Art and Design staff
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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 Birmingham City University, 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, 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...
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Jane Watts
Course Leader - BA (Hons) Textile Design
Jane is an interdisciplinary practitioner, and began her career in textile design. She has since worked as National Craft Advisor for the Women’s Institute in the charity sector, and has 20 years’ experience of teaching in higher education across a range of creative programmes. Alongside running the BA Art Business programme,...
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Helen Wheeler
Course Director BA (Hons) Illustration
Helen Wheeler has been a commercially successful artist for the last 12 years, her work being available in countless high street outlets. She has worked in-house for the UK’s leading greetings card manufacturer, UK Greetings, creating a wide spectrum of products, covering all elements from concept to final production. Clients...
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Stuart Whipps
Senior Lecturer in Photography
I am interested in a broad definition and application of photography and the dialogue between the photographic image and object.
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Esther Windsor
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Art and Design
Esther is a curator, artist, and writer and has curated at Camerawork Gallery and Darkroom, the ICA, The Photographers’ Gallery, and The Royal British Society of Sculptors. Esther established two art school galleries, the waiting room, University of Wolverhampton and mirror, London College of Printing at London Institute (now...
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Hollie Wright
Senior Lecturer in Scenography
Hollie has a passion for immersive environments and dining experiences; having worked as a designer maker with experience in sculptural work and spatial design. Hollie’s professional credits span theatre, puppetry, and music festivals from Glastonbury and Download to 2000 Trees and Kendall Calling. Hollie has been lecturing on...
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Jennifer Wright
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Jennifer Wright is an artist and Senior Lecturer, teaching on B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. Fine Art programmes at Birmingham City University but also visiting and examining other Fine Art course in England and Holland. Originally trained as a painter, Jennifer has exhibited both in the UK and internationally since graduating...
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Osman Yousefzada
Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice
Osman Yousefzada is a British-Pakistani artist and writer, born in Birmingham UK, whose work engages with the representation, rupture and reimagining of the immigrant experience. His work incorporates textiles, print-making, installations, sculpture and performance. Yousefzada’s practice has been described as "defiant", where...