Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
LARC STUDENT PROFILES
paul tranter
Paul Tranter has an MA in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University and started his part-time PhD studies in October 2024.
Paul’s practice is firmly rooted in the landscape of West and North Yorkshire and his PhD
research will investigate the ‘Uncertainty of landscape’.
Looking at the Yorkshire Dales as a palimpsest of geological and social history Paul aims
to develop his artistic practice in response to the multi-layered histories along ‘The Line’,
a transect through the Yorkshire Dales. Exploring places, both geologically and
anthropologically and using his art practice to tell new and forgotten stories about people
and place.
Paul’s practice spans sculpture, performance, photography, video, printmaking and
artist’s books. Much of his work takes place in the landscape, which means he is often
the only audience for his on-site installations. These works are translated into artist’s
books or digitally printed images that cross the boundary between documentary and
primary artwork.
Paul also have a scientific background with a BSc Hons degree in Geography and has a
life long interest in the natural world. In the geology that forms the land we stand on, on the ecology of the spaces we travel through and the changing climate. Studying at Leeds
University in the 1980’s he was one of a cohort of students studying at the very beginning
of climate change theories.
