Dr Laura Guy
Dr Laura Guy
- PhD Coordinator for Fine Art
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2996-4423- Professional Title
- Reader in Gender, Sexuality and Culture
- Job Title
- PhD Coordinator for Fine Art
- School or Academic Area
- School of Fine Art
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Fine Art
- L.Guy@gsa.ac.uk
- Contact Number
- +44 (0)141 353 4568
- Professional Address
- Stow Building 64 Shamrock St Glasgow G4 9JZ
Biography
Laura Guy is a Reader in Gender, Sexuality and Culture at the Glasgow School of Art, where she has worked since 2015. Before joining the GSA, Laura held teaching positions at Goldsmiths, University of London, University of the Creative Arts, and Manchester School of Art. She was awarded her PhD from the Manchester Institute of Research in Art and Design in 2016 and undertook postdoctoral research from 2016-18 at University of Edinburgh. From 2018-21, she was Research Excellence Fellow in Art History at Newcastle University. In 2019-20, she was the Honorary Fellow in Contemporary Art Theory and Curating at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2022, she was Affiliate Fellow in Art History and Critical Studies at the ICI, Berlin. Laura's research has been published widely and supported by various funding bodies including the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Terra Foundation for American Art and the Carnegie Trust.
Research Interests
Feminist and queer print and image cultures since the 1960s; the relationships between feminist and queer activism and cultural production; cultural infrastructure and civic and public engagement; creative and community-led approaches to archiving.
Grants
Preserving Queer Photography: Making and Maintaining Community-led Infrastructures of Care (2026-28)
Lead applicant: Laura Guy, Glasgow School of Art
Co-leads: Fiona Anderson, Newcastle University; Cole Collins, Glasgow School of Art
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh. Total award: £9143
Remapping the City of Culture through Grassroots LGBT Cultural Production (2023-24).
Principle Investigator: Laura Guy, Glasgow School of Art
Funder: Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant. Total award: £8916
Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023-24)
Academic lead/mentor to Dr Marcus Jack, awarded to Glasgow School of Art.
Funder: Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities. Total award: £84,935
PGR Supervision Interests
I am not currently accepting candidates for PhD supervision
Current PGR Students
Giulia Astesani, PhD by practice 'Between ‘We’ and ‘I’: Autotextual, Performative, and Collaborative Approaches to Queer and Feminist Knowledge and History' (primary supervisor)
Yiyang Chen, PhD by practice 'Becoming Monstrous: Queer Feminist Reimagination of Archives, Bodies, and Spaces' (primary supervisor)
Michael Collazo, PhD by practice 'Enduring Grief: The Use of Queer Objectivism through Drawing' (primary supervisor)
Brooke Hailey Hoffert, PhD by thesis, 'Temporal Transitions: Trans* Temporality Explored Through Contemporary Art and the Curatorial' (co-supervisor)
Sing Hang Tam, PhD by thesis 'The Reimagining of Democracy and Nationhood in Postcolonial Hong Kong Activism' (acting primary supervisor)
Former PGR Students
Cevahir Özdoğan, PhD by practice 'Un-digging Space Tumulus: Multi-Sensory Field Notes on Queer Nature Embodiment', 2021-2025 (co-supervisor).
Teaching
Research Degrees Induction and Training Programme
Practice as Research for postgraduate programmes in Fine Art
Fine Art Critical Studies (FACS) Stage 4 - Critical Writing
Latest Additions
- Macias, Stacy, Landberg, Topiary, Harker, Jaime Lynn, Vaccaro, Jeanne and Guy, Laura, eds. (2025) Special issue: Journal of Lesbian Studies: The Dyke 90s. Taylor & Francis.
- Guy, Laura, Anderson, Fiona, Dunster, Flora and Gordon, Theo, eds. (2025) Special Issue: British Art Studies: Queer Art in Britain Since the 1980s. British Art Studies, 1 (27). Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Yale Center for British Art.
- Guy, Laura and Smyth, Cherry (2025) Correspondences and Fractures: Lesbians Talk Queer Formations. British Art Studies: Queer British Art Since the 1980s, 1 (27). ISSN 2058-5462
- Anderson, Fiona, Dunster, Flora, Gordon, Theo and Guy, Laura (2025) Introduction: Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s. British Art Studies: Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s, 27. ISSN 2058-5462
- Guy, Laura and Gordon, Theo (2025) Instituting Queer Art in Britain. British Art Studies: Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s (27). ISSN 2058-5462
- Guy, Laura (2025) Contribution in Practice. In: Challenging Institutionalization: A Propositional Toolkit for Doing Supervision of Artistic and Practice-Based Research. The Contemporary Condition . Sternberg, London, pp. 31-36. ISBN 9781915609625
- Guy, Laura and Grainger, Steven (2025) Imagining a City. Common Guild, 27 February - 27 March
- Guy, Laura (2024) The Queer Work of Photography / La fotografía como trabajo queer. Exit (96). pp. 7-15. ISSN 1577-2721
- Davis, Glyn Peter and Guy, Laura, eds. (2022) Queer Print in Europe. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London. ISBN 9781350158665
- Raha, Nat (2022) Queer Memory in (re)constituting the trans lesbian 1970s in the UK. In: Queer Print in Europe. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 197-217. ISBN 9781350158665
