Dr James Bowen is a teacher and practice-based researcher of Fine Art specialising in Drawing. James is a convenor of the Drawing Research Community of Practice at Loughborough University.
In 2023, James Bowen completed his PhD at Loughborough University titled 'Voice as a Tool for Drawing'. Through this research James explored a series of vocalisation acts through a range of technologies and environments. This research was underpinned by a hypothesis that by investigating voice as a drawing tool the ambiguity inherent in drawing could be problematised further through the instability and potential of voice in its contingent non-graphic traces. Through his ongoing research, James continues to investigate the intersection of drawing and sound.
ACC111 Dissertation
James welcomes applications for PhD researchers in the field of Fine Art with an emphasis on drawing, installation, and/or moving image.
Current PhD supervisions:
- Yige Bao: Posthuman Female Reproduction and the Imagination of Alterity— Starting from the Narrative of the ‘Daughter Country’ in Journey to the West (Practice-based)
- Jingyuan Lin: A Practice-Based Investigation of Social Anxiety through Soft Materials
- Gordon Dalton: Painting the Solastalgic Coast: Art, Place and Environmental Witness on the North East Coast