Jane Topping
Jane Topping
- Lecturer MLitt Contemporary Art Practice
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8148-6684- Job Title
- Lecturer MLitt Contemporary Art Practice
- School or Academic Area
- School of Fine Art
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Fine Art
- J.Topping@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3 6RF
Biography
I'm an artist and lecturer on the MLitt Contemporary Art Practice programme here at Glasgow School of Art. My interdisciplinary practice meddles with science fiction and horror, the archive and the screen, hysteria, nostalgia and cats, sometimes meandering towards autofiction or delving into the literature and lives of writers, including Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999). Recent outings for my practice and research include the publications React! React! React! (Good Press, 2025) & Shit Hair (2024), The Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomenon, Mildred’s Lane, New York (2024), From Glasgow to Saturn: A Literary Journal at the University of Glasgow, Issue 52: Radical Joy Edition, Transitions: Annual Conference of Science Fiction Research Association, University of Tartu (2024), solo exhibition Drew Barrymore's Island Hotel from Hell (Patricia Fleming, Glasgow 2023), Queereal Secretions (Annex Gallery, GSA, 2023), Fiction Machines IV (Bath School of Art, Film & Media, 2023), Feminist Histories of the Future (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2023), Murky Waters (Edinburgh, 2022), The Immaterial Salon (Marseilles, 2022), Gothic Nature Journal III: Haunted Shores (https://gothicnaturejournal.com/) and The Influencing Machine (nGbK, Berlin, 2018).
Before joining GSA I was an Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts.
Research Interests
Sci-Fi; Fictioning; Fandom; The Screen; Horror; Autofiction; Naomi Mitchison
Current PGR Students
CC Ozdogan (Co-Supervisor)
Niketa Shetty (Co-Supervisor)
Yimin Xiang (Co-Supervisor)
Teaching
In addition to lecturing on the MLitt Contemporary Art Practice course (Expanded Media pathway), I co-lead the Masters-Level Practice As Research course. I lead the Professional Practice series for Masters students & teach on the GSA Research Degrees Training course (MPhil/PhD).
Latest Additions
- Topping, Jane (2025) React! React! React! or Three Stories of Autoimmunity or Another Reason Not to Smoke. Good Press, Glasgow.
- Topping, Jane (2024) Scream for Me Glasgow (2024).
- Topping, Jane (2024) Bedroom Floor (Misty), 2023. Oil & pencil on paper, c-type print, photograph, vintage comic.
- Jackson, Deborah, Hodson, Elizabeth, Robertson, Fiona, Topping, Jane, Hannah, Michelle and Figgis, Laurence (2024) Class Matters: Exhibition. Annex Gallery, Stow Building, Glasgow School of Art, 29 Apr-21 May 2024
- Topping, Jane (2024) Bedroom Floor (Queen Body).
- Topping, Jane (2024) Shit Hair.
- Topping, Jane (2023) A Nebulous Void and Null. In: Queereal Secretions. Article Press, Glasgow, pp. 72-79. ISBN 9781873352137
- Coutts, Nicky, Rogers, Henry, Hannah, Michelle, Hodson, Elizabeth, Murray, Liz, Šik, Becky, Topping, Jane, McKee, Francis and McGilvary, Owain (2023) Queereal Secretions. Annex Gallery, Stow Building, The Glasgow School of Art, 13 November - 15 December 2023
- Topping, Jane (2023) Drew Barrymore's Island Hotel from Hell. Patricia Fleming Gallery, Oxford House, 4 Oxford Lane, Glasgow, G5 9ER, 3 Nov - 16 Dec 2023
- Topping, Jane (2022) The Man Who Fell to Millom. Gothic Nature Journal: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic (3). ISSN 2632-4628
