Roy Claire Potter
Roy Claire Potter is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the Liverpool School of Art and Design and is Programme Leader for MA Fine Art. Roy is an artist who publishes, performs and exhibits, working across experimental writing, spoken performance, sound art, sculptural installation and drawing. They are represented by A plus A gallery in Venice, and recent research-based artworks have been presented with international arts organisations including Book Works, Serpentine, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Tate Britian, Tate Publishing and PRIMARY.
Collaboration with musicians and sound artists is a frequent feature of their practice, producing audio works for music festivals and radio broadcasts. Collaborators have included a wide, dynamic range of acoustic practitioners including Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha, Berlin-based techno DJ Ziur, sound artist Kieron Piercy and doom folk singer-songwriter Bridget Hayden. These works have been presented by world-leading sound arts organisations including BBC Radio 3, Radiophrenia, Café OTO, Counterflows, and Supernormal.
Roy holds an MFA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, a PGDip in Art Writing from Goldsmiths, and BA (hons) from Leeds Metropolitan University. They have lectured and taught studio and theory at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and have examined practice-based research across the UK and Europe, including Royal College of Art, Royal Academy Schools, Goldsmiths, Newcastle University, Sandberg Institute Netherlands, Curatorial School Venice, and Beaux-Arts Nantes, among many others.
Current practice-based research is focused on how experimental art writing and language-based performance art intersects with neurodivergent methodologies of communication, particularly in spatial linguistic frameworks like situated vocal encounters, but also extended to the spatial organisation of the page and first-person narrative form. They are specifically interested in the radical, socio-political potential of an autistic poetics for new modes of communality and communication and are establishing this inquiry through practice-based investigations into radio communications technologies.