Education
2020. University Arts London. Supervising Research Degrees.
2019. Advance HE. FHEA.
2010-16. Royal College of Art. PhD. Visual Communication
2006-9. Royal College of Art. MA (Distinction) Communication, Art & Design
1996-9. Kent Institute of Art & Design. BA (1st Class). Visual Communication
1995-6. Lambeth College. City & Guilds. Film Production
Selected positions
2019-Pres. Assoc. Prof. MA. Film Practice. Arts University Bournemouth
2016-17. Assoc. Mentor. MFA. San Francisco Art Institute
2012-15. Visiting Lecturer. MA. Art & Design, Curating. Art Royal College of Ar
2012-14. Assoc. Curator. Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artist Film & Video in Britain 2008-13. Tate Britain
2012. Visiting Lecturer/Project Curator. Freud Museum, London
2010-12. Creative Mentor. Creative Mentors Foundation, London
Selected publications
Site of Co-Presence. FORUM+ - Pending. (co-authored with Jenny Baines). 2025.
Creative Parameters: Reimagining Film Practice. Transformative Teaching. AMPS (Architecture/Media/Politics/Society). 2023.
Work of Memory. Avanca Cinema. Avanca, Portugal: Art, Technology, Communication – Avanca. 2023.
Questions of Imagination and Process: The Potential of Film Practice Pedagogy to Challenge Existing Modes of Production in the Context of the Climate Emergency. Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ). no. 10.1 & 2. (co-authored with Robert Hardcastle). 2022.
Film Talks:15 Conversations about Experimental Cinema. Contact Screenings. (Co-edited with Simon Payne). 2021.
Resemblance to Other Animals: Dispossessed Beings, Recounted Journeys and Other Memories. Journal of Communication and Languages. No. 52. 2020.
This Was Now: The Conception & Consideration of Assembly. Sequence: New Artists' Film & Video. no.4. (Co-authored with Simon Payne). 2016.
Karen Mirza & Brad Butler in conversation with Andrew Vallance ‘We are living in a utopia - it’s just not ours’. MIRA. no. 5.1. 2015.
Assembly: Roundtable (with Andrew Vallance, Simon Payne, David Curtis, Elizabeth Price, George Clark, Gil Leung). MIRAJ. no. 3.1. (Co-authored with Simon Payne). 2015.
Forever May: Thoughts & Questions Concerning Politics, Film & Criticality. Sequence: New Artists' Film & Video. no.3. 2012.
Black Box Projector. Sequence: New Artists' Film & Video. no.2. 2011.
Selected conferences & symposiums
Université Catholique de Lille. Between Preservation and Transformation, Reinventing Our World. 2024. Sites of Co-presence.
BAFTSS. Annual Conference . 2024. Future Proofed!?: ‘What is Film education supposed to achieve?
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. Method / Art: Methods in Artistic Research. 2023. Sites of Co-presence.
BAFTSS. Annual Conference. 2023. Questions of Imagination and Process.
AMPS. Transformative Teaching International conference. 2022. Creative Parameters: Reimagining Film Practic
Avanca Cinema International Conference. Portugal. 2022. Work of Memory.
Queen Mary University of London. Experimental Film, Video Art, and the Borders of Cinema. A British Society of Aesthetics Synergy Conference. 2022. Discursive interaction.
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Counter Image: International Conference. 2019. Resemblance to Other Animals.
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). The Archive and the Contested Landscape. 2018. Found archives and unknown territories.
Lincoln University. MPE & MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium: Contexts of Practice. 2018. Reflective (Re)searchers.
Whitechapel Gallery. Artists' Moving Image Practice in Britain: From 1990 to Today. 2015. This was Then: An Appraisal of Assembly.
Royal College of Art. Association of Art Historians Conference. 2014. Screen Time/Screen Space – Cinema &/As Gallery Art.
Royal College of Art. Forever May: Film, Politics, Criticality. 2013. Speakers: Nina Power, Esther Leslie, William Raban (Initiated/convener).
Royal College of Art. Black Box Projector: The Projection, Perception & Specificity of Artist Film & Video. 2011. Speakers: Tacita Dean, David Curtis, Mark Nash, Karen Mirza, Nicky Hamlyn, Neil Henderson, Maxa Zoller, Lucy Reynolds (Initiated/convener).