Roy Claire Potter

I am a practising artist specialising in performance art and experimental writing with a specific interest in production constraints, editorial methodologies, and socially and politically framed subject areas such as sociolinguistics, violence, and the temporality of traumatic experience. My current practice-research projects reflect on improvisational collaboration methods in performance, and respond to the methodological potentials of autistic language use.

I teach on the studio module for second and final year students of BA Fine Art, and I'm module leader for the Critical Research and Publication module for final year students. As a visiting academic to post-graduate programmes across the UK, I develop workshops that explore experimental writing as research practice methods for masters-level and doctoral candidates. I'm a short-course tutor of Hybrid Writing for the public literary organisation, Arvon Foundation.

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 at Huddersfield University, and in Holland at the Sandberg Instituut.

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 specific interest in delusional temporal shifts and aphasia. These highly complex contexts of performative interpersonal communication have greatly influenced my practice-research as an artist, and my pedagogical approach to listening practices and linguistic frameworks for audiences.



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 public events that explored modes of art writing with audiences across England and Scotland.

In 2015 I was awarded the Erna Plachte Scholarship and graduated with distinction under the supervision of Dr. John Cussans on the MFA Fine Art programme at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, where I presented a body of work that examined experimental writing and performance collage and bricolage methods in relation 'the lad' as an embodied practice of gendered and classed figuration.

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 2019 and 2022 are: Book Works, London; Primary, Nottingham; Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3; Tate Britain and Tate Publishing, London; Cafe OTO, London; Counterflows music festival, Glasgow; Mostyn, Llandudno. My art works are commercially represented by A plus A Gallery, 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

Interim Programme Leader, Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University, 2023 - present
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 - 2023
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