Dr Nick Cass

Profile

I am an artist and lecturer. I have extensive exhibiting and teaching experience in a wide range of contexts. I have worked for Leeds Museums and Galleries and the Royal Armouries as an Education Officer; I have also worked freelance for a variety of museums in the north of England including Tate Gallery Liverpool, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry and Hull Museums. Prior to teaching at the University of Leeds, I was a Lecturer in Visual Communication at Leeds Arts University.

My art practice inhabits a perceptual space between sculpture and collage, and draws influence from both traditional printmaking techniques and contemporary technologies.

Responsibilities

• Director of Student Education

Research interests

My primary interest lies at the conjunction of museums, heritage and contemporary art practice; this stems from my interdisciplinary background as an artist and museum education officer.

• Mapping contemporary art in the heritage experience: Creation, Consumption and Exchange

Qualifications

• PhD Museum Studies
• MA Contemporary Art Practice
• PGCE Junior Education
• BA Fine Art

Student education

My teaching is largely focussed around Art Gallery and Museum Studies, teaching particularly around my interest in the relationship between contemporary art practice and ways in which this intersects with heritage.

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage

Current postgraduate researchers

• Lorna Johnson
• Victoria Vargas-Downing.
• Layla Khoo