Orcid iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8361-2595
Education
PhD Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design
BA Honours, Practice and Theory of Visual Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design
BA Honours, Theology, Oxford University
Research outputs
2021 –
Ferguson, N. 2023. ‘After Flight. Visions from London Heathrow’. Futures. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103222
Ferguson, N. 2023. ‘Migrating Landscapes’. Transfers. Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. Volume 12, No. 2. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2022.120203
(2022) An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm, Mobilities, DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2136996.
Ferguson, N and Hahn, A. 2021. ‘Landscapes of Heathrow. The Aircraft Landing Gear Compartment and the Politics of Global Transfer’. Anthropocenes. Volume 2, Issue 1, May 2021. Available at: https://www.anthropocenes.net/article/id/930/
2014 to 2020
Ferguson, N. 2019. Air Matters. Learning from Heathrow. Oct. 19- Jan. 2020. Watermans Arts Centre, London TW8 0DS, https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/air-matters-learning-from-heathrow
Ferguson, N. 2019. Dwelling as Resistance. Heathrow Expansion and the Art of Dissent. Places Journal. Available at: https://placesjournal.org/article/dwelling-as-resistance/
Ferguson N. 2017. ‘The Monuments of Kings Cross. a Visit to the New Ruins of London’. Journal of Cultural Geography. Vol. 34 No.1. Feb. 2017. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2016.1231372
Ferguson. N. 2015. ‘Futuro Estate’. In: Imitation Game, curated by Alexandra MacGilp, Maraya Art Park. Sharjah, UAE. Available at: http://maraya.ae/exhibitions/view/imitation-game/37
Ferguson, N. 2015. ‘Speedscaping’. In: Macay, R (ed.). 2015. When Site Lost the Plot. Urbanomic.
Ferguson. N. 2015. The Mobile Landscape. Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames, London. Online version available at: https://www.stanleypickergallery.org/online-works/nick-ferguson-the-mobile-landscape/
Talks and Conference Contributions
Ferguson, N. 2023. ‘Border Force. Governing Sensation Beyond the Airport Perimeter’. Climate Changed Geographies. Royal Geographic Society and IBG Aug. 29 – Sept. 1, 2023.
Research and the Public Good. March 15 and 29. Centre for Learning and Teaching. Richmond the American University, London. (Organiser and Convenor).
Ferguson, N. 2022. ‘Pandemic Landscapes. Observations from London Heathrow’. Geographies Beyond Recovery. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. Newcastle, Aug. 30 – Sept. 02, 2022
Ferguson, N. 2021. ‘After the Airport City’. Borders, Borderlands and Bordering, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. London, Aug. 31 – Sept. 03, 2021
Taking it to the Streets. The Role of Public Art Post COVID. IVAC, Richmond the American University, Sept 17, 2021.
‘Penumbra. Six Pandemic Walks in and around Heathrow Airport’. Exhibition [online] curated Kaya Barry and Jen Southern as part of: Im/mobile Lives in Turbulent Times. Methods and Practices in Mobilities Research. Northumbria University. July 8 – 9 2021. Available at: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/art-mobilities/nick-ferguson/
‘Migrating Landscapes’. Unruly Landscapes: Mobility, Transience and Transformation Colloquium. June 18 -19, 2020. MoHu, University of Padova and CeMoRe, Lancaster University.
‘Politics of Air’. Air Matters Symposium. Watermans Arts, London, November 9, 2019. (Organiser and Convenor).
‘Airspace Matters. Aircraft Wheel-wells and the Political Geography of Air at London Heathrow’. Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London, August 2019.
‘Building Flying Thinking’. Art and Mobilities Inaugural Symposium. Lancaster University, July 2019. Pop up journal available at: https://www.academia.edu/37180057/2018_Art_and_Mobilities_Network_Inaugural_Symposium_Instant_Journal_Peter_Scott_Gallery_
‘Capsule’. Landscape and Evidence Roundtable, Kingston School of Art, July 2019.
“…nonart is more art than Art art”. Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, January 2018
‘Dwelling as Resistance. The case of Transition Heathrow’ Geographies of Inequalities. 7th Nordic Geographers Meeting, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, 18 – 21st June 2017
London is Open. Cultural Diplomacy in Post Brexit Britain. Richmond University, London, March 2017. Symposium Organiser
‘Gender, Meaning and Place’. Urban Encounters, Urban Materialities. Tate Modern and Goldsmiths, London, October 2016. Panel Chair.
Teaching a Fox to Appreciate Art. TED talk. ISH, The Hague, October 2016. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHY9s4naWOI
Speed, Space, Suburbia. Artist’s Talk. Maraya Arts Centre, Sharjah, UAE, 9 November 2015
‘Country End – Town End’, Kings Cross Symposium: In this Neck of the Woods, Central St Martins, London, June 2015.
Speedscaping. Performance Lecture, Stanley Picker Gallery, London. May 13, 2015
Ferguson, N and Kim, K. 2015. ‘P/U/B -Topos. Art Research, the English Public House and the Dialectics of Drunken Knowledge’. Transvaluation. Making the World Matter, Gothenburg, May 2015
Kate Corder and Nick Ferguson. HOW: Heathrow Orchard Walk. ‘Harmondsworth to the Heathrow Sheraton’. April 2015.
Re-visioning the Urban. International Visual Arts & Cultures Colloquium, Richmond, the American University in London. 14 November 2014. Panel Chair
Architecture and Sculpture: Alliances. Across RCA. Royal College of Art, 28 October 2014. Speaker
The Aesthetics of Indifference. International Visual Arts & Cultures Colloquium, Richmond, the American University in London. 7 March 2014. Speaker
Urban Encounters. Urban Materialities. Tate Britain. 5 October 2013. Speaker and round table panel member.
Art and Publicness: The Role of Public Art in the Development of New Forms of Publicity, SKOR & Goldsmiths Art Research Symposium, Goldsmiths College, 21 – 22 March 2011. Speaker
In, Out, Shake it All About: Objects, Artists and Ontology, Goldsmiths Art Research Symposium, Goldsmiths College, 9 – 10 May 2011. Speaker and organiser
Research as Catastrophe, Goldsmiths Art Research Symposium, Goldsmiths College, 6 – 8 Dec. 2010. Speaker and Organiser
Money, Space, Art. This is Not a Gateway, Festival of Cities. Hanbury Hall, Hanbury Street, London 22 – 23 Oct. 2010. Speaker
The East London Line: The Role of Visual Artists and Collaborative Practice in the Process of ‘Regeneration’. Nick Ferguson in discussion with artists Harold Offeh, Hilary Powell and Mark Wayman. Artprojx Space, Beacham Place, London. Thurs 26 June 2008
Remembering the Future: Cultural Memory and the Politics of Transformation. The Magical Mysterious Regeneration Tour Conference. Artists, Architecture and the Future of the City. Tate Liverpool, 18th – 20th June 2008
My Space? Contesting the London 2012 Olympic Park. Appropriating Space Symposium, Goldsmiths College. 22nd – 23rd February 2008
Can a Space Be Empty? (Panel discussion) Appropriating Space Symposium, Goldsmiths College, University of London. 22nd – 23rd February 2008
Exhibitions (other than those listed above under research 2014 – present)
Art Night Open. 2019. Nick Ferguson and Adrian Lee. Site/Ad-Site. Info available at: https://2019.artnight.london/artist/nick-ferguson-and-adrian-lee/
Deptford X Fringe. 2018. Nick Ferguson and Adrian Lee. Site/Ad-Site. Info available at: http://nickferguson.co.uk/site-ad-site/
The View from the Road. 2015. Goldsmiths Art Research Space, Feb 23 – Mar 5, 2015
Creekside Open, APT Gallery, Deptford, London, June – July 11
Cube Open, Cube Gallery, Portland Street, Manchester, Nov.- Jan. 11
Fox Training Tower, London Festival of Architecture, Teddington, Middlesex, June 10
Creekside Open, APT Gallery, Deptford, London, June 09
WRO 09, 13th Media Art Biennale, Centrum Sztuki Wro, Wroclaw, Poland, May – June 09
Outcasting Season 7, 116 Paget Street, Grangetown, Cardiff. CF11 7LA, March – April 09
Retrofuture, Fulham Palace, London, June 07
Mending It, The Parfitt Gallery, Barclay Road, Croydon, Jan – Feb 07
Festival. Space Station Sixty Five, London SE 16, July 06
Kingston Open, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames, June 05
Fleamarket II, Temporarycontemporary, Seager Distillery, London, SE22, March 05
Video Lounge, South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5, Feb 05 – May 05
Do Something, Floating IP, 8 Loom Street, Manchester M4 6AN, June – Aug.’ 04
Careful What You Wish For, Seven Seven Gallery, London E3, June ‘ 04
Flea Market, Temporarycontemporary, Seager Distillery, London, SE22, May ‘ 04
Lookout Unit. The Economist Plaza, St James’s, London W1, May – June ‘ 03
Wish You Were Here, Static Gallery, Liverpool, Nov. ’02
Arcadia in The City, Marble Hill House, Richmond upon Thames, June – Aug.’ 02
Signs of Life. Metronome Publication Launch, The Former Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, London, March ‘ 02
Why Me Not You?, The Polish Cultural Institute, London W1, Sept. ‘ 01
Appropriate Remark. Wyspa Progress Foundation, Gdansk, May ‘ 01
Top Buzzer. The Bathhouse Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Sept. ‘ 99
2019 Arts Council England Project Grant
2016 £3,000 Kingston University Research Development Fund
2010. Cube Open 2010. Prize winner, Cube Gallery, Centre for the Built Environment, Portland Street, Manchester
December 2005 – January 2006. Parfitt Gallery, Barclay Road, Croydon: artist in residence
February – June 1999. The Bathhouse Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk: artist in residence
1999. The British Council, Warsaw: Overseas artists exhibition fund
Other Publications
Air Matters. Learning from Heathrow. 2019. The Ecologist. The Journal for The Post Industrial Age. October 11, 2019. Available at. https://theecologist.org/2019/oct/11/air-matters-learning-heathrow
‘Hydra’s Discourse. Each Head Cut Off Grew Seven More’ Texte Zur Kunst. Issue Nr.82. June 2011
Aernout Mik, Artvehicle [online] AV 11, March 2007. Available at: http://www.artvehicle.com/events/152
Juneau/Projects/:, Woodcraft Folk. Artvehicle [online] AV 8, January 2007. Available at: http://www.artvehicle.com/events/170
Elizabeth Price: A Public Lecture and Exhumation. Artvehicle AV 6, December 2006. Available at: http://www.artvehicle.com/events/191
Mark Wayman: An East London Border. Artvehicle [online] AV 28, November 2007 Available at: http://www.artvehicle.com/events/59
Patrick Keiller: The City of the Future. Artvehicle [online] AV 29, January 2008. Available at: http://www.artvehicle.com/events/56
Emergency Eyewash, Metronome No. 8. December 2001
Emergency Eyewash, Metronome No. 8. December 2001
Signs of Life, Metronome No. 8. December 2001