Fiona MacLaren

Job responsibilities

Fiona teaches critical and visual practice across the undergraduate photography programme.

Research Centre or Group

Photography
Audio Visual Performance

Research, scholarly and professional interests

Fiona’s research interests are concerned with the inter-media exchange between photography, sound, installation and the moving image. This plurality of practice is harnessed to critically examine three predominant fields of inquiry; the dialectics of memory, the discourse of space & place, aftermath and the post conflict condition.

The contextual focus of her research and practice includes:

• Sites of memory: political instrumentality in the construction & representation of the past
• Spatial transformation and the parameters of place: identity, belonging and re-invention
• Hierarchy of memory: intervention, exclusion & control in the post conflict landscape
• Spatial-temporal encounter of the contemplative & meditative, historical & memorial, private & interior; translation & affect in representation

Recent research has focused on Northern Ireland and considers the role and critical capacity of visual art as it relates to the transition of reconciliation & memorialisation.

Current projects

Fiona is currently working on a sound and video work centred on a series of European ‘sites’ of memory beginning with the Constant Light Installation & Memorial Garden in Omagh.

Information for prospective research students

Students are welcomed with an interest in the areas outlined above or related fields of inquiry.

Current research supervision engages themes of: identity, belonging and narratives of place.