Our staff
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Dr Catherine Baker
Associate Professor
Dr Catherine Baker studied Fine Art at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design followed by an MA in Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art, completing her PhD by Publication in 2012. As a practising artist and researcher, she has lectured widely and participated in a number of international drawing initiatives including...
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Steve Bulcock
Deputy Head of Art and Design
Steve Bulcock works across a range of digital media including animation, motion graphics and digital drawing systems. His research interests are concerned with challenging the notions and expectations people have in relation to their interactions with digital technology. Recent work has involved collaborations with artist Sean...
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Mona Casey
Course Leader: MA Fine Art
Mona Casey is MA Fine Art Course Director and Birmingham School of Art International Lead. She is also module leader for the MA programme Models and Methods of Curatorial Practice. Mona was born in Ireland and currently lives in the UK, where she works as a curator, artist and researcher. Mona directs and has initiated a...
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Rebecca Court
Associate Professor (Marketing and Recruitment) and Course Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art
Rebecca works across a range of disciplines including performance, installation and sculpture. Her practice focuses on the expanded possibilities of the co-formation of things which emerge through the correlating agency of the co-relational being of objects and agents within the exhibition event. She is interested in the...
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Beth Derbyshire
Course Leader: MA Art and Project Management
Beth is a practising artist who has been working largely in the public realm for over 25 years. Her practice explores the diverse nature of human presence and expression within social and historical registers. Themes have been: silence in society, conflict and collective memory, nationality and identity. Recent works have...
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Professor Anthony Downey
Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa
Dr Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa (Birmingham City University), where his research and teaching focuses on contemporary visual cultures and practice-based research, postcolonial theory and praxis, digital methodologies, machine vision and AI, pedagogical networks, and...
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Andrew Gillespie
Lecturer in Fine Art
Andrew Gillespie is a contemporary artist based in Birmingham. He is interested in the collision of surfaces, structures and materials. He regularly translates familiar imagery and objects through printmaking and casting, exploiting the shift in status and content that occurs with each gesture. He makes composed...
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Lee Hewett
Lecturer in Fine Art and Art and Design
Lee is an artist, designer, researcher and lecturer who works across a range of disciplines including sculpture, books/publications, photography and moving image. Lee has worked on a range of funded research projects, edited journals and also has teaching experience covering a broad range of levels and subject areas including...
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Yvonne Hindle
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Yvonne Hindle is an experienced painter. Her most recent series of paintings, “Somewhere Adrift” and “Almost, Nearly, Not Quite” sit between representation and matter. Yvonne graduated in 1987 with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Her RCA graduation exhibition was awarded a major travel award from the Painters...
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Professor Jiehong Jiang
Head of Research
Professor Jiang Jiehong is Head of Research at School of Art, Director of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University, and he is also Principal Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect). Jiang has extensive research and curatorial experiences in contemporary art and visual culture. ...