Lecturer in Fine Art Full Time

City, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Newcastle University

Lecturer in Fine Art

Requisition ID: 25283

Contract Type: Open Ended

Working Pattern: Part Time

Salary: £38,474 to £43,155 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 30 April 2023.

The Role

Are you a contemporary artist working with an exciting practice with the drive and enthusiasm to teach at one of the UK’s best art schools? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We have an exciting opportunity for a practising visual artist to join us as a Lecturer in Fine Art. You will join our vibrant community and teach into our BA and MFA Fine Art programmes. We particularly welcome applications from artists whose primary creative practice involves working with moving image, performance or film.

You should have a strong profile of creative achievement commensurate with your career stage and dynamic plans for your development. You should be an enthusiast for innovative and inclusive approaches to the teaching of Fine Art studio practice and be able to work with students working across a broad range of practices and at different levels.

We welcome applications from artists whose work involves collaborations across disciplines and in partnerships with organisations and individuals beyond academia.

As a member of our dynamic staff team you will:

• conduct research and practice that meets national standards of excellence
• be committed to excellent teaching at all levels of our BA and MFA programmes
• pursue external research funding
• attract research postgraduates from the UK and internationally and contribute to their supervision
• work as a key member of our fine art team, taking on your share of academic roles within the department.

This appointment is a 0.5fte teaching and research post with an anticipated start date of September 2023. The University has developed an Academic Job Summary Guidance document which summarises the range of activities that academic colleagues may be expected to perform.

UK and international artists at all career stages are welcome to apply. We encourage applications from visual artists whose work draws on and reflects the full range of backgrounds, perspectives and diversity of our modern world, and welcome applications from under-represented groups for this opportunity.

In addition to a covering letter and your CV, you should include a weblink to your work or submit visual documentation. Please note that applications will be assessed against the appointment criteria listed below – and you should make clear how you meet all the published criteria for this post.

Further information about Fine Art, our taught programmes and our research, can be found here .

Informal enquiries can be made to Nick Fox, Acting Head of Fine Art,

Fine Art at Newcastle

Fine Art at Newcastle is ranked as one of the best Fine Art Schools in the UK in all the major league tables and in the recent Research Excellence Framework (REF2021). We are a community of staff and students who are artists, curators and art historians. Collectively, our research and practice contribute to a vibrant creative culture and discourse both within the University and in the wide art ecology. This is the foundation for our excellent research-led teaching & studentship. We encourage risk taking, imagination and work that challenges creative orthodoxies. We want our community to make its mark both in the contemporary art world and in wider society and we are committed to engaging a wide public with our work.

Our Fine Art BA is a four-year studio-based programme that encourages creativity, autonomy, and experimentation. Studio staff teach and conduct world-leading research across the visual arts (Fine Art Research at Newcastle). Students are encouraged to decide to develop their own productive relationship between studio practice and historical, curatorial and contextual studies. Professional practice modules, LifeWorkArt, are woven into the undergraduate programme, enabling students to engage directly with the creative eco-system of the region.

The department is base for around 240 undergraduate, 16 postgraduate (MFA) students and 25 PhD students. Fine Art is part of the School of Arts and Cultures

Key Accountabilities

• Contribute to the delivery and development of studio-based modules on the four year Fine Art BA undergraduate course and the two year MFA course
• Maintain an active profile and dynamic trajectory of research, engagement and creative impact
• Contribute to leadership and academic duties involved with the successful running of the Fine Art degree programmes
• Work towards joint supervision of practice-based doctoral research projects

The Person (Essential)

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Broad knowledge of Fine Art practice, processes and methods
• Ability to respond positively to students working across a wide range of art practice
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including those required for pastoral care of home and international students from a variety of academic and social backgrounds
• A track record of practice-led creative research and an outstanding current trajectory commensurate with your career stage and inclusion in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF)
• A track record in research / exhibiting at a national or international level
• Experience of teaching fine art within HE at undergraduate/postgraduate level

Desirable

• Active participation in national networks
• Specialist knowledge, through your practice, of film and/or video, performance or new technologies in the moving image.
• A record of grant applications to grant funders such as the AHRC or ACE
• Experience of collaborative and interdisciplinary research

Attributes and Behaviour

• Enthusiastic and inclusive approach to teaching visual art practice and a commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and widening participation
• Commitment to cross-disciplinary and collaborative teaching
• Commitment to working as part of a team
• Commitment and capacity for contributing to Fine Art research, engagement and impact
• Commitment to developing an academic career, including engaging with academic and leadership roles

Qualifications

• A good Honours degree
• A Master’s degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
• An HE teaching qualification or willingness to study for one

Newcastle is an inclusive global University community where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive Global University which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society. We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all our employees and the communities they represent. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from everybody, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital status/civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, as well as being open to flexible working practices.

The University holds a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. The University is also a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.