I am an Associate Professor at Kingston school of Art with teaching roles for PhD, MA and BA students and a Faculty role as MA Lead. I established the Illustration Animation Department at Kingston after 10 years as BA Course Director and was Head of Department for 4 years.
Previously BA Illustration Programme Leader at Middlesex University for 12 years, I have been a subject and educational consultant at BA and MA External Examiner and validation roles at many U.K. Art Colleges and Universities including Edinburgh, Leeds, Brighton, Bath, Derby, Worcester, Camberwell, Bristol and Dundee.
As co-founder of ‘Mokita', an illustration critical forum (since 2010), I have campaigned for the greater recognition of the cultural value of Illustration as a discipline and practice that has an important role beyond its commercial applications, as a creative tool for identity formation and societal change.
Associate Professor Illustration Animation Department