Craig Richardson is a graduate of the School of Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art, which was coincidently his local art college, and joined Northumbria University in 2011 having worked at Glasgow, the University of Derby and Oxford Brookes University. At Oxford Brookes he held various posts including Fine Art Research Director and later Director of the School of Arts and Humanities Post-Graduate Taught Programmes. British art is his enduring fascination. He has written on contemporary art concerned with the legacy of minimal and conceptual art, with prominent publications on Scottish art and has exhibited his own work widely including New York, London and Dusseldorf. Periodically he acts as a curator and has served on selection panels as an AHRC Peer Reviewer. He has published in 'Visual Culture in Britain, Map' magazine, and 'The Journal of Visual Culture'. Recent catalogue essays include texts on the artists Tracey MacKenna, Wong Hoy Cheong, and Christine Borland. Notable publications include 'Face On: Photography as Social Exchange' (with Mark Durden) and 'Scottish Art since 1960 - Historical Reflections in Contemporary Overviews' (Ashgate, January 2011).
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