The Team
The FAMH team is based in institutions across the Republic of Ireland and the UK: Loughborough University, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology, University of Cambridge, University of Leeds and University of Manchester.
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UK Research Associate and Co-Investigator
Ana Baeza Ruiz works across feminism, museums, cultural history and visual culture. She has undertaken projects around the visual construction of girls in the late-C19th Spain, oral histories with feminist art practitioners in the UK from the 1970s onwards, and critical issues in co-creation and participation in museums. She teaches cultural heritage and museum studies at the University of Manchester and has worked as a curator and broadcaster (V&A, MoDA, BBC, Museo del Romanticismo). She has published articles in International Journal of Cultural Studies, Cultural and Social History, International Journal of Heritage Studies, and Journal of Museum Education. Her forthcoming monograph is with Routledge.
More information on her work is available here.
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Irish Primary InvestigatorTina Kinsella is Head of Research at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire (IADT) where she was previously Head of Design and Visual Arts. Tina is Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College Dublin, and Fellow at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM), Dublin. She has lectured on Visual Culture, Feminism, Art History and Theory at Dublin City University, IADT, National College of Art and Design, Trinity College Dublin, and the Technological University of Dublin.
Her PhD (National College of Art and Design, Dublin) on the Matrixial Theory and art practice of Bracha L. Ettinger was examined by Professor Griselda Pollock. Tina regularly collaborates with contemporary artists. She curated a large-scale joint exhibition of work by Aideen Barry and Alice Maher, Fair is Foul & Foul is Fair, at the Katzen Center, American University, Washington DC (2019) and she was a researcher and writer for Jesse Jones’s ‘Tremble Tremble’ for the 57th Venice Biennale of Art, 2017. She has presented keynote, invited lectures and written commissioned catalogues essays for the Danish Art Academy, Elliott School of International Affairs (New York University), Van Abbemuseum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hibernian Academy, Istanbul Biennial, Douglas Hyde Gallery and the National Gallery of Ireland. She is currently working on a monograph on contemporary female artists’ interrogation of surrealism.
More information on her work is available here
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UK Co-investigator
Elspeth Mitchell’s research explores practices and theories of feminism and visual culture. In October 2021 she joined the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at University of Leeds as the Griselda Pollock Legacy Lecturer. Elspeth has published in the areas of feminist digital art history, feminist philosophy, girls’ studies, eco feminism and artist’s moving image and cinema.
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Irish Research Associate
Martina Mullaney is a practicing artist and academic. She is the research Co-Ordinator for FilmEU European University at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin, Ireland. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London and AHRC-funded Ph.D. from the University of Reading. Her research asks how art on and of maternity can transcend its own audience. She convened The Missing Mother Conference in 2021, and co-edited with Prof. Andrea O'Reilly The Missing Mother anthology (Demeter Press).
She is a recipient of the Red Mansion Art Prize, London, and China; she has been artist in residence with BALENCIAGA, Paris, The British Council in Sri Lanka, and Tbilisi, Georgia, and The Gallery of Photography, Dublin. Her work has been shown at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York; Franekel Gallery, San Francisco; Artwall Gallery, Prague; and Cork Film Center, Ireland. She founded Enemies of Good Art in London after the birth of her child. Events took place at Tate Modern, the ICA, Southbank Centre and Chisenhale Gallery, Tranzit Display Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic and Galerija Nova, Zagreb in 2015. Enemies of Good Art also broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM
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UK Co-investigator
Amy Tobin is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge and curator, contemporary programmes at Kettle’s Yard. She researches radical forms of relation and the politics of togetherness in art since the 1960s. She has published her research in numerous academic journals, exhibition catalogues and art magazines. Her book Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women’s Liberation came out with Yale University Press in 2023, in the same year she co-edited a new edition of Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami and published a major article on the American artist Candace Hill-Montgomery.
More information on her work is available here
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UK Primary Investigator
Hilary Robinson is Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory, and Director, Centre for Doctoral Training: Feminism, Sexual Politics, and Visual Culture, Loughborough University. She trained as a painter (Newcastle University); her MA is in Cultural History (RAC); her PhD was supervised by Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds). She worked at the University of Ulster1992-2005, teaching the history and theory of contemporary art to studio Fine and Applied Art students. She became Professor of the Politics of Art and then Head of School there. She became Dean, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh PA, USA; 2005); and in 2012 she became Dean, School of Art and Design, Middlesex University (London). She moved to her present position in 2017. While in Pittsburgh her board memberships included The Andy Warhol Museum and The Mattress Factory Museum. In the UK she was an advisory board member for the AHRC-funded project Black Artists and Modernism (P.I.: Sonia Boyce).
Hilary’s publications include Visibly Female: Women and Art Today (ed.; 1987); Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: The Politics of Art by Women (2006); Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2014 (ed.; 2015); Art of Feminism (co-authored; 2nd. ed., 2022); A Companion to Feminist Art (co-ed: Maria Buszek; 2019); Feminisms-Museums-Surveys (co-ed: Lara Perry; 2025).
Advisory Group
Prof Caroline Bassett, Director, Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge;
Dr Althea Greenan, Director, Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths;
Prof Susan Pui San Lok, Director, Decolonising Art Institute, University of the Arts London;
Dr Aileen O’Carroll, Policy Manager, Digital Repository of Ireland and Maynooth University;
Prof Dorothy Price, Editor, Art History, and the Courtauld Art Institute.
Our Advisory Group augmented our knowledge-base and helped shape our ways of working.