Sarah Smith
Head of Research
Research
The Glasgow School of Art
Research Interests
Artists' Moving Image, Experimental Film, Feminist Art, Feminist Film, Contemporary Art
Research Profile
Professor Sarah Smith is Head of Research at The Glasgow School of Art. Sarah has a BA in Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (1994), an MA in Film Studies from University College Dublin (1995), and a PhD in Artists’ Moving Image from University of Glasgow (2007). Her research interests are in the broad area of visual culture, with groundings in art history and film studies and her specialist areas are artists’ moving image and feminist art. Sarah regularly publishes her research in peer reviewed journals such as Screen, Sculpture Journal and Feminist Media Studies and is completing a monograph on the relationship between artists’ moving image and cinema to be published by Bloomsbury in 2025. She frequently peer reviews for academic publishers and journalsmore...
Professor Sarah Smith is Head of Research at The Glasgow School of Art. Sarah has a BA in Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (1994), an MA in Film Studies from University College Dublin (1995), and a PhD in Artists’ Moving Image from University of Glasgow (2007). Her research interests are in the broad area of visual culture, with groundings in art history and film studies and her specialist areas are artists’ moving image and feminist art. Sarah regularly publishes her research in peer reviewed journals such as Screen, Sculpture Journal and Feminist Media Studies and is completing a monograph on the relationship between artists’ moving image and cinema to be published by Bloomsbury in 2025. She frequently peer reviews for academic publishers and journals, such as Bloomsbury, Yale University Press, Screen Bodies, Open Screens, Arts, MIRAJ and Feminist Media Studies and has served as juror and panel member for various professional and research awards and prizes. In addition to peer-reviewed academic contexts, her research is disseminated through a variety of public platforms such as curatorial and programming projects, gallery and cinema talks, exhibition catalogue essays, magazine articles and reviews. Sarah supervises PhDs in artists moving image, experimental film and feminist art and is a member of a number of professional organisations including College Art Association (CAA), the British Association of Irish Studies (BAIS) and The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). She is a member of the AHRC peer review panel, the Irish Research Council and FCT (Portugal) Arts and Humanities peer review college and was a member of REF2021 Panel 32: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Painting, The National College of Art & Design, Dublin
MA in Film Studies, University College Dublin
PhD in Moving Image Art, University of Glasgow
