animawiki

http://steve-baker.com/

Steve Baker is a Norwich-based artist and writer. He is Professor of Research for Art and Media at the University of Derby, and Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Central Lancashire. He is an artist-member of OUTPOST, the Norwich 20 Group and the national Land2 research network, and is an associate of the Melbourne-based AEGIS research network for arts and ecology. Since 2010 his work has been exhibited in the UK, USA, Australia and Europe, and has featured in major animal-themed museum shows in Poland and Germany. In 2020 it will be included in As Kingfishers Catch Fire at the Limerick City Gallery of Art. Baker’s academic writings over the past twenty-five years have contributed to the development of the field of animal studies in the arts, humanities and social sciences. His books include Artist|Animal, The Postmodern Animal and Picturing the Beast. Selected writings have been translated into seven languages, and his work is included in Routledge’s Animals and Society: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, Berg’s The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings, and the Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies.