AD Issue 44

Issue 44

By: Edited by Sophie Leach, with guest editor Dr Abbie Cairns

AD is NSEAD members magazine and poster. Members and non-members can order copies using the order form on AD's homepage.

ISSN 2046-3138

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Member Price £8.95

Educator - Artist - Researcher special issue. This issue of AD emerged from a desire to better understand the layered identities and practices of educators, artists, researchers (EARs).

Cover image: Evonne with an ‘E’ (2023), polished bronze, ‘To Be Held’ at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate © Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark

Poster: Black Renaissance (2024), Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, Alabama © MTArt Agency/ Equal Justice Initiative/ Vasha Hunt/The Associated Press

In conversation

Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark and Kevin Dalton-Johnson

Interview

Michele Gregson, CEO & general secretary of NSEAD, talks to Andy Ash, President of NSEAD 2025-26

Comment

Srinivas Surti | Overlap

Teresa Smith | Leaning into liminality

Features

Dr Abbie Cairns | Lend me an EAR

Professor Sam Broadhead | Identity and connection sustained by artistic research values

Frances Akinde | How do we make space?

Dr Carol Wild | Ways of simply being with art, craft and design

Kath Tindale | Why would you bother?

Chris Francis | EAR mapping

Dr Rachel Payne | Artist, teacher, researcher and the spaces in-between

Ronnie Houselander-Cook | The beginner’s guide to escapology

In focus

Kaytie Holdstock, Catherine Ross, Miranda Matthews, Toby Saville & Anne Reardon-James | Educator, artist, researcher