Dr Glad Fryer
Artist, Painter, Senior Lecturer, Co-Director of FPP,
Falmouth University, UK
Research interests: The reception and generation of image. The material image. Phenomenology. Personal, political, ethical and aesthetic relations in the Posthuman paradigm. Eco-Ontology, Embodied experience. Animism and agency.
Glad Fryer is an artist and educator who works across drawing, painting, performance, film, writing and installation. He’s interested in seeing, memory, and the role of practice in holding complexity. His current work responds to landscape and layered perception. As project lead for FPP, he brings critical care and attention to structure — making space for painters to meet, talk and keep looking.
To make a painting – to engage in painterly processes – to properly look at paintings, with purposeful awareness and sensitivity; is to occupy an entangled, thorny ground, between ontological becoming and cultural or sociological emergence. The complexities at play, from meta to micro, from digital to material, travel beyond the scope of our anthropocentric imaginings. So, who better than painting to accompany us? What better compass, map, and methodology than a painting? My hope is that the Falmouth Painting Platform can hold a space for complexity and exchange.
Jonty Lees
Artist, Painter, Course Leader BA(Hons) Fine Art, Co-Director of FPP, Falmouth University, UK
Research interests: Jonty Lees values painting as a way of thinking, open-ended, patient, and grounded in repetition. His work often involves basic patterns or quiet structures that unfold over time. He’s interested in what emerges when a process is followed through, and in the rhythm and attention that chosen process demands.
I’m interested in the Falmouth Painting Platform because I want to support painters who use painting to navigate the world, not just to produce work. I don’t have a fixed strategy, but I know when something feels honest, when it holds weight. My role in FPP is shaped by that: I want it to be serious, open, lively, and sharp. I’m drawn to persistence, intent, and the lived rhythm of making. I lead the Fine Art BA at Falmouth and enjoy daily conversations about practice with staff and students. I make work, and I’ve organized shows. FPP is about creating conditions to talk, show, and think, and to see where that might lead.