Manchester
School of Art
MA Show
2013

My primary area of interest is in the Holocaust particularly relating to memory. I am currently writing about how the extensive material - both from primary and secondary sources - that exists on the subject can be reinterpreted from my own perspective both textually and through drawing. A leitmotif in my practice is identifying / representing? the 'gap' / lacuna (Agamben) between memory and experience / testimony. My central focus is the Holocaust and how we now access the huge archive of material, photographic, written and spoken, nearly 60 years later and indeed what the significance of this elapsed time (in the context of testimony) means. I am also interested in the many creative and philosophical ideas and outcomes that have been generated as a result of these events. My own work is a confluence of drawing, photography and critical writing and is inextricably bound to my own personal histories and genealogy.

I have taught art and design for 26 years mostly in higher education. I am responsible for the integration of Critical Theory and Context on the undergraduate programmes at Stockport College. I also teach practice on the illustration programme.

stockport.academia.edu/GarySpicer

www.garyspicer.net