Our staff
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Justin Sanders
Senior Technician - Fine Art Printmaking
Justin works across multiple printmaking processes including stone lithography, Relief, Intaglio and digital methodologies to create works that respond to the variances possible through printmaking, and about his responses to the world around him. These can include travel and landscape(s), food and embracing his male...
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Franziska Schenk
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Franziska is an artist, researcher and educator whose practice has been located at the interface of Art, Science and Ecology for more than two decades. Notably, she has collaborated with scientists from the emerging fields of biomimetics and bio-photonics to introduce latest nature-inspired ‘smart’ materials and methodologies...
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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 Birmingham City University. 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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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 Birmingham Institute of Creative Arts
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
Reader in Research Practice
Dr Sian Vaughan is Reader in Research Practice with expertise in doctoral education and creative research methods. She is Director of Research for RAAD – research in art, architecture, and design (REF UoA32) where she provides strategic leadership, coordination, and care for a growing community of researchers. As Reader in...
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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. 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
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Art
Dr Lauren Walden's first degree was in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Spanish) at the University of Cambridge. Having gained linguistic fluency, her cultural interests broadened beyond literature and an interest in visual arts and cultural institutions emerged. This was initially met by a Masters in Museum Studies at...
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Dr Anita Xiaoming Wang
Research Associate
Dr. Anita Xiaoming Wang is Research Associate to the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University. From 01.2015 to 02.2018, she completed an Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Chinese art history at the State Art Collection Dresden (SKD), Germany. During the last year of her...