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 cultures. Their interdisciplinary practice encompasses performance, writing, and curating, exploring critical debates on gender, public space, and the politics of address.
Jude earned a BA (Hons) in Painting and Printmaking from Glasgow School of Art (2010) and an MFA in Art Writing from Goldsmiths (2014). They have been deeply involved in several prominent artist-run galleries, including Market Gallery and The Mutual, and served as an Associate Programmer at David Dale Gallery, where they curated innovative performance-led projects.
Alongside their artistic practice, Jude has contributed to academia as a Visiting Artist on the MLitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) program at Glasgow School of Art, sharing their expertise in performance and art writing with emerging curators. Their work reflects a commitment to fostering inclusive and experimental spaces for creative practice and dialogue.
Research interests
- Methods of queer-feminist performance
- The rehearsal-as-form
- Interdisciplinary writing
- Cross-historical feminist perspectives
- DIY and artist-run spaces
I teach research-based modules in the School of Art, focusing on artistic practice.
Research
Research
I use performance and writing to explore contemporary debates on gender, public space, and the politics of address. My work as a visual artist, academic, and curator focuses on expanding the notion of "live address" through performance and artist publications. Most recently, At Practice (2019-2023) at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, served as a platform for rehearsing and delivering written texts. In 2020, I was awarded a practice-based PhD from Edinburgh College of Art, supervised by Maria Fusco and Graham Fagen. My thesis, Mouthwork: Public Address & Laboured Expression, developed original performance methods to challenge white supremacist and masculinist traditions of Western oratory through a feminist, queer, and trans-feminist lens, citing Diane Torr, Karen Finley, and Andrea Fraser.
My work has been supported by public funding, allowing me to develop performance, curating, and publishing as interconnected practices. I am currently guest-editing a special issue of The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (Intellect), titled No Mere Will to Mastery. This issue examines how artistic practices can subvert traditional orthodoxies of public address, drawing on Adrienne Rich’s poem Transcendental Etude to envision new feminist modes of creative production with "resistant political value."
I am also developing a project that reimagines the 17th-century British Ranters through anarcho-feminist mysticism, feminist performance, and anti-fascist black metal, resulting in performances, video works, and drawings.
