Dr Daniel Fountain (they/he)

Dr Daniel Fountain is Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Research in Art History and Visual Culture. Daniel is an artist, curator, and historian of modern and contemporary art with specialisms in gender, sexuality, LGBTQ+ culture, and visual activism. They are editor of Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain (University of Chicago Press and Intellect Books, 2023), and author of the forthcoming monograph Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). They have contributed book chapters to four edited volumes and their writing has been published in leading 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. They 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. They have also been invited to deliver keynote addresses and presentations at venues including the Whitworth Art Gallery, the Museum for Art in Wood, and Tate. Daniel's artwork has been exhibited extensively and has been featured in major art and design publications, including Surface Design Journal, Crafts, and Embroidery: The Textile Art Magazine.

An experienced educator, Daniel has taught art and design history, theory and practice from undergraduate to doctoral level at fifteen institutions across 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.