Conor Kelly is an artist, lecturer and emergent researcher. He is currently Programme Leader and Lecturer on the International Foundation programme at the Glasgow School of Art. He previously led the postgraduate elective ‘Drawing as Research’, a practice-led cross-disciplinary course exploring drawing as a system of thinking and tool for research. His research spans a range of practices within contemporary fine art (including painting, sculpture, installation art, text and the moving image) and explores encounters with the natural world and how the constituent agents and sites of these encounters are traced through the natural sciences and material culture.

Current research interests include human/animal encounters, the exploration of the animal as metaphor, the ‘anthropomorphic embrace’ within contemporary fine art practice and notions of alterity in the representation of animal and plant lives.

Previous projects have explored the disruption of dominant representational systems and themes of alterity through fine art painting, sculpture and