Bronaċ Ferran

Bronaċ Ferran holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London (2023) for her thesis, ‘Autopoetics: Hansjörg Mayer’s Titles of the Nineteen-Sixties’, which is avilable open access here. She is a former director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England and worked from 2007-2014 as a Senior Tutor, Research, Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art. From 2014, she was an advisor to Professor Andrew Prescott, during his period as AHRC Digital Transformations Research Fellow. Their work together included a series of radio programmes entitled ‘Making Conversations’ and an exhibition entitled Design and the Concrete Poem, at the Lighthouse in Glasgow.

Ferran is now best-known for her art writing, bridging post-war practices in art, language and technological domains and present-day digital cultural processes; she has been commissioned by galleries internationally including LACMA, Los Angeles; Tate Modern and Victoria Miro. She writes regular reviews for Studio International magazine.

Her essay for NCACE, ‘Rewilding the Stems’(2023) drew on aspects of her doctoral thesis whilst spinning this into the present. Her latest commission for NCACE, reflecting on knowledge exchange across art and science borders, and innovative approaches to collaboration, openness and ownership, will be published early in 2026.

NCACE Associate