Dr Jude Browning
Job title:
Teaching Fellow in Contemporary Art Theory
Biography
Dr Jude Browning (she/they) is an artist and researcher specialising in contemporary art, with a focus on queer-feminist creative practice. Their interdisciplinary practice encompasses performance, writing and curating, exploring critical debates around gender, public space, language and the politics of address.
Jude holds a BA (Hons) in Painting and Printmaking from Glasgow School of Art and an MFA in Art Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is actively involved in Glasgow’s artist-run sector, serving on the board of Market Gallery and previously working as Associate Programmer at David Dale Gallery. In this role, Jude curated At Practise and developed a range of funded, performance-led projects that focused on the rehearsal as a form.
Jude is a Teaching Fellow in Contemporary Art Theory at Edinburgh College of Art, contributing to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the BA (Hons) and MA. They lead the studio-based Body as Artistic Material elective, which explores embodied knowledge and lived experience as resources for artistic research and methods of inquiry. Jude has also been a Visiting Artist on the MLitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) programme at Glasgow School of Art, sharing her expertise in performance and art writing with emerging curators.
Jude’s editorial work includes guest editing for journals published by Intellect, as well as artist-led publishing. They are currently developing a solo exhibition with Royal Flux in Oslo, alongside a forthcoming publication and exhibition with Lunchtime, Glasgow. In 2025, she delivered a solo show with 16 Collective (Glasgow) and has an adjacent continuing collaborative practice with artist Corin Sworn. Recent projects include work with Jupiter Art Land, Hospitalfield House, Glasgow Women’s Library, The Women’s Art Collection (Cambridge) and Sky Will Learn Sky, curated by Deep Strawberry and published by Cone Shape Top Imprint (San Francisco).
Research interests
- Interdisciplinary performance
- Queer-feminist practices & theory
- Artist-led curating & exhibiting
- Writing & publishing as artistic practice
- Cross-historical research methods
I teach across research and practical modules for Under and Postgraduate students in the School of Art.
Research
Research
My research examines the intersections of performance, writing and visual culture, with a particular focus on gender, public space and the politics of address. Working across drawing, writing, live performance and curating, I investigate how artistic practice can challenge dominant conventions of speech and authorship, and how historical narratives are reworked through embodied forms of expression, reiteration and language drift.
My practice-based PhD, “Mouthwork: Public Address & Laboured Expression” (Edinburgh College of Art, 2020), was principally supervised by Maria Fusco and Graham Fagen. The research developed performance methods for challenging white supremacist and masculinist traditions of Western oratory through feminist, queer and transfeminist perspectives. These concerns have shaped my subsequent artistic and curatorial work, including At Practise (2019–2023) at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, and Ranters, my 2025 solo exhibition at 16 Collective, which drew on 17-century radicalism, political theology, pulpit oratory and the vocal techniques of black metal.
My current research carries this engagement with recalcitrant histories into new work on absence and historical transmission, through the figure of Mary Magdalen. The work is currently being shaped by two projects; a solo exhibition of new drawings and a performance with Royal Flux in Oslo, and, with Lunchtime in Glasgow, a series of drawings, costume and new performance alongside a publication that brings together Oslo and Glasgow-based artists. Working across forms, I look for routes to written and enunciated expression where the historical record might mis-speak, slip or reveal supposed inarticulacies.
Writing and publishing are also forms of critical inquiry in my practice. I guest-edited JAWS (Journal of Arts Writing by Students) 11.2, published in September 2026, and am currently guest-editing “No Mere Will to Mastery”, a special issue on feminist practice for the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, forthcoming in March 2027. Across these forms, interdisciplinary method becomes a way of asking who is addressed, and who is deemed credible, on the ledger of history.
