Art and Design staff
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Professor Becky Shaw
Professor in Fine Art Practice
Becky Shaw is an artist, researcher and Professor in Fine Art Practice at 探花直播. She makes live, collaborative artworks that examine the tension between individuals, environment, tools and social structures, often in institutions of 'public good' including healthcare, education, utilities and work. ...
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Timm Sonnenschein
Senior Lecturer and Course Director Visual Communication BIFCA
Timm Sonnenschein is a Senior Lecturer and the Course Director of the Visual Communication programme of our Wuhan based 探花直播 Institute of Fashion and Creative Art (BIFCA). Through his professional work as well as his family connections, Timm has extensive knowledge of Chinese culture which he has been able to apply within...
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Ally Standing
Lecturer in Contextual Studies
Ally is a 探花直播-based visual artist and lecturer, with an interdisciplinary practice exploring ideas surrounding the built environment.聽 In her current role, Ally is responsible for the coordination and delivery of Contextual Studies for students on BA Design for Performance, BA Graphic Communication, BA Illustration...
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Dr Jacqueline Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Research Practice
Jacqueline Taylor is an artist, writer, researcher and educator. She is the doctoral education lead for the faculty of Arts, Design and Media where she develops and delivers research training for PhD researchers. Her teaching specialism lies in the area of practice research and she has presented, taught and published widely on...
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Nathan Tromans
Head of the College of Art and Design
Nathan Tromans background as a Photographer, with an interest in contemporary art and music, provides the backbone to his role in encouraging interdisciplinary practice. Managing some 600 students across the UK, Hong Kong and Thailand, Nathan is committed to ensuring courses have vocational relevance and is active in developing...
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Dr Sian Vaughan
Associate Professor in Research Practice
Dr Sian Vaughan is Associate Professor in Research Practice and she leads RAAD 鈥� the centre for research in art, architecture, and design at 探花直播, providing strategic leadership, coordination, and care for a growing community of researchers. Sian is an internationally recognised researcher with...
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Gavin Wade
Senior Research Fellow
Gavin Wade is an award winning artist-curator, influential public gallery director of Eastside Projects and producer and curator of world-class public art, exhibition making, writing, and publishing over the last two decades.聽 Wade is a pragmatic utopian. His practice combines upcycling, re-enactment and developing exhibiting...
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Cathy Wade
Course Leader MA Arts and Education Practices
Cathy is an artist, writer and academic whose work is concerned with how art can be created and distributed in collaborative partnerships and through the creation of commons. Her work seeks to understand the experience of contemporary conditions through social practice and is realised as digital video, print, installation,...
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Dr Lauren Walden
Research Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Art
Dr. Lauren Walden is a Research Fellow (former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) in Contemporary Chinese Art at 探花直播, UK. Her PhD argued for Surrealist photography as a pivotal vector in the dissemination of non-European iconographies as diverse as Africa, Oceania, Latin America and China, utilising primary...
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Dr Anita Xiaoming Wang
Research Associate
Dr. Anita Xiaoming Wang is Research Associate to the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, 探花直播. From 01.2015 to 02.2018, she completed an Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Chinese art history at聽the聽State Art Collection Dresden (SKD), Germany.聽 During the last year of her...