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 – present

Ferguson N. 2024. ‘Pandemic Landscapes’. In: Joseph-Lester, J, Kahane, A King, S and Leslie, E, Walking Cities, Routledge.  

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

Barry, K; Southern, J; Baxter, T;  Blondin, S, Booker, C;  Bowstead, J; Butler, C;  Dillon, R; Ferguson, N; Filipska,G; Hieslmair, M; Hunt, L; Ianchenko, A; Johnson, P; Keane, J;  Koszolko, M; Qualmann, C; Rumsby, C; Oliveira, C; Schleser, M; Sodero, S; Soliz, A; Wilson, LA; Wood H; Zinganel M.  (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, Workshops and Conference Contributions

Ferguson, N with First draft. 2023. In Pursuit of Legacy. Walking a Straight Line from India Gate to the Seat of Power. Feb. 23, 2024.

Ferguson,  N. Being There? Adventures in Remote Aesthetics, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi. Jan.- Feb., 2024.

Ferguson, N. 2024. Airport as Wilderness. Shiv Nadar University, Delhi. Jan. 16 2023.

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