Creative Arts
Programme Leader for FdSc Media Production
Biography
As a practitioner with over 30 years of creative media experience Phil has worked in the commercial sector all over the world, in countries as far afield and culturally diverse as Australia, Senegal and Oman. A passionate and committed educator, he teaches across multi-disciplines within Art and Design and previously taught at Southport College before joining University Centre St Helens. He is also an accomplished multi-media artist in his own right and has had many pieces of published work including photographic art exhibited by Chester Art Centre.
Qualifications
- FdSc New Media & Design Technology - University of Central Lancashire
- BSc Interactive Digital Media - University of Central Lancashire
- PGCE Post Graduate Certificate in Education - (UCLan)
- MA Creative Thinking - University of Central Lancashire
Research interests
- How creativity and divergent thinking can impact and affect creative design teams.
For his MA, he is researching the Psychology of creative teamwork; How design teams within the games industry can be stimulated by both unstructured brainstorming processes and by structured processes (lateral thinking). How or what exactly influences, encourages or discourages ideation within a creative design team?
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Typology as a communicative, revelatory platform.
A recent visit to Sydney provided the inspiration behind his current lens-based typology.
‘An Observational Study of Sydney Harbour Bridge’.Phil has produced a photographic assemblage based around a cultural icon of the built environment; finding patterns, both visual and intellectual that resonate and reveal information not apparent in isolation, but visible only in contextual groupings; the closer you look, the more you see.
Programme Leader for FdA Theatre & Performance
Biography
Ian Greenall is the Programme Leader for FdA Theatre & Performance. He has lectured at University Centre St Helens since 1998, and previously held positions at Liverpool John Moores University and Manchester Metropolitan University. Alongside his lecturing, Ian continues to create and perform professionally, both locally and nationally. He has a passion for taking high quality, innovative performance work to the general public, in venues and settings where this work would traditionally not be seen.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Creative Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Postgraduate MA Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University
Research interests
- Developing audiences for contemporary theatre and performance, by creating ambitious, inspirational performance work for venues and settings not traditionally associated with the arts.
- Integration of new technologies into live performance
- Inspiring young performance makers to create innovative new work.
Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Game Art
Biography
Dean Betton is the Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Game Art degree course. Dean has over 20 years of industry experience, working in various location across the globe. His work portfolio boasts contributions on multiple AAA games titles including Art Director for Star Wars Battle Front, Lead Character Artist for Sony’s Formula One Grand Prix and Environment Artist on the Wipeout franchise to name but a few. Dean now passes on his industry knowledge, teaching and mentoring the next generation of games artists at University Centre St Helens.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Entertainment Media, University of Huddersfield
- Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector, Liverpool John Moores University
Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting
Biography
Wayne Robinson is the Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting. Lecturing since 1983 he has previously held positions at Cumbria College of Art and Liverpool Hope University before joining University Centre St Helens. Wayne has always had a passion for drawing, painting and printmaking alongside the theory which underpins his practice. He has exhibited his work in Germany, Malta, Poland, Cyprus and USA and also has work in private collections in these countries.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Loughborugh University
- MA Fine Art Printmaking, Manchester Metropolitan University
- PhD. Research; Indicative project title: A practice led, examination of how the picture plane affects meaning via proximity, tactile vision and the implicit, materiality of the painting process, University of Chester
Research interests
- How can proximity promote a sense of heightened sensitivity, ‘tactile’ vision and haptic looking to affect our visual experience and understanding?
- How does the picture plane act as a communicative, revelatory membrane to hold quasi-subject status?