Nicky Coutts
Nicky Coutts
- Research Lead, School of Fine Art
- Job Title
- Research Lead, School of Fine Art
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- UNSPECIFIED
- N.Coutts@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- School of Fine Art The Glasgow School of Art Stow Building | G4 9LL
- Country
- Scotland
Biography
Dr Nicky Coutts is an artist, researcher and writer. She is currently Research Lead in the School of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art having been PGR Research Lead, MRes Pathway Leader and Research Tutor in the School of Fine Art and Humanities at the Royal College of Art (2012-2022). She completed a PhD in Photography at the RCA in 2001 and was an Associate Lecturer in MA Photography at LCC (2011-2016), Postdoctoral Fellow at Middlesex University (2004-2009), Commissioning Editor of Make, Magazine of Womens’ Art (1998-2000) and Associate Editor of Coil, Journal of the Moving Image (1997-2001).
Her research focuses on the pressures that humans place on species diversity and the environment, and the role of cross-species interactions in finding a way to better interact and live. Through a writing and multi-disciplinary visual practice, she explores how ‘language’ is often used to sustain the status quo and
Latest Additions
- Coutts, Nicky (2026) Traumatic Objects: Interspecies Fabulatory practice. Parse (23). ISSN 2002-0953
- Coutts, Nicky (2025) Thin.
- Coutts, Nicky and Rogers, Henry, eds. (2023) Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. Article Press, Glasgow.
- Šik, Becky (2023) Mercury (Queereal Dissemination) in Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. In: Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. Article Press Glasgow.
- Hodson, Elizabeth (2023) Reflections on Joining. In: Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. Article Press, Glasgow.
- Hannah, Michelle (2023) 'Screentime'. In: Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.
- Topping, Jane (2023) A Nebulous Void and Null. In: Queereal Secretions. Article Press, Glasgow, pp. 72-79. ISBN 9781873352137
- Coutts, Nicky, Rogers, Henry, Hannah, Michelle, Hodson, Elizabeth, Murray, Liz, Šik, Becky, Topping, Jane, McKee, Francis and McGilvary, Owain (2023) Queereal Secretions. Annex Gallery, Stow Building, The Glasgow School of Art, 13 November - 15 December 2023
- McKee, Francis (2023) Skirting the event horizon. In: Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. Article Press, Glasgow.
- Coutts, Nicky (2023) The Concretian Stone. In: Queereal Sectretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. Article Press, The Glasgow School of Art, pp. 144-151.
