Ms Alison Craighead

Ms Alison Craighead


I am a Reader in contemporary art and visual culture at University of Westminster and also lecture in fine art at Goldsmiths University, London.

I work as a visual artist in collaboration with Jon Thomson (The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London) making artworks and installations for galleries, online and sometimes outdoors. Much of our recent work explores how trends of globalisation and global communications networks are re-shaping the way we all perceive and understand the world around us.


My practice-based research examining how windfarms are changing wild landscapes in the Scotland Highlands, in particular how people are responding to these material changes; what it means at an individual level but also in relation to the world’s wider transition to net zero carbon emissions at a time of climate emergency. 

Ultimately, we will produce moving image artworks; an essay film and a series of documentary portraits taking inspiration from the work of filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait (11 November 1918 – 16 April 1999), in particular her interest in how people exist in conversation with the landscape and the seasons


  • Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture

Sustainable Development Goals
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Research areas

Art, Word and Image, Technology, Documentary,