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Jo Miller

Jo Miller
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Senior Lecturer

Jo Miller is an artist, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Course Director for the BA (Hons) Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art. Working across moving image, sound, text and installation, her practice explores memory, subjectivity, identity and representation, with a particular interest in language and the ways in which meaning is constructed. Her work considers how words, images and narratives mediate experience and shape the ways we access, interpret and make sense of the world.

Her current practice-based research engages with the archive and counter-archive as sites of enquiry and knowledge production. Through moving image, sound, text and installation, she considers how absence, fragmentation and overlooked or marginalised histories might be re-read, reconfigured and made visible through contemporary art practice.

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Faculty:
Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Location:
Cambridge
Areas of Expertise:
Fine art , Arts and creative industries , Modern and Contemporary Art , Film , Art history
Courses taught:
Background

Jo studied English Literature and Politics before returning to education as a mature student to study Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art, where she completed a BA in Fine Art followed by an MFA in Fine Art. She also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Jo has taught Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art for many years. Her teaching is closely informed by her own practice and research, particularly around experimental approaches to making, independent practice and critical enquiry. She is committed to engaging with contemporary pedagogical thinking and to developing inclusive approaches to teaching that recognise different ways of learning, thinking and participating. Her interdisciplinary practice spans moving image, sound, text and installation, with a longstanding interest in identity, memory, representation and the relationship between personal experience and wider social and cultural histories. Language is also central to her practice, particularly the ways in which words, images and narratives shape how we understand, interpret and make sense of the world. Her work has also incorporated walking, place and collaborative approaches to text and image-making.

Research interests
  • Practice-based Fine Art research
  • Moving image and sound
  • Installation and text
  • Archives and counter-archives
  • Memory and intergenerational experience
  • Feminist approaches to representation
  • Personal and institutional histories
  • Trauma, absence and fragmented histories
  • Walking and place as artistic methodologies
  • Fine Art pedagogy

Jo’s current practice-based research examines the relationship between personal memory, family history and institutional archives, with a particular interest in overlooked and fragmented histories and women’s experiences. Through moving image, sound, text and installation, she explores the possibilities of the counter-archive as an artistic methodology and considers how gaps, absences and uncertainties within historical records might be approached through subjective and embodied forms of enquiry. Her research draws on feminist, psychoanalytic and critical approaches to memory, trauma, representation and archival practice.

Teaching

Jo currently teaches on the following modules:

  • Fine Art Practice 1
  • Fine Art Practice 2
  • Fine Art Major Project
  • Exhibitions in Context
Qualifications
  • MFA Fine Art
  • BA (Hons) Fine Art
  • BA (Hons) English Literature and Politics
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Memberships, editorial boards
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)