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Dr Liz Stirling, Senior Lecturer

Dr Liz Stirling

Senior Lecturer

Dr Liz Stirling is a creative practitioner using performance, collaboration, co- production and art activism to explore how we connect with each other. She has performed, published and run projects extensively in the UK including at Tate Britain, Tate Modern Summer School. Her practice explores the relationship between creativity, wellbeing and environment and more recently explores the human relationship to nature through the experience of outdoor swimming.

Dr Stirling is a founder member of the Art Doctors with artist Alison McIntyre, playfully breaking down barriers to participation in arts and culture and exploring the role of creativity in all our lives. The Art Doctors started with the British Art Show 8 in 2015/2016 and have worked across arts and wellbeing with a range of people and organisations across the North. They have worked closely with Chapel FM, Space2, Thackeray Museum, Leeds Museums and Art Gallery as well as social prescribers and health sector workers. They are interested in how creativity can positively affect wellbeing, growing feelings of connectedness and confidence through self-expression and community activity. Art Doctors are currently working with West Yorkshire Libraries on an ACE funded project co-producing kits for social tables in libraries where members of the public can explore their creativity in warm, welcoming hubs.

Dr Stirling has extensive experience of collaborative and co-production work, previously with artist Laura Robinson and as part of the feminist art collective F=. Dr Stirling is a founder member of F= based at Leeds Beckett University. F= embrace humour and playfulness in engaging people in debate around social issues, using spectacle as an invitation for collective action; ritual, public acts, burnings of symbolic objects, exhibitions, performances, pedagogic experiences and disruptive moments.

She has worked on a range of projects using play and non-verbal communication to engage in unique experiences with people across generations and backgrounds. This has often used performance employing mask, low-maintenance costumes and recycled materials to understand through humour and embodied experience the meaning of being a human, and other animals.

Robinson Stirling played and performed in the Tate Britain History Galleries and with teachers/art workers at the Tate Modern Summer School in and around the building and exhibitions. They ran an arts collective 105 Women with women asylum seekers in Leeds and East Street Arts, developing a collective space for learning and sharing creative skills in a safe, equal and social environment.

Current Teaching

  • Graphic Design

Research Interests

Dr Stirling approaches research through practice applying and developing feminist methodologies through each project with an emphasis on equality, collaboration, inclusivity, embodied experience and multiple perspectives. Impact happens at a local level in everyday lives, through public events and published writing, in education and in art environments locally and nationally.

Dr Liz Stirling, Senior Lecturer
Leeds School of Arts

Ask Me About

  1. Co-production
  2. Interdisciplinary
  3. Play
  4. Ecology
  5. Activism
  6. Swimming
  7. Art
  8. Community
  9. Design
  10. Equality and inclusion
  11. Feminism
  12. Teaching
  13. Wellbeing

Selected Outputs

  • Stirling E eds. Long J; Parry J; Sandle D; Spracklen K (2014) Fields of Vision. The Arts in Sport. LSA Publication.

  • Stirling E (2017) Women Visibility and Playful Acts. Annual Walk and Burning Ritual celebrating International Women’s Day in Leeds, UK. In: 14th AHRA Conference, 1 November 2017, Birmingham..

  • Stirling E (2017) Revolting Women & Disobedient Design. In: Graphic Design Educators Network Conference, 1 September 2017, Sheffield Hallam University.

  • Stirling E (2017) Permission to Play. In: Learning Conference, 1 July 2017, Manchester Metropolitan University.

  • Stirling E (2016) 105 Women. In search of a safe, free space for a diverse group of women to meet, make, play, share, learn and exchange skills in. In: 13th AHRA conference, 1 November 2016, Stockholm.

  • Stirling E (2016) Art Doctors, Presentation at Participation Matters. BAS8.

  • Stirling E (2015) Participatory intervention.

  • Stirling E; Hassall J (2014) International Women's Day. In: iJade Conference 2014. Collaborative Practices in Arts Education, 24 October 2014 - 25 October 2014, Tate Liverpool.

  • Stirling E (2013) Symposium of Sorts.

  • Stirling E (2013) ‘Under the beach the pavement’. Co-produced action paper by Graphic Arts and design staff at Storyville: Exploring narratives of learning and teaching.

  • Stirling E (2013) ‘Playing Out.’.

  • Stirling E (2012) ‘Action paper’.

  • Stirling E (2012) The Den Project.

  • Stirling E (2009) From PhD to Post Doc.

  • Stirling E (2009) ‘A place of constraint, a promise of happiness’.

  • Stirling E (2009) ‘The Den Project.’.

  • Stirling E (2008) ‘Research-based teaching practice’.

  • Stirling E ‘Occupy the Wood’ Chapel Allerton Arts Festival. Leeds.

  • Stirling E ‘Resilience’ A Building Gallery, LMU.

  • Stirling E Festival of the Body Leeds City Centre Town Hall.

