Jenny Dunseath

Personal statement

Jenny Dunseath is Reader in Fine Art Sculpture and Senior Lecturer on the Fine Art course at Bath School of Art, Film & Media. Her practice spans sculpture, digital media, film and live artworks.

Her work investigates how artistic behaviours and digital mediation reshape creativity, pedagogy, and cultural discourse. Her practice-based research explores the value of non-linear, embodied, and iterative processes across art, education, and immersive technology. Dunseath collaborates with others; artists, educators, coders and technologists to challenge conventional ideas of productivity, authorship, and material engagement. Through interactive artworks, international exhibitions, and participatory learning environments, her work aims to reframe artistic agency, promote inclusive pedagogies, and develop new frameworks for understanding creative labour in digital and material contexts.

Jenny is co-lead of Material:Pedagogy:Futures (MPF), a research network at Bath Spa University, Kingston University, University of Westminster, University of Bergen and UAL. MPF is an international network of transdisciplinary, practice-based researchers and educators who are dedicated to querying their positions and agencies as artist-teachers. She was Academic Lead for the Erasmus+ funded ACCELERATE project (2021-23), which explored the use of accessible immersive technology in post-pandemic art and design HE education.

She is a member of Inventory of Behaviours (IOB) with founders Dr Natasha Kidd & Jo Addison, and co-collaborator Kelly Large.  IOB researches the rituals, traits and habits of artists to better understand the processes that constitute creativity. The project’s findings have been disseminated through large scale participatory performances, book chapters, conference papers, talks and seminars and films

.Jenny's work has received national and international recognition through exhibitions, events and commissioned installations by galleries and leading public arts institutions that include the Royal Academy of Art, Tate Modern, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Korean Cultural Centre, Gaana Gallery (Seoul), Flat Time House, OUTPOST, SKELF and Gig Munich.

Academic qualifications

• Pg Dip, The Royal Academy of Art, London
• BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
• BTec Dip, Foundation studies Art and Design.

Professional memberships

• Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Other external roles

• External Academic Board Member for Art Academy, London
• External Academic Advisor, Programme Review BAFA Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
• External Academic MFA Fine Art Scrutiny Event, Duncan of Jordanstone, College of Art and Design, School of Art and Design, University of Dundee.
• External Academic Revalidation BA FA University Centre South Essex
• External Academic Revalidation BA FA Winchester School of Art
• Wunderkammer Press Board Member BSU
• HEA Champion for BSAD, Bath Spa University
• Senior Academic for External Periodic Review, Colchester School of Art and Design, University of Essex
• Course Validation Graphic Design, Norwich University of the Arts
• Senate Member, Norwich University of the Arts.

Teaching specialism

• Fine Art Sculpture.

Projects

ACCELERATE: Accessible Immersive Learning for Art and Design. An Erasmus+ funded project, coordinated by Professor Ian Gadd supported by Academic Lead Jenny Dunseath with partners from the UK, Ireland, Poland, and Ukraine.

This 2-year project aimed to improve the teaching of art and design at higher education in Europe through the development of innovative methodologies, tools, platforms, and resources for accessible immersive learning.

Artist Boss A creative research project that examined sculpture, and the role of the studio assistant to raise questions concerning the status of production, originality, authenticity, and authorship within the tradition of twentieth-century British sculpture.

The project focused on Sir Anthony Caro and his studio assistants to look at this ‘traditional’ role and its impact on making and artists’ careers today. The project asks how does it affect making and what happens to the assistants?

It involved a series of exhibitions, a publication, a website with learning resources, talks and events to create access to new work and engages new audiences with sculpture.