Tim Bones is the BA (Hons) Graphic Design Top-Up Programme Leader. Originally trained as an illustrator, Tim worked as a freelance graphic designer for numerous design agencies. He has worked across a variety of design disciplines including print, web, advertising and book design. Before freelancing Tim worked full-time for agencies whose clients included Mercedes, Air Canada, Tate Restaurants, Saudi Airlines, BUPA, Alfa Romeo, IBM and Shell Oil. Tim has a particular interest in e-learning and has worked as an online tutor and Programme Leader for Interactive Design Institute, Scotland. How design students use online and Web 2.0 technology to learn their subject formed much of his MA and his PGCHE research. Tim is also a member of the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA).

Sancha de Burca is programme leader for the University of Kent’s HND in Graphic Design and tutors on the BA (Hons) Top Up, especially on the dissertation module. She has a first class honours degree (OU) and an MA in Media (Sussex), specialising in the art and design of subcultures. Sancha is a writer, published in a range of magazines about culture, art, design and popular music . She also publishes for young designers and the home-schooled. She has been a tutor for many years, starting her career teaching English in the Middle East and has taught in a range of situations from home-schools to university programmes ever since. She also worked for the National Gallery as education officer for adults. Sancha specialises in visual communication theory and context. Currently Sancha is researching into blogging for design students and e-learning.

Biog to follow.

Susan has taught on and developed a range of fashion and textile courses at K College since 2002.  Graduating with a BA (Hons) in Textile Design from the University of Huddersfield she has 10 years professional experience including internships in Paris as a knitwear designer for Cacharel, print designer for trend prediction bureau Carlin International and several years as a range selector /buyer for high street retailer Marks & Spencer. 

Susan continues her personal and professional interest in art based textiles and recently completed an MA in Arts & Design by Independent Project at the University of Brighton.

Programme Leader

Samuel Herbert has over a decade of experience as a practicing artist and has staged numerous solo exhibitions of his work in galleries across Britain and Europe. As an undergraduate he studied painting at Wimbledon School of Art  and received an MA in fine art from Goldsmiths College. He has also taught fine art as a lecturer at the University of the Arts London and the BA honours course at Goldsmiths College.

His work has been featured in the media several times including BBC radio 4, ITV 1 and BBC 2 as well as a review in Time Out (London) and the national press in the Netherlands. His work is represented in various important international collections of contemporary art, most notably the Saatchi collection in London.

Course Leader BA Fashion and Textiles (Ashford)

Trained in textile design specialising in print Rosie has developed her own practice as a textile artist. Her practice and research is based around the use of print and stitch together as ways of drawing and exploring the relationships between processes and different print technologies. She is also interested in ways of expanding the use of stitch in large-scale installations and in taking the concept of stitch from the domestic to the industrial.

Rosie has been teaching at the college since 2003.

Her work can be seen at www.rosiejames.com

Nick Hughes is a fine art and design lecturer with ten years’ experience at Further and Higher Education teaching. He gained his Fine Art degree in 1994 from Winchester School of Art, subsequently adding to this skill base with a Master’s Degree from the University of Kent in Fine Art and a post-graduate teaching qualification from Canterbury Christ Church University College.

A keen explorer and traveller of the Indian subcontinent Nick has taken this interest into his own practice; responding to the ‘philosophies’ of the Orient via Print and Sculpture,  as well as taking our students to tour the country by rail and rickshaw.

Georgia Wright has been working within Art Department since 1996, a graduate in Fine Art Sculpture from Canterbury College of Art.  More recently she has undertaken an MA in Fine Art at The University Kent. Throughout her career Georgia has continued to make sculpture, carved site specific furniture, and hand cut lettering etc, mainly in wood. She has taught at all levels within the Art department but currently works with BA Fine Art  students at Henwood Ashford.  Some of Georgia carving work can be viewed at www.georgiawright.co.uk

Peter studied BA (Hons) in Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art 1991-94, winning both the Roger Ackling prize for a ‘Sketchbook done in the Landscape’ and a Landscape Photography prize from Thomas Joshua Cooper. His preoccupation with the Landscape has continued to inform his work. In 2009 he completed his MA in Contemporary Art with Distinction at the University of Kent and Canterbury; his thesis was titled ‘A Photographic Exploration of Stasis and Entropic Decay in the Landscape’ and sought to reflect upon the extent that subjectivity is revealed through the genre of landscape photography. His interests include pinhole photography, camera less imaging, archival processes such as cyanotypes, salt printing, as well as large scale analogue printing techniques.

James Brooks completed his Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, London in 2004, and his Bachelors in Fine Art with 1st Class Honours at the University of Plymouth. Since that time he has shown in Solo and Group exhibitions in: Paris, Frankfurt, New York, Berlin, Miami, Norway, Ireland and London- including the Tate Britain. To date, he has had 5 Solo exhibitions of his work.

In 2006 he was awarded the artist/ curator develoment grant by the Art Council of England. Furthermore, he was selected for ARTFutures 2007, at Bloomberg, London, along with being chosen to write and deliver a paper on Contemporary Drawing for the publication and symposium Drawing: the future at The National Gallery, London.
 
At various times over the last 4 years, he has been an invited Visiting Artist/ Lecturer for the: University of Northumbria, University of Brighton, University of Plymouth and University of Wales, along with being a part-time lecturer at K College on the Foundation Diploma/ Foundation Degree Fine Art/ BA Photography- University of Kent and BA Fine Art- University of Greenwich.
 
He is represented by galleries in Paris, Frankfurt and London.

Part time Lecturer in Art and Design

Jane has worked for the college since 1993, helping to develop the Higher Education Creative Arts HND and the subsequent Foundation Degree in Fine Art.
She studied at St Martin’s School of Art and Wimbledon School of Art.

Her specialism is in Glass, an area of materials development that she show cases each year with a number of students, through the arts event - South East Open Studio’s. She is also currently teaching 3D on the level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design.

Lindsay Connors graduated with a BA in fine art from Greenwich University in 2008. Her practice utilises a wide variety of media including printmaking. Since graduating she has been involved in a number of Kent and London based artist’s co-operatives, and is a creative practitioner for Future Creative. She has worked collaboratively and individually on site specific installations and projects, including for local authority galleries and museums.