Dr Tansy Spinks

As an artist: 

Live, improvised sound in performance, 

sound and materiality, 

site-related sound in live performance, 

improvisation studies, 

visual and graphic scores and performance, 

sound walks and text scores, 

collaborative research-led sound for film 

the everyday object: variously through writing, drawing, photography, video, performance and latterly painting.

Teaching at Middlesex University (and formerly Middlesex Polytechnic to 1992) from 1986 as variously, 0.5, 0.4 and currently 0.6 , as Senior Lecturer, Fine Art, teaching across all three years on BA FIne Art and exchanges co-ordinator across BA & MA.

Previously Programme Leader for MA Fine Art, 2016-2022 (at times encompassing MA Fine Art Printmaking, MA Social Practice, MA Photography and MA jewellery Futures)

Dr Tansy Spinks, PGR completions:

Robin Bale, completed 2018: And I Half Turn to Go: Invocatio and the Negation of the Public, co-supervisor with Professor Jon Bird, (DOS) 

Artur Vidal, 2019: The Notion of Silence in Improvised Music and Acoustic Ecology - attempts to develop new knowledge on both disciplines through the study of their understanding of the notion of silence. Co supervisor with Professor David Toop and Russ Bestley (DOS) at LCC, UAL, for MPhil

Paula Chambers, 2018: Feral Objects and Acts of Domestic Piracy: Sculpture, Secular Magic, and Strategies of Feminist Disruption. DOS Dr Alexandra Kokoli, co-supervising with Dr Basia Sliwinska (LCF)  

In progress:

Ema Santini, TS as DOS, (originally Rebecca Fortnum), with Professor David Henderson (dec., formerly at Mdx then UEL) previously Dr Stewart Martin, now Dr Luke White. (Due to submit 2024): Drawing and the Creative Process in Relation to Jung’s Theory of the Unconscious  

Shicong Xie, on team with DOS Dr Anne Robinson: Perceiving time: raising an awareness of time via the frame gap in experimental film

Eirini Bogdanou, TS as DOS, with Dr Magnus Moar: Immersive Art Experience: Reaching for Awe through Virtual Reality Art