Alistair Rider teaches in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, and researches art from the 1950s to the present. He completed his doctoral dissertation on minimal art from the United States at the University of Leeds in 2005 and was a Henry Moore Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York during 2007 and 2008. He is the author of Carl Andre: Things in their Elements (2011) and James Howell: Infinite Array (2021), and has published articles on many aspects of late twentieth-century European and North American art. Rider’s current interests include histories of modern and contemporary sculpture, durational art practices, art and environmentalism, and the legacies of abstraction. Rider first wrote about Ken Dingwall’s work when several of his Constructions were exhibited at the University of St Andrews in 2012.