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Gary Spicer
Gary Spicer is an artist and writer living in the northwest of England on the edge of the Peak District in Macclesfield, Cheshire. He is a senior lecturer in contextual studies at Stockport College, where he is also head of the school of art. His current practice has evolved from his Masters in 2012, where the subject of the holocaust, holocaust memory and his own Jewish genealogy (his father was Jewish; his mother was not) began to emerge. His practice-led Ph.D. research, being undertaken at Manchester Metropolitan University, is predicated on the question of why he is drawn to sites of holocaust memory and how it might be possible to use drawing as a tool to excavate a past personally unlived. His aim is to use drawing and writing as a personal graphology and a means of archaeology in the production of a synthesized creative response to specific sites of holocaust memory.