Research Catalogue

Neil Chapman is an artist, writer and researcher. His work explores material textual practices, questions concerning visuality in art and writing, collaborative creative method, and the histories of these themes. He has a PhD in Fine Art Practice-based research from the University of Reading (2011). The thesis Protowork as Art's Expanded Writing Practice proposes 'writing-artefacts' as the constituents of an inquiry into diverse forms of visuality. His book Diagrams for Seriality is published by Copy Press (London, 2014) and has been described as a “meditation on the relation of seeing to saying, the possibility and impossibility of communication, and the very business of making and writing”.

In collaboration with David Stent (West Dean College, West Sussex) Neil Chapman has helped found and has contributed to an ongoing series of residencies, installations and reading/performances under the title Writing As Occupation (Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham, O3 Gallery, Oxford, Force8). Writing As Occupation explores the physical demands of writing, reading as performance, broadcast as dissemination, the effects of place and diverse technologies on writing, the ways in which such experiments expose new potentials of collective work.

Neil Chapman teaches Fine Art, Critical Studies and Art Research.