Dr Michael Stubbs
Dr Michael Stubbs
- Reader in Contemporary Painting
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6242-7755- Professional Title
- Dr. Michael Stubbs, Reader in Contemporary Painting
- Job Title
- Reader in Contemporary Painting
- School or Academic Area
- School of Fine Art
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Fine Art
- M.Stubbs@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Painting and Printmaking Department, School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Stow Building, 43 Shamrock Street, Glasgow G4 9LD
- Country
- UK
Biography
My painting practice foregrounds a relational subjectivity which superimposes material making, art historical and utilitarian decorative tropes, with the immaterial opticality of the screen. I combine a) a reframing of the historical tropes and contrasting styles of abstraction with pop art (and baroque and renaissance painting), b) interrogate the relations between the embodied, physical materiality of painting with the immaterial depth of the disembodied digital screen, and c) promote the decorative and utilitarian functions of commercially sourced house paints and floor varnishes as ‘high art’.
Utilising a process-led, flat-on-flat, transparent, poured and opaque series of abstract overlays in which I embed popular graphic signs and symbols, material making becomes a complex mirroring of the ubiquity of digitised images and signs.
www.michaelstubbs.org
Research Interests
Contemporary Painting, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Expanded Painting, Post Medium Painting, Historical Abstract Painting, Post Structuralism, Post Modernism, Overlapping relations between Embodied, Physical Painting and the Disembodied Digital/Virtual
Grants
2024 - Michael Stubbs: New Paintings’ - Funding (1.2K, Liverpool Hope University) for solo exhibition, talk/video
2022 - Signifiance - Funding (1.7K, Liverpool Hope University) for Group exhibition, curation, talk/video
2019 - Digital-Painting-Photography. Named partner funded by Derby University for conference (2019) and £324 Glasgow School of Art funding for chapter publication (2020) by Cambridge Scholars Publications
2018 - Teaching Painting. Named partner on ‘Teaching Painting’ funded by Glasgow School of Art; Manchester School of Art; Brighton for conference paper at Royal Academy of Arts and group exhibition at Royal College of Art (2018)
2018 - Destroyed by Shadows - Funding (1.5K, Liverpool Hope University) for Group exhibition, curation, talk/video
2017 - Michael Stubbs: New Paintings’ - Funding (1.5K, Liverpool Hope University) for solo exhibition, talk/video
2003-04 - PhD Fees and Studio Funding, Goldsmiths, University of London
1999-02 - Full-time PhD Bursary, AHRC
PGR Supervision Interests
Contemporary and Historical Abstract Painting, Post Medium Painting, Post Structuralism, Metamodernism, Phenomenology, Digital Culture, Hypersurface Architecture, Accelerationism, Object Orientated Ontology
Current PGR Students
2023-26 - Sitian Zeng, (PhD Primary Supervisor)
Research Title: ‘Painting as an Approach to Explore Immanent Subjectivity in the Digital Age’.
Former PGR Students
2020-24 - Ginny Elston, (PhD Primary Supervisor)
Research Title: ‘Rethinking Material Knowledge through the Agency of the Art Object’. Completed, 2024
2018-21 - James Frew, (PhD Primary Supervisor)
Research Title: ‘Digital Facture: Painting after new Media Art.’ Completed, 2021
Teaching
2020-Present - Reader in Contemporary Painting, Painting and Printmaking Department, School of Art, Glasgow School of Art
2015-20 - Lecturer, Painting and Printmaking Department, School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
Latest Additions
- Stubbs, Michael (2026) Solo Exhibition: Michael Stubbs: Deep Space. Atelier Gallery, Leiston, UK, 04 - 19 April, 2026
- Stubbs, Michael (2025) Group Exhibition: 'Thinking in Paint'. Tension Fine Art, London, UK, 18 October - 29 November 2025
- Stubbs, Michael (2025) Group Exhibition: Advanced Contemporaries II, Ione and Mann Gallery, London, UK, 2025. Ione and Mann Gallery, London, UK, 26 July - 13 September 2025
- Stubbs, Michael (2025) Group Exhibition: Space Oddity, Atelier Gallery, Leiston, Suffolk, UK, 2025. Atelier Gallery, Leiston, UK, 4 April - 28 April, 2025
- Stubbs, Michael (2025) Group Exhibition: Common Ground, Laurent Delaye Gallery, Folkestone, UK, 2025. Laurent Delaye Gallery@Gallery 66, Folkestone, UK, 28 March - 8 April 2025
- Stubbs, Michael (2024) Group Exhibition: Spotlight 4: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham Museum, 2024. Chippenham Museum and Art Galleries
- Stubbs, Michael (2024) Group Exhibition: For Folk Sake, Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, UK, 2024. Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, UK, 12 October - 9 November
- Stubbs, Michael (2024) Solo Exhibition: Michael Stubbs, Cornerstone Gallery. Liverpool Hope University, UK, 2024. Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University, UK, 8 February - 22 March 2024
- Stubbs, Michael (2023) Group Exhibition: Ghosts in the Machine, Tension Fine Art, London, UK, 2023. Tension Fine Art, London, UK, 6 October - 18 November
- Stubbs, Michael (2023) Group Exhibition: Dirty Synth II, The Bear Presents, Camberwell, London, UK. The Bear Presents, Camberwell, London, UK, 25 August - 6 October 2023
