Art and Design staff
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Simon Myers
Lecturer in Visual Communication BIFCA
Simon has a portfolio of market leading illustration, in paper, digital and garment graphic design. His extensive client list includes the BBC’s Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Star Wars, as well as global fashion brands Ted Baker, Top Man and Adidas. Initially invited to teach Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for Coventry...
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Jo Newman
Foundation Course Director and BA course leader
Jo chose a career in education so that she could provide students with learning environments where conversations, ideas and materials can be selected, combined, analysed and shared, offering them a way of socializing, caring and questioning to grow their learning with meaning for their futures. She champions the integration...
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Jason Nicholson
Product Design Course Leader
From a career journey beginning in metalsmithing and related products, Jason has a wide experience in various product design sectors – in particular furniture and lighting design. He has taught across a range of specialist courses, focussing and developing ‘making’ as an integral part of the design process. A ‘hands-on’...
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Rachel Oldfield
Lecturer in Illustration BA (Hons)
Rachel has worked as a successful freelance illustrator for over fifteen years. Her work has been commissioned for use on a wide range of formats including room decor, wall art, book covers, wrapping paper, greeting cards, commercial murals, surface pattern design, including seven published children’s books. She has taught...
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Alis Oldfield
Lecturer
Interested in ecology, magic and technology, Alis’ practice is situated in the blurry boundaries between these things. Her research project imagines the internet as a landscape with ecological systems, as a way to diagnose its health. Not only does the infrastructure and energy demand of the internet have an ecological cost but...
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David Osbaldestin
Course Director for BA (Hons) Art Business
David Osbaldestin is the Interim Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art and Course Leader for BA (Hons) Art and Design. A Creative Director with a passion for typography, David Osbaldestin is using his fine art and design skills to teach the complex art form of the printed letter. He has a wide ranging role at Birmingham...
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William Parslow
Lecturer
Designer and educator Will Parslow has been an anti-disciplinary practitioner since 2014 making work that is experimental and conceptually driven for both commercial and cultural applications. Will has worked with big clients such as: New Balance, Converse, Jaguar Land Rover, Gucci and The National Trust. But, his best work...
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Gay Place
Senior Technician
Gay works as a senior technician at the School of Art, where she is based in the 3D workshops, providing facilities for woodwork, metalwork and casting. She can mostly be found in the plaster room, where Gay offers support for students in various material processes involving mould making, casting and reproduction. Gay also...
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Gareth Proskourine-Barnett
Lecturer and Level 4 Co-ordinator
Gareth Proskourine-Barnett is an artist, researcher and lecturer. Since graduating with an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins in 2011 he has worked on a range of self-initiated and commissioned projects, taken part in artist residencies and delivered workshops internationally. His practice incorporates...
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Theo Reeves-Evison
Senior Lecturer in Theoretical and Contextual Studies
Dr. Theo Reeves-Evison is a writer, researcher and Senior Lecturer in Theoretical and Contextual Studies, where his research focuses on the critical imbrications of Art, Ecology and Visual Culture. From 2018-22 he was the principal investigator on the Leverhulme funded research project ‘Speculative Natures: Contemporary Art...