    More information: http://www.fequals.co.uk/

  • Stirling E We are F= (Speak, Body: Art, the reproduction of Capital and the Reproduction of Life) Conference at University of Leeds. 1 April 2017.

  • Stirling E We are F= (Women in the City) Leeds Beckett University. 1 March 2017.

  • Stirling E 105 Women Union 105, East Street Arts, Chapeltown. 1 September 2015 - 1 December 2015.

    More information: http://105women.blogspot.co.uk/

  • Stirling E Robinson Stirling Photographic pieces from performances for The Cultural Sisters in the The Workshops Exhibition Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. 1 May 2014 - 1 June 2014.

    More information: http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/projects/pigdogandmonkeyfestos

  • Stirling E; McIntyre A (2021) Art Doctors: Creativity and Social Prescribing.

  • Stirling E (2020) Everyday Creativity with the Art Doctors.

  • Stirling E (2015) Project Radio.

  • Stirling E (2015) F=.

  • Stirling E (2012) ‘Groundsheet.’.

  • Stirling E; McIntyre A (2017) The Art Doctors. Engage 40, 40 pp. 102-109.

    https://www.engage.org/engage40

  • Stirling E (2016) Paper, Women Visibility and Playful Acts (Using Play to Empower, Educate and Act in Public Spaces). Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, Vol.3 (No.1),

  • Stirling E (2009) 'Book Review’ of Illustration by Alan Male. T. The Journal of Art & Design in Higher Education, University of the Arts.

  • Stirling E; McIntyre, A; Digby P (2015) Broken Art Collective

  • Stirling E. (n.d.) ‘Digitess’.

  • Stirling E. (n.d.) ‘Dogs’.

  • Stirling E. (n.d.) Art Doctors (Leeds Art Gallery). Art Show 8 and Leeds Arts and Minds.: Leeds Art Gallery.

  • Stirling E. (n.d.) Burn the Bra (Walk and Burning Bra Public Event). Leeds:

  • Stirling E. (n.d.) Festival of the Body. Town Hall, Leeds:

  • Stirling E. (n.d.) This is me. The Gallery, Munro House, Leeds:

  • Stirling E. (2017) Art Doctors (Love Arts Festival). 14 October 2017. Leeds City Art Gallery:

  • Stirling E. (2016) A Big Tri-ump. 1 November 2016. South Square Gallery. Thornton.:

  • Stirling E. (2016) Art Doctors (British Art Show 8 at Norwich Castle and Museum & Norwich School of Art). 1 July 2016. Norwich Castle and Museum & Norwich School of Art: Arts and Minds, Leeds.

  • Stirling E. (2016) Art Doctors (British Art Show 8, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh). 1 May 2016. Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh:

  • Stirling E. (2016) Leeds Cultural Conversations. 1 March 2016. Town Hall, Leeds.:

  • Stirling E. (2015) Art Doctors. British Art Show 8 (Broken Arts Collective). 31 October 2015. Leeds Art Gallery: Broken Arts Collective.

  • Stirling E. (2015) Speak up. 1 September 2015. Culture Capitalism Media, Conferences at University of Leeds:

  • Stirling E. (2015) Broken Arts Collective Joshua Tetley’s Birthday. 1 June 2015. The Tetley:

  • Stirling E. (2015) 'Academic ID’. 1 March 2015. Leeds Central Library Artspace:

  • Stirling E; Robinson L. (2014) Drag. 25 October 2014 - 26 October 2014. Tate Britain, London: Tate Britain.

    http://robinsonstirling.blogspot.co.uk/

  • Stirling E; McIntyre A (2021) Designing a Super Gut.

  • Stirling E (2017) Art Doctors (Leeds City Art Gallery).

  • Stirling E (2016) Tate Modern, Educational Resource.

  • Stirling E (2016) F= how to measure impact?.

  • Stirling E (2015) F=.

  • Stirling E (2015) Performance & paper Symplasium.

  • Stirling E (2015) Dance Hall Daze.

  • Stirling E (2015) After Nature15.

  • Stirling E (2015) Freedom Bin Walk for International Womens Day.

  • Stirling E (2015) Robinson Stirling.

  • Stirling E (2014) ‘Burn The Bra. Collaborative teaching for a public event.’.

  • Stirling E (2014) Story Goddess.

  • Stirling E (2013) ‘Protest’.

  • Stirling E (2013) ‘Magic and Illusion’.

  • Stirling E (2013) ‘Day 1’ of Call & Response, Meschac Gaba’s Museum of Contemporary African Art.

  • Stirling E (2012) Chapel Allerton Arts Festival.

  • Stirling E (2012) Den-making workshops in Harehills School and at Project Space Leeds.

  • Stirling E (2012) Jump and Draw.

  • Stirling E (2012) Participatory Installation and Schools Workshop.

  • Stirling E (2010) ‘42 The Briggate’.