Dr Alice Myers is a Lecturer in Media Practice in the Media, Communication and Performing Arts Division.
- Overview
- Research Interests
- Teaching & Learning
Alice is a photographer, researcher and participatory artist. She is interested in conversations and negotiations surrounding the photographic moment, and how these interactions sit within wider systems of power. Her practice-based PhD at Glasgow School of Art involved working with incarcerated people to imagine a polyvocal prison image archive, resulting in an exhibition and publication (The Jessiefield Collection). She has worked in schools, border zones, protest camps and, most recently, prisons.
Previously, Alice taught at Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Cumbria, and Glasgow School of Art. Exhibitions include Impressions Gallery, The Photographers Gallery, Jerwood Space and BALTIC, with international exhibitions in Sardinia, Sweden and Slovenia.
Awards include the Jerwood Award and the IdeasTap/Magnum Photography Award. Her photobook, Nothing Is Impossible Under the Sun was shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award.
Alice's practice-based research engages with photography as dialogue. She is interested in conversations and negotiations surrounding the photographic moment, and how these interactions sit within wider systems of power. Her work explores the relationship between ethics and aesthetics and how social interaction surfaces aesthetically.
Active Research Interests:
- Photography
- Collaborative methods
- Criminal Justice
- Participatory arts
- Ethics & Aesthetics
- Power
- Archives & Memory
Alice teaches across practical and theoretical undergraduate and postgraduate modules, including photography, media & creative industries and participatory practice.
