About
I am Chair of Contemporary Art Practice & Theory in The University of Edinburgh and Programme Director of MA Contemporary Art Theory, Edinburgh College of Art.
My work involves inventing postdisciplinary methods to parasite the field of contemporary art. It is a pour of historical, critical, materialist and fictional approaches to writing charged and torn with curatorial, paragogical and artistic work. In the pursuit of para, ‘pata and psuedo-disciplinary methods, I frequently work collaboratively, adopting shared avatars that have interpretive flexibility.
As a member of the International Art Critics Association, I am a critic for many international art publications, write for literary and political magazines, the popular press, television, commissioned monographs and artwriting publications and have curated exhibitions as part of international biennials as well as numerous projects at artist-led organisations. Additionally, I continue to conduct research on Contemporary Art in Britain since the 1970s. Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Why is there only one Monopolies Commission? British Art and its Critics in the Late 1970s), History of Art, The University of Glasgow.
Master of Arts (Honours) History of Art, First Class. Work Shared in CORE
Visual art
Other Publications
Selected Publications:
Mulholland, N. & Hogg, N. pan-pan New York City: Punctum, 2021
Mulholland, N. Re-imagining the Art School: Paragogy & Artistic Learning, London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Creativity, Education and the Arts), Nov. 2019
Mulholland, N., Shift/Work: Speculations in Leap into Action: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Art & Design Education. Campbell, L. (ed.). New York: Peter Lang, p. 21-26; 39-40; 59-60 9 p. Dec. 2019.
Mulholland, N. in medias res: nonmodern art, postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 2019.
Mulholland, N., Jackson, D. & Brown, D. Artists Running: 50 Years of Scottish Cultural Devolution May 2018 In : Visual Culture in Britain. 19, 1
Mulholland, N. The Unlearning Organisation, in Artists in the City: SPACE in ’68 and Beyond. Harding, A. (ed.)., London March 2018
Mulholland, N. Angus MacInnes: The Four Seasons commissioned and published by Hour Projects, hourprojects.info Rådmandsgade 25, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark. 2014.
Mulholland, N. & Hogg, N. thN Lng folk 2go: Investigating Future Premoderns™, New York City: Punctum, 2013
Mulholland N. 18 Jun 2013 ‘Shift Happens: Developing Participatory Workshop Models for Educating Contemporary Artists’ Journal of Artistic Research, Issue 3, 2013. jar-online.net, unpaginated.
Mulholland, N. The Cultural Devolution: British Art in the Late Twentieth Century, Ashgate, 2003 and Routledge 2017 Memberships
Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (Paris)
International Association for the Scholarship of Learning & Teaching
Society for Artistic Research, Zürich
Council for Higher Education in Art & Design
National Association for Fine Art Education
European League of Institutes of the Arts
Fellow of Creative & Cultural Skills Scotland
Higher Education Academy Academic Associate
