Paul Gough

Gough was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. He graduated from the Polytechnic Wolverhampton in 1979 and the Royal College of Art, London in 1985 with a Master’s degree in Painting.[2] In 1991 he was awarded his PhD on First World War art.[3]

As a painter, Gough has exhibited globally is represented in several permanent art collections – including the National arts Collection Fund, the Imperial War Museum, London; Canadian War Museum, and the National War Memorial, New Zealand.[4]

His most recent exhibitions have been in Melbourne, Australia, London, and Wellington, New Zealand. Gough was elected an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy in 2000.[5]

As an author, Gough has published over 80 academic papers, and nine books [6] which cover the representation of war and peace, including several books on the British artist Stanley Spencer[7] and a study of the work of John and Paul Nash[8] which was published as part of a comprehensive suite of exhibitions, commissions and other events he curated during the centenary period of the First World War (2014–18).[9]

In the past five years, Gough has given conference addresses and keynote speeches in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Macedonia, Belgium, France and UK.[10]

As a broadcaster, Gough worked for a decade as a television presenter, researcher and associate producer on a range of creative arts programmes and documentaries, including the award-winning documentary Redundant Warrior, about the photographer Don McCullin. Gough also has a credit for design research in the Aardman Animations feature film, Chicken Run.[11]

In addition to appointments on education and research panels in UK, Europe, Hong Kong and New Zealand, Gough was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of the West of England, Bristol; and for six years, 2014-2019 Vice-President at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.[12] In 2020, Gough became Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth.[13]