Dr Jacqueline Taylor
Jacqueline Taylor is an artist, writer, researcher and educator. She is the doctoral education lead for the faculty of Arts, Design and Media where she develops and delivers research training for PhD researchers. Her teaching specialism lies in the area of practice research and she has presented, taught and published widely on the subject both across the UK and abroad.
Jacqueline鈥檚 research traverses the fields of painting, art writing and performance. Located at the intersection of aesthetic practice and poetics, her research explores the ways in which non-representational art practices signify and enable meaning-making. Alongside publications in these fields, Jacqueline develops and performs her research in the form of 鈥榟ybrid鈥� outputs that bring together academic and artistic discourses. She is also a practising artist and has exhibited globally, alongside art writing and other artistic projects.
Current Activity
- Doctoral Education Lead, Faculty of Arts, Design & Media
- Researcher and PhD supervisor, School of Art
Areas of Expertise
- Painting
- Non-representation and aesthetic practice
- Art and language, signification, poetics
- Affect, materiality, performativity, encounter
- French post-structuralist theory, notably Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray, Barthes and Derrida
- Subjectivity, difference and the feminine
- Feminism and postfeminism in art practice
- Practice-led research in the arts
Qualifications
- PhD Fine Art, writing//painting; l鈥櫭ヽriture feminine and difference in the making, 2013, 探花直播
- PGCE Post-Compulsory Education, 2010, Staffordshire University
- PGCert in Research Practice (Arts, Design & Media), 2010, 探花直播
- MA Fine Art, 2007, 探花直播
- BA Hons Fine Art, 2005, Coventry University
Memberships
- Society for Artistic Research
- UK Council for Graduate Education
- Vitae
Teaching
Current teaching
- PGCert in Research Practice - Arts, Design & Media
- The PGR Studio - Arts, Design & Media doctoral training programme
Research
Jacqueline鈥檚 research examines the poetic potential of art and the ways that it functions as a signifying practice. She is particularly interested in how we make meaning from non-representational aesthetic practices that do not cohere with or are othered from normative modalities of communication and language. Drawing on the work of French post-structuralist theorists such as Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva and Barthes, she is interested in the interrelationship between painting and language, although her research extends to other artforms, and their materialities, including art writing, dance and performance.
Jacqueline鈥檚 research also explores theory/practice, writing/making, text/artwork and form/content relations in artistic research and their epistemological dimensions. Her research often deliberately blurs the boundaries between these areas, taking the form of alternative 鈥榟ybrid鈥� academic and creative forms such as such as paint-sculpt-stallations, text-stallations, book-paintings, performance-texts and painting poems.
Jacqueline鈥檚 research also extends to doctoral pedagogies in the arts, with a particular focus on performativity, para-academia and doctoral praxis. She is currently Co-Investigator (Routes Out) for 鈥楾hat鈥檚 Me!: Eliminating barriers to postgraduate research study in the West Midlands鈥� (拢1.3m, funded by UKRI and the Office for Students)
Postgraduate Supervision
Current PhD supervision:
- Joanna Callaghan - Wild Materialities: Sculptural Form as an Embodiment of Relationship and Knowledge of the Natural World
- Niamh Seana Meehan 鈥� Performativity, Embodiment and Encounter: Devising a new Performance Art Language through the work of Samuel Beckett
- Samuel Underwood - Exploring the music making and performance affordances of ams, a new acoustic modular musical machine, featuring a human agent [Midlands4Cities]
- Wenjuan Lu - The In/Visible Expression of Perception: Self-Portraits in Everyday Moments of Contemporary China
- Yazmin Boyle - Unknowing, becoming and in/betweenness: towards new material space(s) for women* in sculptural art practice.鈥�
Completed PhD projects:
- Harriet Carter - Beyond Transposition? Exploring metaphysicality in birdsong and Olivier Messiaen鈥檚 Catalogue d鈥檕iseaux through painting practice [Midlands3Cities]
- Khulod Albugami - Al-Sadu as a Way of Understanding the Sociospatial Practices of Contemporary Art by Saudi Women
- Sally Bailey - Locating a Space of Exchange: re-imagining the liminal in contemporary painting practice
- Stuart Mugridge - -Becoming-#Langscape- [fold here] intra-rupting landscape, language and the creative act [Midlands3Cities]
- Rebecca Howson - The Printing Types: A practice-based study of design principles in experimental letterpress.
Publications
Publications:
- Boultwood A. Taylor J. and Vaughan S.听(2015) 鈥�The Importance of Coffee:听Peer Mentoring to support PGRs and ECRs in Art & Design鈥�, Vitae Occasional Papers: Research careers and cultures, 2: 15-20
- Taylor J. (2013) 鈥楥ollisions, Slippages and Getting Lost鈥�,听in: Rogers H. (Ed)听I See What You鈥檙e Saying: The Materialisation of Words in Contemporary Art, 探花直播: ARTicle Press, 31-40
- Taylor J. (2016) Creative, collaborative and growth-oriented: peer mentoring as a space of possibility for doctoral students, Institutional case study, Vitae online resources
- Taylor J. (2019) 鈥楧iscourses of Dissonance: Enabling sites of praxis and practice amongst Arts, Design & Media doctoral study鈥� in: Breeze M, Costa C. and Taylor Y. (Eds) Time and Space in the Neoliberal University: Futures and fractures in higher education, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 191-220
- Taylor J. (2014)听鈥�From 鈥榦r鈥� to 鈥榓nd鈥�: L鈥櫭ヽriture feminine as a methodological approach in Fine Art research鈥�, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: an International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 13(3): 305-313.
