John Atkin is interested in supervising PhD students interested in Public Art and the Built Environment. He is currently working with four PhD students on the following topics.

Stefania Laccu

The research is practice-based, involving the fields of fine art; art technology; and art & sciences. It employs the visual strategies and methodologies of quantum mechanics simulations of particle behaviours and interactions, as a creative framework for reflecting on how science describes and formulate theories on the quantum realm, elaborating new knowledge.

Xiao Fang

The Academic Research of Oriental and Western Neo-Expressionist Print Forms with Various Materials and Painting Languages

The further study of Oriental and Western Neo-Expressionism and blending artistic features of the two genres. Using a variety of techniques in plate-making prints as well as composite materials, and fused by painting language to eventually integrate modern and contemporary Chinese and Western painting with the concept of the installation.

Graham Hudson

Re-(Body)building the Eugen Sandow Sculpture

The Eugen Sandow Sculpture is in the archive of The Natural History Museum. It was commissioned in 1901, after three months on display, it was mothballed following a row of museum standards. The project explores the sculpture, from production to conservation, it is interdisciplinary within the fields of contemporary fine art practice, theatre, museum studies, sculpture, health and sports science.

Lulu Ao

The topic of my Ph.D. research is the interaction of visuality and textuality in art, focusing on the use of written language in Post-Conceptual Text Art. It encompasses literary, linguistic, philosophical, communicative, sociological, and cultural studies; particularly, the ways in which words interact with images and vice versa. In other words, it explores the boundary between words and images. This project includes interviews for discourse analysis, and concludes with an interdisciplinary practice-based work.