David Haines’ work exists at the intersection between the traditional and contemporary (technical) image. Working with a variety of media—from painting and drawing through to music and moving image—the work addresses ideas around what it means to make and look at images in our digitally-drenched society. Haines works from out of the premise that technique is a language, that the image is both an anthropological and sociological object and that the experience of looking (at art) is essentially spatial, formed out of a symbiotic relationship between material and image.
As a core tutor for the Master Lens-based Media, David is responsible for mentor groups and one-to-one tutorials. His teaching focuses on discussions around images: how they communicate, and how they can have agency prior to any researched interpretation. In this light, through looking at and responding to students’ work, he aims to highlight how an image’s materiality, its choice of materials, its register, can enter into dialogue with its subject and generate dialogue.
