Howard Riley is Professor of Visual Communication and Head of the School of Research & Postgraduate Studies. He studied at Hammersmith College of Art, Coventry College of Art and the Royal College of Art. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wales for research into the practice and teaching of drawing. He has taught drawing and the history and theory of art and design in Australia and Malaysia as well as the UK, and his work has been exhibited in Australia, Finland and the UK, including the Wales Drawing Biennale touring show, 2005-6, and a series of  exhibitions with the Opus group, 2009-10-11. (http://opusartists.wordpress.com)

Riley has supervised and examined at both MPhil and PhD levels, and was a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College, 2007-10. He is a co-editor of Tracey, the online journal of drawing research (www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey) and a member of the steering group of the National Association for Fine Art Education (www.nafae.org.uk/about/staff/Howard-Riley/) Inquiries and proposals of research, collaboration or examination in the following relevant fields are welcome:

Research interests include the pedagogy of drawing, visual semiotics, generative art (see publications at: www.generativeart.com) , multi-modality, and the relationship between drawing and dyslexia, this last topic a collaboration with members of the Royal College of Art's Drawing and Dyslexia research group.
See Academia website: http://swansea-metro.academia.edu/HowardRiley

Successful research supervisions include:

• Angela Hughes PhD (A Systemic-Functional Semiotic Approach to Narrative Film)

• William Thomas PhD (The Artist as Social Observer in the Age of Global Communication Technology)

• Rob Newell PhD (Landscape Painting: A Viable Genre)

• Paul Jeff PhD (Performed Photography)

• Karen Ingham PhD (Sci-Art)

  Eilish O'Donohoe MPhil (Semiotics of Image/Text Works)

  Bella Kerr MPhil (Representation of Domestic Spaces in Art and the Novel)

Current PhD topics under supervision include:

• Richard Monahan (The Practice of Drawing in Contemporary Art Education)

• Mark Cocks (Digital Photography in Higher Education)

   

Some recent publications:

• `Including Dyslexics: Indicators of Dyslexia in Art Students' Drawings`. Jointly authored with Qona Rankin (RCA) and Mary Davies (Study Support Tutor, Swansea). In Myerson, J. and Bilsland, C. (eds.) Include 2007 Conference Book. London: Royal College of Art. http://www.ektakta.com/include-proceedings/authors.php

• `Beyond the Horizon: Future Directions for the Teaching of Visual Arts Practice`. In Journal of Visual Arts Practice. Vol.6 No.1 pp73-80.

• `Firing Practice: Drawing as Empowerment`. In Journal of Visual Art Practice.Vol.1 No.3 pp150-161.

• `Mapping the Domain of Drawing`. In The International Journal of Art & Design Education. Vol.23 No.3 pp258-272.

• `Perceptual Modes, Semiotic Codes, Social Mores: a Contribution towards a Social Semiotics of Drawing`. In Visual Communication. Vol.3 No.3 pp294-315.

• `An Art Pedagogy for a Changing Artworld: What is to be Done?` In The International Journal of the Arts in Society. Vol.2 No.5 pp63-66. Available at http://ija.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.85/prod.253

• `Drawing: Towards an Intelligence of Seeing`. Chapter in Garner, S.(ed.)2008 Writing on Drawing. Bristol/Chicago: Intellect/Univ. of Chicago Press.

• `Enhancing Visual Delight: The Tension between Surface Qualities and Illusory Depth in Drawing`. In Houghton, N. (ed.)2008`Enhancing Curricula: Using Research and Enquiry to Inform Student Learning` London: CLTAD pp215-227. (Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the Centre for Learning & Teaching in Art & Design`, New York, April 2008).

• `Making Sense of Art: The Relationship between Art Criticism and Theories of Visual Hermeneutics`. In The International Journal of the Arts in Society. Vol.4 2009 pp1-6.

  'Inclusive Practice: Researching the Relationship between Maths Ability and Drawing
  Ability in Art Students.' Co-authors Brunswick, N., Chamberlain, R., McManus,
  C., Rankin, Q. In Include 2011 Conference  Proceedings. London: Royal College of Art. ISBN 978-1-907342-29-5.
  Available at http://include11.kinetixevents.co.uk/4dcgi/prog

  'Visual Art and Social Structure: The Social Semiotics of Relational Art'. In Proceedings of the

   6th International Conference on the Arts in Society, Berlin, May 2011.

  'Drawing, Gesture and Semiotics: An Exploration of the Semiotic Potential of Gesture Drawing'.

  Co-author, Roberts, A. In Corte-Real, E. (ed.) 2011 Senses and Sensibility in

  the Right Place. Proceedings of the 6th UNIDCOM/IADE International

  conference, Lisbon, Oct. 2011.

   

Students:

Richard Monahan