Dr Cathy Gale
Contact
- Email: c.gale@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Design
- Department: Department of Graphic Design
About
Cathy Gale (MA: RCA / SFHEA) Acting Course Leader MA Communication Design: Graphic Design. Her writing, research and pedagogic practice is informed by the relationship between visual culture and the contested ideal of social agency through collective systems, dialogic design and non-tribal community identities. She leads the Open Art School Collective and the Alternative Art School in a shift towards social agency rather than isolated precarity in post-colonial design pedagogy and practice. The Disco Dissent elective forms a transformative extension of the AAS in which creative dissent and enterprise meet as innovative modes of practice. Cathy devises staff-student collaborations in communities of practice to explore contemporary techno-social critical issues. In a research-led approach to teaching she subverts conventional design tools to operate as counter-cultural political devices in unconventional contexts. Cathy is also a PhD supervisor, and External Examiner at Chelsea College of Arts.
Academic responsibilities
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
- PhD (Brighton University)
- MA Graphic Design and Art Direction (Royal College of Art, London)
- BA (Hons) Graphic Design