Dr Daniel Fountain (they/he)

Dr Daniel Fountain is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture and Director of Postgraduate Research. Daniel is an artist, curator and researcher specialising in queer art and visual culture, with a particular focus on craft. Their publications include Crafted with Pride (University of Chicago Press and Intellect Books, 2023), and the forthcoming monograph Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). Their writing appears in prestigious journals such as GLQ, Art History, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, and TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture.

Daniel has led a number of innovative research projects for public engagement and impact. They often work in collaboration with non-academic partners and have been commissioned by international organisations such as the Crafts Council, National Museums Liverpool, and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art to lead on LGBTQ+ exhibitions and programming. Daniel's work has been exhibited extensively and has been featured in leading art and design publications, including Surface Design Journal, Crafts, and Embroidery: The Textile Art Magazine. They have delivered keynote addresses and research papers at venues including the Whitworth Art Gallery, the Museum for Art in Wood, and Tate.

An experienced educator, Daniel has taught across art history, theory and practice from undergraduate to doctoral level at fifteen institutions in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. They hold a PhD in Feminism, Sexual Politics and Visual Culture from Loughborough University, where they also taught. A committed advocate for equality, diversity, and inclusion, Daniel holds several leadership roles within the University, including as an elected member of University Senate, Coordinator of the LGBTQ+ Staff Network, and as Non-Binary Representative of the Gender Equality Group.