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Professor Arabella Plouviez


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Emerita Professor of Photography

I am an Emerita Professor of Photography, having retired from the University in 2024.
Throughout my career, I have worked as both a practitioner and a creative practice researcher, exploring the intersections of photography, identity, and representation.

I played a key role in establishing the Northern Centre of Photography, helping to shape it into a leading space for innovative photographic practice and research.
My work has been widely exhibited, and I have contributed to critical discussions on visual culture through publications and presentations.

Beyond academic leadership, I have been committed to fostering interdisciplinary collaborations where creative practice researchers work alongside other disciplines to disrupt, challenge and re-think research practices, through the development of Co/Lab.

Having retired from full-time academia, I continue to engage with photography through independent projects, exhibitions, and collaborations, remaining actively involved in the field.



Publications

Number of items: 21.

Article

Graham, Yitka, Plouviez, Arabella, Clelland, Alison, Fox, Ann, Fowler, Ger, Sargeant, John and Hayes, Catherine (2022) ‘Applied Social Prescribing Practice: A Focused Arts Based Participatory Action Research Study of Military Veteran Transition Back to Civilian Life’. Journal of Participatory Methods. (In Press)

Book Section

Plouviez, Arabella, Mckay, Carol and Moschovi, Alexandra (2013) Connected. In: Versatile Image. University of Leiden Press, Netherlands.

Mckay, Carol, Plouviez, Arabella and Moschovi, Alexandra (2013) Are We All Photographers Now? Exhibiting and Commissioning Photography in the Age of Web 2.0. In: The Versatile Image. Leurven University PRess, pp. 127-146. ISBN 9789058679758

Conference or Workshop Item

Graham, Yitka and Plouviez, Arabella (2019) Comida y el mundo social de cirugia bariatrica/Food and the bariatric social world. In: XXI Congreso Scientifico del Colegio Mexicano para la obesidad y enfermedades metabolicas, July 3 - 6th 2019, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

Plouviez, Arabella (2017) Photographing Alzheimer's. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Submitted)

Plouviez, Arabella and Mckay, Carol (2016) Meshworks & Photography. In: The Association for Photography in Higher Education (APHE) 2016: Meshworks, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2016, Plymouth, UK. (Unpublished)

Mckay, Carol and Plouviez, Arabella (2016) NEPN and the Northern Centre of Photography: a model for photography in Higher Education. In: Association of Photographers in Higher Education, Meshworks Summer Conference 2016, 29 Jun - 1 Jul 2016, University of Plymouth. (Unpublished)

Plouviez, Arabella and Mckay, Carol (2012) Mass-Participatory Photography and the Critically-Engaged Practitioner: Commissioning and Exhibiting Contemporary Photography. In: Association of Art Historians Conference 2012, 29 - 31 March 2012, Milton Keynes. (Unpublished)

Plouviez, Arabella and Mckay, Carol (2011) Photography, walking and social networking: reflecting on critical
photographic practice. In: The Versatile Image, Photography in the Age of Web 2.0, 24th - 26th Jun 2011, University of Sunderland & Newcastle University. (Unpublished)

Book

Plouviez, Arabella, Moschovi, Alexandra and Mckay, Carol (2013) The Versatile Image, Photography, Digital Technologies and the Internet. Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789058679758

Artefact

Plouviez, Arabella (2012) Virus Portraits. [Artefact]

Plouviez, Arabella (2011) Alzheimer’s: A Quiet Story. A photographic series and solo exhibition. [Artefact]

Plouviez, Arabella Alzheimer's: A Quiet Story. [Artefact]

Show/Exhibition

Graham, Yitka (2020) Time for Tea. National Glass Centre, Feb 29-Jul 5 2020, Sunderland, UK.

Plouviez, Arabella (2014) Connected - Frames2014 Projecting International Photography. 2014Frames, 2014, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.

Wheeler, Shirley (2011) Virus Bad News wrapped in Protein, exhibition, catalogue and curator. Virus Bad New Wrapped in Protein, 9 Sep - 9 Oct 2011, St John's College, Oxford..

Plouviez, Arabella (2011) Augen-Blicke. .

Plouviez, Arabella (2010) Poster project. Essen Poster project, Sep 2010, Essen.

Plouviez, Arabella (2007) Deviant Woman. 26 Apr - 22 Jun 2007, Sunderland.

Plouviez, Arabella (2006) Summer Houses. , Slovakia.

Other

Plouviez, Arabella (2006) Research into the activities of the IPRN. UNSPECIFIED.

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Last updated 08 April 2025