Roy Claire Potter

I joined the fine art department at LJMU in 2016 as a visiting lecturer, and was appointed as a senior lecturer of contemporary fine art in 2019. I am a practicing artist specialising in performance art and experimental writing with a specific interest in restrictive production methods, and socially and politically framed subject areas such as sociolinguistics, violence, and the temporality of traumatic experience. I teach on the studio module for second and final year students of the bachelor programme, and am module leader for the critical research and publication module for final year students. I also teach experimental writing as research practice methods, as a visiting academic to post-graduate programmes across the UK.

Since 2015 I have taught on both undergraduate and post-graduate fine art and theatre programmes at universities and art schools across the UK, and also in France and Holland. I have delivered interdisciplinary workshops and symposia for PhD research students of fine art, and I have acted as external examiner for studio and thesis at post-graduate level in both the UK and Holland. 



My bachelor degree is in contemporary creative practice and was awarded by Leeds Metropolitan University in 2008. After graduation I worked in a variety of highly gendered service roles in lap dancing bars and elderly care settings, where, latterly, I specialised in dementia care and took a particular interest in delusional temporal shifts and aphasia—all experiences of high complex, interpersonal communication that have greatly influenced my research and pedagogy.



Between 2011 and 2013 I studied as a part-time student under Prof. Maria Fusco and received a post-graduate diploma in art writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. The following year I completed and published my first book of experimental fiction, and received a grant award from Arts Council England to programme a series of events that explored modes of art writing in cities across the country. 

In 2015 I was awarded the Erna Plachte Scholarship and graduated under the supervision of Dr. John Cussans with a masters in fine art from the University of Oxford.

My art works have been commissioned and presented across the UK, and in Canada, Norway, France, Germany, Italy, and the Republic of Ireland. I have given live and broadcast vocal performances and readings, exhibited film and installation works, published experimental writing in collections and as single-authored books, and I have worked with musicians to produce audio works for commercial release and performance.

A sample of commissioners between 2017 and 2020 are: Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3; Tate Publishing, London; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Mostyn, Llandudno; ChelseaSPACE, London; Electra Productions, London; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; and A+A gallery in Venice.

Degrees

University of Oxford, UK, MFA Fine Art
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, PGDip Art Writing
Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, BA Contemporary Creative Practice

Academic appointments

External Examiner, Huddersfield University, 2020 - present
Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art, Newcastle University, 2020 - 2020
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, 2020 - 2020
Visiting Speaker, University of Oxford, 2020 - 2020
Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019 - present
Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2019 - 2020
Visiting Lecturer, University of Reading, 2019 - 2019
Visiting Lecturer, Newcastle University, 2019 - 2019
Visiting Lecturer, Teeside University, 2019 - 2019
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, 2018 - 2019
Visiting Lecturer, Norwich University of the Arts, 2018 - 2018
Visiting Lecturer, Leeds Arts University, 2017 - 2017
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, 2017 - 2017
External Examiner, Sandberg Instituut, 2017 - 2017
Visiting Lecturer, York St John University, 2017 - 2017
Visiting Lecturer, Bath Spa University, 2016 - 2016
Visiting Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016 - 2019
Visiting Lecturer, Reading University, 2016 - 2016
Visiting Lecturer, York St John University, 2015 - 2015
Visiting Lecturer, Nantes School of Art, 2014 - 2014
Visiting Lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University, 2014 - 2014