- Taylor J. (2011) 鈥楲鈥櫭ヽriture f茅minine: An Alternative Space In-between鈥�, Desearch: Journal of Art & Contemporary Culture, 1, Spring/Summer
- Taylor J. (2024) 鈥楶ainterly poetics and difference in the making鈥� in: Burchill L. and Hill R. (Eds) Topologies of Sexual Difference in Philosophy and Art After Irigaray, New York: SUNY Press [In Press]
- Taylor J. (2014) 鈥楶hoebe Davies: Influences鈥�, This is Tomorrow: Contemporary Art Magazine [commissioned by Fierce Festival]
- Taylor J. (2018) 鈥楻esearch-practice-pedagogy: establishing new topologies of doctoral research in the arts鈥� in: Prior R. (Ed)听Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching: Multidisciplinary approaches across the arts, London: Intellect, 91-108
- Taylor J. (2018)听鈥�Thinking difference differently: an exploration of l鈥櫭ヽriture feminine, Women鈥檚 Art Practice and Postfeminism鈥�, L鈥橢sprit Cre虂ateur: The International Journal of French and Francophone Studies, 58 (2): 41-55
- Taylor, J. (2017) 鈥楽obre colisiones, deslizamientos y sentirse Perdida鈥�, in: Post(s), Colegio de Comunicaci贸n y Artes Contempor谩neas (COCOA), 94-105 [translated into Spanish from 鈥楥ollisions, Slippages and Getting Lost鈥�, originally published in: Rogers H. (Ed) I See What You鈥檙e Saying: The Materialisation of Words in Contemporary Art]
- Taylor J. (2021) 鈥楽ubversive Spaces, Embodied Places and Mentoring as Onto-Epistemology鈥� in: Ahmet A. and Trebing D. Mentoring and Communication: Theories and Practices, New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 227-248
- Taylor J. and Vaughan S. (2016) 鈥楢 different practice? Professional Identity and Doctoral Education in Art & Design鈥�, in: Storey V. A. (Ed)听International Perspectives on Designing Professional Practice Doctorates: Applying the Critical Friends Approach to the EdD and Beyond, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 127-142
- Taylor J. and Vaughan S.听(2015) 鈥�The same but different: researching and enhancing PGR employability and experience in Art & Design鈥�, Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership & Change, 1 (1): 89-105
Hybrid writing, performance and creative work:
- Taylor, J. (2023) 鈥楶ush-Pull (or Neurodivergent adventures in writing and in-betweenness)鈥� durational art writing for DX: Diagnosis and Writing curated and edited by Eva Aldea and Gareth Farmer [access here: https://www.dxandwriting.com/push-pull-final]
- Taylor, J. Praxis Para-dox, multi-modal exposition, Research Catalogue (2021) [: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1084244/1113527]
- Taylor J. (Editor) Otherlands, multi-modal exposition, Research Catalogue (2020) [: ]
- 鈥榃here meaning collapses鈥�, performance-lecture for Imagining the Body in France and the Francophone World, University of 探花直播 (2018)
- 鈥楤odies-in-process: intersubjective (inter)materialities鈥�, performance-paper as part of The Kristeva Circle, University of Memphis, USA (2015)
- 鈥�Alchemy of desire: poetic language, jouissance and material practice鈥�, performance-paper for Twice Upon a Time: Alchemy, Magic and the Transubstantiation of the Senses, the Centre for Fine Art Research, 探花直播 School of Art (2014)
- 鈥榃riting making (or making writing)鈥�, performance-paper for Beyond Text: Making and unmaking text across performance practices and theories, Centre for Creative Collaboration, London; AHRC Beyond Text programme in association with University of London (2011)
Selected exhibitions and performances:
- Untold, Platforms festival at the Centre for Culture, Athens, group exhibition co-curated with Jackie Berridge (2017)
- 鈥業t doesn鈥檛 have to be straightforward鈥�, performed with Caroline Horton at听InDialogue: an International symposium interrogating how artists and researchers use dialogue in practice, Nottingham Contemporary (2016)
- 鈥楻earrangements鈥�, performed with Caroline Horton at听Compass Festival Leeds, Leeds Beckett University (2016)
- f generation: feminism, art, progressions, curated by Veronica Caven Aldous, Dr Juliette Peters and Caroline Phillips, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2015)
- Otherlands, two-person exhibition with Georgia MacGuire, University of Memphis, USA (2015)
- Topologies of Sexual Difference, curated by Caroline Phillips, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2014)
Selected conference contributions:
- 鈥楧isrupting the Doctorate: Building a Postgraduate Research Culture in the Arts鈥�, Researcher Education and Development Scholarship Conference, University of Leeds (online), co-authored with Dr Oliver Carter and Dr Sian Vaughan (2021)
- 鈥榃hat the praxis?鈥� keynote for Practice as research: reconciling action and review, University of Gloucester (2018)
- 鈥楧islocated communities? Bringing together researcher developer, PGR and supervisor communities鈥�,听UKCGE Annual conference, Bristol, co-authored with S Vaughan (2018)
- 鈥楢 Creatively Critical Collective鈥�,鈥�A creatively critical collective: establishing an Arts, Design & Media doctoral community鈥�,听UKCGE Annual conference, Bristol, co-authored with E Bettison and H Hussain (2018)
- 鈥楾he PGR Studio: provocative pedagogy and other stuff鈥�,听PressED Twitter conference (2018)
Links and Social Media
- 奥别产蝉颈迟别:听
- 罢飞颈迟迟别谤:听听