Art, Architecture and Design Research Staff
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Mona Casey
Course Leader: MA Fine Art
Mona Casey is MA Fine Art Course Director and 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 range of projects including...
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Nuala Clooney
Lecturer
Nuala Clooney is an artist working with sculpture and video based in Birmingham, UK, and  teaches on BA honours Jewellery and Objects course. Nuala has exhibited internationally and extensively across the UK. She was selected by Art & Heritage for a new commission project for Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent, (2021). ...
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Ravi Deepres
Professor of Moving Image and Photography
Award winning artist, photographer and film maker with an international reputation for focusing on the intersection of the still and moving image. Influences of identity, psychology, social conditioning, historical archives, and scientific cosmological research constantly feed his practice. Expressed through conceptual...
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Professor Anthony Downey
Professor of Visual Culture
Dr. Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture, with a focus on the Middle East and Global South (Birmingham City University). Developing national and international partnerships with artists and cultural organisations, Downey's interdisciplinary research contributes to and supports a critical understanding of postcolonial...
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Dr Lara Furniss
BA Art and Design Course Director
Lara has twenty years professional experience working internationally across many art and design disciplines. This extensive cross-disciplinary professional experience directly informs Lara’s teaching, with a primary interest in developing new pedagogic approaches to non-discipline specific problem solving. Lara’s research...
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Dr Shiyu Gao
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Dr Shiyu Gao, awarded the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, is working on their post-doctoral research project about surveillance and art in digital China. Before joining ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in January 2024, Shiyu taught Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh, where they obtained their PhD in History of Art in 2023 and Master...
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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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Dr Carla Hamer
Senior Lecturer in Photography
Carla is an artist, researcher and Senior Lecturer based in the Art Activisms research cluster. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and leads the CLiC team (Communities for Learning in the context of Art, Design and Media). Her interdisciplinary research connects photography, performance, and...
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Zoë Hillyard
Course Director and Senior Lecturer - BA (Hons) Textile Design
Zoë Hillyard is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BA (Hons) Textile Design at Birmingham City University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and has over 20 years of lecturing experience in both national and international contexts. Zoe is also an established textile artist craft practitioner...
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Dr Sian Hindle
Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead for Research in History of Jewellery
Sian Hindle is a Senior Lecturer in History of Jewellery. Her research interests centre on jewellery as an element of dress, and she holds a PhD exploring how jewellery’s wear and use can contribute to the formation of individual and collective identities. The thesis sits at the intersection of a number of disciplines, and...