Ben Cranfield
Lecturer in Arts Policy and Management
Contact details
Department of Media and Cultural Studies
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX
email: b.cranfield@bbk.ac.uk
Biography
Ben Cranfield is a Lecturer in Arts Policy and Management and coordinator of Birkbeck’s undergraduate programmes in Arts Management.
His main research interests are in the development of the arts in post-war Britain, focusing on the rise of experimental, curatorial and archival artistic practices during this period.
He has recently submitted a PhD thesis undertaking an archival analysis of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, from inception in 1947 to 1970, as part of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the London Consortium.
In 2007/8 Ben curated a year long programme of discussions on issues of contemporary curating with the ICA, and was contributing editor to How Soon is Now?, the ICA’s 60th Birthday publication.
He has also led workshops, conferences and seminars on interdisciplinarity and research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Ben has worked in the contemporary arts sector as a writer, consultant, researcher, project manager and as a director of a commercial art gallery.
