Art and Design staff
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Helen Wheeler
Senior Lecturer 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
Associate Professor in Photography
Stuart Whipps is an artist based in Birmingham, UK. He often makes work about things he doesn’t understand and doesn’t know how to do. Recently this includes restoring a 1979 Mini with the assistance of former British Leyland workers, training to make geological thin sections at the University of Birmingham, and propagating...
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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 Wright is a creative educator and designer with a passion for performance, live events, and the spaces in between. With years of hands-on experience across music festivals, production design and management, she brings energy, imagination, and real-world insight to her teaching. Hollie combines her background in live...
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Ben Young
Senior Lecturer and Course Director, BA Filmmaking
Ben is a practice-led filmmaking academic with ongoing output as a producer, writer, and director across fiction, creative documentary, hybrid, and experimental cinema, with a further professional background in theatre, brand content, and development producing. His long and short form works have premiered and been distributed...
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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...