Shauna McMullan works three days a week in the department and co-ordinates the second year course. Shauna studied Fine Art in Cheltenham, England
followed by a Masters Degree at Glasgow School of Art and The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago. She has received a number of awards including a Scottish Arts Council Scholarship at the British
School at Rome and residencies at the NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art) in
the Faroe Islands and Triangle Artist Workshop in Karachi, Pakistan. Her work
has been shown nationally and internationally at major museums as well as
through permanent public commissions.
Shauna has considerable experience in the practical realisation of
large scale permanent Public Art Works that embrace a commitment to innovative
means of collective involvement in the methods of realisation. Travelling the Distance made for the
Scottish Parliament, Blue SpineCollection (Interview podcast) Made for Glasgow Women’s Library and Via shown in The Toyota Museum of Modern Art, Japan are three such
examples. Her main areas of
interest are with landscape, mapping and place, specifically how we
individually, collectively and culturally negotiate, define and mediate
them. Central to the work is the
collaboration with individuals from different backgrounds, geographies cultures
and generations:
“…one of the aims of the work is to disrupt the internal coherence
that the classic map lays claim to, focusing on the significance of unofficial
histories and oral traditions in defining and re-defining identity and place.”
