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Curriculum Vitae 1

Teaching and Lecturing

PERSONAL DETAILS
Date and place of birth:
27 December 1958, England.
 
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
1977–81
Byam Shaw School of Art, London
London Diploma in Art and Design with Distinction
Diploma in Fine Art, Painting.
 
1982–85
Royal College of Art, London
MA, RCA  (Painting)
 
EMPLOYMENT
1987 to date
University of Brighton, Brighton
Tutor and Lecturer in Fine Art on the BA and MA programmes.

​1989–93
Byam Shaw School of Art, London
Lecturer and Tutor: B.A. Fine Art and Fine Art Foundation.

1993
Lecture at the Tate Gallery, London: ‘Space: The Condition for Resonance and Meaning in the Works of Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti’.
 
1993 to 1998
Broadmoor Special Hospital (High Security Psychiatric Prison)
Lecture series: ‘The Art of Ancient and Modern Cultures throughout the World’ (Compared modes of representation, philosophical backgrounds and the technical dimensions of art in different civilisations ranging from European, Arab to African and Asian).
Regular lectures on art.
Drawing and painting workshops.
 
1996–98
Chiswick Community School, Adult Education courses, London.
Lecture series: ‘An Investigation into the Language of European Painting’ (Acquainted tutees with the technical, compositional and symbolic systems of European painting, and the way these change according to the philosophy and demands of different times).
 
1997 to 2007
 Oxford and Cherwell College, Banbury
Visiting Tutor and Lecturer on the Foundation Course and the BA Fine Art Painting Course;
Drawing workshops for beginners and advanced students.
Lectures on Art History from the Lascaux Cave Painting through to the present day. Focusing on techniques and visual ideas.
 
1998–2000
In Tokyo: Art Reviewer for Tokyo Q, an Internet magazine for what’s on in Tokyo:  www.tokyoq.com Articles include:
Masamichi Yamamoto Sculpture Exhibition.
Suzuki Shoji: An artist who disappeared from post-war art history.
Bohemian Tokyo; Ikebukuro Montparnasse.
Magnificent Understatement; Modern Japanese Tea Ceremony Utensils.
Nishi-Shinjuku Sculptures.
 
2001 to 2003
Christie’s Education, London.
Gallery talks at the National Gallery, the Courtauld Institute and Tate Modern for Christie’s Education programme for foreign students. Combining English Language Teaching with lectures on art.
Lectures on drawing, and the methods and techniques in modern and contemporary painting and how these affect content and meaning.
 
Inscape Fine Art Study Tours.
Lectures on methods and techniques in painting from the Early Renaissance to the present day, carried out in the galleries of the major museums.
‘The Alchemy of Painting: A Painter’s View’
- Study day focusing on 18th century painting at the National Gallery.
‘How Did They Do It?’
- Five study days at the National Gallery, the Courtauld Institute, Tate Modern and finishing with technical demonstrations in the studio.
 
2003 to 2004
Oxford University Continuing Education:  
1. 10 lecture course: Japanese Art;  
2. 10 lecture course: The Influence of Oriental Art on European and American Art. 
Undergraduate Certificate Course in the History of Art: annual lectures: (5 lectures) Materials and Techniques in European Painting from Giotto to contemporary.
 
2004 to 2006
Oxford University Continuing Education: 
20 lecture course: ‘Materials, Techniques and Visual Language of European and American Painting;’ charting changes in visual and technical ideas and the relation these have to content and the way paintings can be ‘read’, from the Early Renaissance to Contemporary Painting. 

Cambridge University International Summer School: 
Plenary Lecture: ‘The Influence of Japanese Art on European and American Art’. 

Inscape Fine Art Study Tours: 
8 week course: ’How Did They Do It’;
visual and technical ideas in painting up to Delacroix; Impressionism and Post Impressionism;
British Modernism;
International Modernism;
Contemporary.

 
‘Exotic Encounters’, lecture and study day at the V&A in relation to the exhibition of that title.
 
Inscape Fine Art Study Tours:
‘Making Your Mark’, Intensive drawing workshop.

Oxford University Summer School for Adults
1 week course: Drawing on Drawings from the Oxford Collections.

Cambridge University International Summer School
3 day course: Surface and Depth (in painting)
Lecture: A Survey of Chinese Painting from the Tang Dynasty to Contemporary Art.
 

2006-2008
Oxford University Continuing Education:
10 lecture course: Chinese Painting; Philosophy and Iconography of landscape. (10 lectures)
 
Inscape Fine Art Study Tours:
Masks: 5 study days and workshops exploring the concepts of masks and masking; British Museum and Tate Modern.
Materials of contemporary painting: 4 workshops
 
Education Development Officer for Art-Sense:
Organising art workshops for people who are blind or visually impaired.

Lectures for Cambridge University International Summer School : (Chinese Painting From the Tang Dynasty to Contemporary; Techniques and Ideas in Contemporary Painting)
 
Oxford University Continuing Education
10 lecture course: Chinese Painting, Philosophy and Iconography of Landscape
 
Oxford University Summer School for Adults:
1 week course: Surface and Depth in Painting; part practical part Art Theory
 
Oxford Brookes University:
12 lectures; Art from 1950 to Contemporary.

2013
Christies, Hong Kong: 2 lectures on the impact of contemporary Western painting on painting in China and the Far East, to coincide with Art Basle.

2016

NADFAS local branch in Cheltenham; 2 Lectures: Manet, Van Gogh and Japan; Monet.
Luborimov and Angus-Hughes Gallery, East London. Lecture: 'The Sublime', coinciding with the exhibition of that title at the gallery.
​Current Posts
University of Brighton 0.2 FTE BA Fine Art Painting.
Oxford University: Undergraduate Certificate Course in the History of Art: Materials and Techniques of Painting: historical to contemporary (1 unit, 5 lectures annually)

2017

Member of the Arts Society, www.theartssociety.org  

Lectures in China 2010-2015
Lectures on my painting
Lectures on the University of Brighton, School of Art Design and Media, and fine art education at UK universities
Chongqing University of Science and Technology,
Leshan University,
Fuling University  
Beihang University,
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