Prof. Antonia Payne
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Prof Antonia Payne is currently Head of the Institute of Humanities & Creative Arts at the University of Worcester. From 2005-2008, she was Dean of Research at Dartington College of Arts in Devon. As Director of Birmingham's Ikon Gallery throughout the 1980s she was responsible for programming one of the UK's premier contemporary art spaces. In the '90s, she worked as an independent curator, writer and researcher alongside her work, over six years, as a founder-contributor to The Laboratory research project at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford, where she developed research projects with artists. From 2001-2005, she was Associate Dean (Research & Academic Development) in the School of Art & Design at the University of Wolverhampton. From 2007-2009 she chaired the Arts & Humanities Research Council's Peer Review Panel 2: Visual Arts & Media. Her inaugural professorial lecture 'Vital Signs: Art Being Knowing' was given at Worcester in November.
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Prof Antonia Payne is currently Head of the Institute of Humanities & Creative Arts at the University of Worcester. From 2005-2008, she was Dean of Research at Dartington College of Arts in Devon. As Director of Birmingham's Ikon Gallery throughout the 1980s she was responsible for programming one of the UK's premier contemporary art spaces. In the '90s, she worked as an independent curator, writer and researcher alongside her work, over six years, as a founder-contributor to The Laboratory research project at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford, where she developed research projects with artists. From 2001-2005, she was Associate Dean (Research & Academic Development) in the School of Art & Design at the University of Wolverhampton. From 2007-2009 she chaired the Arts & Humanities Research Council's Peer Review Panel 2: Visual Arts & Media. Her inaugural professorial lecture 'Vital Signs: Art Being Knowing' was given at Worcester in November.





