Sue Gollifer
Sue Gollifer is a Principal Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking, in the School of Arts and Communication and the Course Leader for the Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Media Arts (DMA) and for the MA in Printmaking and Professional Practice at the University of Brighton.
Her primary research is on 'The impact of new technology within the practice and pedagogy of Fine Art' and she has presented a number of evaluative and analytical papers on this subject at major international conferences. She has been a professional artist / printmaker for over 30 years, exhibiting work regularly throughout the world and her work is held in major national and international public collections. She has established a number of international artistic and educational contacts, particularly in Europe, the United States, Eastern Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
She has been significantly involved in the conference group Computers in Art & Design Education (CADE), since its inception in 1995, and she is presently Vice-Chair of that group. She has been a curator for a number of digital art exhibitions which have accompanied the CADE biennial conference, ArCade -‘The British International Open Exhibitions of Digital Prints' I, II, III and IV, GAMUT and BitStream. All of these exhibitions have received widespread international recognition, and have toured extensively throughout the UK and Russia. In 2004 she was selected as the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Chair 2004, the first European to be selected for this prestigious role.
Sue is on a number a number of national and international committees, including being a Director of the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) and the Brighton Fringe. She is on the Editorial Board of Digital Creativity, a referred journal, and is the art editor and curator of the visual section 'Artist Space', which examines the work of artists and printmakers using digital technology. She has made valuable worldwide contacts through her activities, and has contributed to the development of an international community of artists and scholars with a shared interest in new technology. She is a member of the Faculty's 'Pedagogic Research' and 'Fine Art Practices'
