Glen Coutts
Glen Coutts is a Professor of Applied Visual Arts Education and a Docent. He was Reader in art and design education at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow until April 2010. Leader of the Applied arts and visual culture special interest group of the Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design network. He writes regularly about issues in art education and is currently a Vice President of the International Society for Education through Art and Principal Editor of the International Journal of Education through Art. In addition, he contributes regularly to academic conferences as a chair of sessions and as invited keynote speaker. In 2016, he was awarded the Ziegfeld Award for outstanding international leadership in art education by the United States Society for Education through Art.
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RESEARCH
Prof Coutts’ teaching and research focuses on the interface between formal and informal art education and, particularly, the pedagogical potential of community-based art practices.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Coutts, G., & Jokela T. (2016) Art, Community and Context: Educational Perspectives. In Enid Zimmerman, Steve Willis, & Marjorie Cohee Manifold (Eds.) pp. 136 – 146. Cultural Sensitivity in a Global World: A handbook for teachers. Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.
Jokela, T., & Coutts, G. (Eds.). (2014). Relate North 2014: Engagement, Art and Representation. Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press.
Jokela, T., & Coutts, G. (Eds.). (2015). Relate North: Art, Heritage & Identity. Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press.
Jokela, T., Coutts, G., Huhmarniemi, M & Harkonen, E. (Eds.). (2013). COOL: Applied Visual Arts in the North. Rovaniemi: Publications of the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland. Series C. Overviews and Discussions 41.
Research output
http://www.glencoutts.com
https://fi.linkedin.com/in/glencoutts
Prof Coutts’ teaching and research focuses on the interface between formal and informal art education and, particularly, the pedagogical potential of community-based art practices.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Coutts, G., & Jokela T. (2016) Art, Community and Context: Educational Perspectives. In Enid Zimmerman, Steve Willis, & Marjorie Cohee Manifold (Eds.) pp. 136 – 146. Cultural Sensitivity in a Global World: A handbook for teachers. Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.
Jokela, T., & Coutts, G. (Eds.). (2014). Relate North 2014: Engagement, Art and Representation. Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press.
Jokela, T., & Coutts, G. (Eds.). (2015). Relate North: Art, Heritage & Identity. Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press.
Jokela, T., Coutts, G., Huhmarniemi, M & Harkonen, E. (Eds.). (2013). COOL: Applied Visual Arts in the North. Rovaniemi: Publications of the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland. Series C. Overviews and Discussions 41.
Research output
http://www.glencoutts.com
https://fi.linkedin.com/in/glencoutts
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My artwork draws on the landscape and history of where I was born in Glasgow and includes the Firth of Clyde area. Located in the west coast of Scotland, this is the largest and deepest area of costal water in the British Isles. The images are about aspects of the landscape, its cultural and industrial heritage, from fishing and shipbuilding to the sinister presence of the United Kingdom nuclear submarine fleet. In addition, the jobs and working tools of the people who live, or have lived, there feature in the images.
The way I work reflects my thoughts about this place and the work of the people who live there: complex, layered and nuanced. The limited edition digital prints form a body of work I have been making recently that combine drawing, photography and mixed media. The works are a personal, sometimes political and occasionally playful, response to the ways that a place has changed and is being changed, by human activity.
My artwork draws on the landscape and history of where I was born in Glasgow and includes the Firth of Clyde area. Located in the west coast of Scotland, this is the largest and deepest area of costal water in the British Isles. The images are about aspects of the landscape, its cultural and industrial heritage, from fishing and shipbuilding to the sinister presence of the United Kingdom nuclear submarine fleet. In addition, the jobs and working tools of the people who live, or have lived, there feature in the images.
The way I work reflects my thoughts about this place and the work of the people who live there: complex, layered and nuanced. The limited edition digital prints form a body of work I have been making recently that combine drawing, photography and mixed media. The works are a personal, sometimes political and occasionally playful, response to the ways that a place has changed and is being changed, by human activity.