Laura Guy lectures in Fine Art Critical Studies at Glasgow School of Art. She has previously held teaching positions in Fine Art (Critical Studies) at Goldsmiths College, University of London and in Contextual Studies for Art and Design at Manchester School of Art.

As well as working at GSA, Laura is a postdoctoral researcher at Edinburgh College of Art on a 3 year HERA supported research project 'Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures'.

Her PhD thesis 'Manifestos: Aesthetics and politics in queer times', (Manchester School of Art, 2016) focused on the temporalities of the manifesto form in order to map intersections between aesthetics and politics in histories of queer social movements since the 1960s.

Before undertaking doctoral research, Laura completed a BA (hons) in Photographic Arts, University of Westminster in 2008 and an MA in the Photographic Image, in the Centre for Advanced Photography Studies, Durham University in 2012. She also holds an MA in Media and Cultural Production from Vision Forum, Linköping University, Sweden.

Her research is in the areas of art history and visual culture, with a focus on the legacies of feminist and queer cultural production from the 1960s onward. She has also written extensively on photography and particularly recent histories of British documentary including the output of TEN.8 Photographic Magazine during the 1980s. This research explores emergent discourses in the field of British photography in that decade, connecting with feminist, anti-racist and lesbian concerns.

In addition to her writing, Laura has collaborated with artists on numerous projects and curated exhibitions including recently 'Now You Can Go' at Raven Row, the Showroom and the Institute of Contemporary Art London, 1 - 13 December 2015; 'Inessential Fathers: An invitation to read together' at Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 16 – 21 September 2014; 'Jane Drew (1911-1996): An Introduction', also at the ICA, London, 12 Feb – 23 Mar 2014; 'There is another history' at the Cantor Film Center, NYU, New York, 11 – 12 April 2014 and 'Intentions - Strategies - Works' at TATE Liverpool, November 2013 - February 2014.

She has been invited to present talks internationally and is a member of Ph: The Photography Research Network.

Selected recent publications:

'I Want a Dyke for President: Sounding out Zoe Leonard’s manifesto for art history’s feminist futures' in Victoria Horne and Lara Perry (eds), Feminist Art Histories: Renewing Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice (London: I. B. Tauris, Spring 2017)

Review: Siona Wilson, Art Labor, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance in Visual Studies (Routledge, Spring 2017)

'Sex Wars, Revisited' in Aperture #225, Winter 2017

'Hiding in plain sight: Recognition and resistance in recent queer artists’ moving image' in the Moving Image Review and Art Journal, 5 (1-2) (Intellect, Autumn 2016)

'Scene Unseen', Interview with Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz in Frieze D/E, Winter 2015

'Embracing Feminism: TEN:8 Photographic Magazine and Greenham Women's Peace Protest' in Photoworks Annual, November 2015

Recent conference presentations:

'Max Almy: Revisiting Future Video' at Anachronism: a symposium, Queen Mary, University of London,19 November 2016

'"Blatantly Parochial": Community, Photography and Power in TEN.8 Issue 1' at Radical Histories/ Histories of Radicalism conference, Raphael Samuel History Centre, University of London, 30 June- 3 July 2016

'"We print pictures and ideas”: TEN.8 Photographic Magazine and the discursive field of British photography in the 1980s' at Photographic History Research Centre Summer Conference 2015, De Montford University, 21 June 2015

'Ephemeral is Material: Curating Queer Feminist Art Histories' at Curating Materiality: Feminism and Contemporary Art History, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, 13 June 2015

'Interim Strategies for Modern Times: The mimetic function in Max Almy’s video manifestos' at the Annual Conference for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, 23-30 March 2015

'"The Rhythm that Laughs You": Women having fun unwork Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto for video' at Debout! Feminist Activism and the Moving Image in France and Beyond, Queen Mary, University of London, 31 May 2015