About
Brian Baker
Since leaving academia in 2025, I have been in the process of developing my art practice. Although trained as a literary academic, from 2012 I was keen to develop experimental forms of critical writing which has since coalesced under the name ‘critical-creative’. In 2019, my interest in text/image and in visual poetry led me to take a part-time MA in Art Practice, in which, despite the intervention of Covid, I managed to gain a Distinction. After this, I balanced my academic work with creative, and my teaching and postgraduate supervision became increasingly focused on creative writing.
In 2023, working with Dr Azelina Flint, we applied for and were awarded AHRC Impact Acceleration funding for a public-facing project called Women's Iconography in the 21st century, involving the Lancaster University Library and Blackburn Museum, in a series of workshops in which contemporary women are memorialized through the practice of icon painting., along with the development of an archive of contemporary women icon painters. This was highly successful and Dr Flint, now at Durham University, has taken the project forward to develop the grant applications to several bodies. My involvement allowed me to develop skills in running workshops focused on art-making, within supportive and generous environments for all.
Brian is part of the Troiiica art group.
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