appraisal of the landscape photography of the Korean photographer Yu Byeong-eon(Ahae) (jointly authored with the General Director of the National Gallery in Prague, Milan Knížák), and a second monograph on the artist Bernard Cohen, in which he contests that Cohen's complex abstract works represent an "ongoing search for meaning in its broadest, most human sense." Academia As Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, as well as Art History, McKay has lectured and taught at several UK higher education colleges and universities, including Chelsea School of Art (1985), Surrey Institute of Art & Design (1991), Kingston University (1992–1994), and Southampton Solent University (formerly the Southampton Institute, 1994–2010). As Language Consultant he has contributed to several academic text books, including Repetytorium gimnazjalne and Slownik Nursowy: Indeks angielsko-polski (both for Cambridge University Press). He retired from academia in 2011. Notes and references 1962 births Living people British art critics Non-fiction environmental writers Urban theorists Social historians English–Polish translators Academics of Solent University Academics of Kingston University Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts