BA (Hons)

Meet the team

Mike Griffiths (Course Leader)
http://www.michaelgriffithsfineart.com/
Mike Griffiths? research in the field of printmaking, painting and drawing investigates the use of visual metaphor to explore psychological and emotional relationships between the self and the world. He has exhibited widely with 24 solo exhibitions throughout the UK including the University of Winchester (2002), Pallant House, Chichester (2000), Southampton City Art Gallery (1991). His work has been included in mixed and group exhibitions throughout the world. In recent years, he has had prints shown in biennales in Spain, Bulgaria, Canada and the UK. His work is in numerous public and private collections including the Arts Council England, The Ashmolean Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum Education: 1977 Post Grad Certificate – Printmaking, Brighton Polytechnic 1976 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Brighton Polytechnic.

Paul Finnegan (Senior Lecturer & PT Fine Art Course Co-ordinator)
Studied Fine Art – Sculpture at Central St. Martin?s College of Art. He is a practicing artist with an extensive exhibiting history. He has had solo exhibitions at the Entwistle Gallery and One in the Other Gallery, both in London, and participated in many group shows including, Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy and Ideal Standard Summertime at the Lisson Gallery. His work is represented in the Arts Council Collection. He completed a year-long residency at the Arts Institute where he investigated fictional ?natural histories? and the relationship between morality and form. He uses a broad range of media including fibreglass and colour photographs.

Tom Hall BA (Hons), MA (Royal College of Art), PGCE, Associate Lecturer & Level 6 Co-ordinator
Tom Hall studied sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art and went on to complete an MA in sculpture at The Royal College of Art. He has exhibited widely in this country in a variety of exhibition contexts, such as ?Boiler? at Trinity Boyd Wharf, London and ?Meeting Place? at the Russell Cotes Museum in Bournemouth. He has also made a number of sight specific sculptures from competition successes. The majority of Tom?s works and instillations centre on an enjoyment of materials and processes, developing their use and fabrication as communicative tools. More recently works have developed through a more direct context of site, physically mapping or using the exhibition space as a link. Education: 2007 PGCE Arts Institute at Bournemouth, 2005 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UCCA, 1998 Sculpture MA Royal College of Art London, 1994 BA (Hons) Sculpture First Class Wimbledon School of Art, 1991 Arts Foundation Brighton Polytechnic.

Simón Granell BA (Hons), MA (Slade School of Art), PGCE, Associate Lecturer & Level 5 Co-oridinator
Born in England in 1964, Simón Granell studied fine art at Falmouth School of Art and The Slade School of Art, London. He has been nominated for the Picker Fellowship at Kingston University in 1991, and in 1992 was nominated for the Barclays Young Artist of the Year Award and shortlisted for the British School at Rome. He has exhibited widely in the UK and Spain, and has worked with artist Tania Kovats on the Drawing Quarters symposium at Bristol School of Art. He has also been Artist in Residence at the Escola Massana in Barcelona while also teaching on the Winchester School of Art European MA. In 2007 he collaborated in underground with Roger Ackling and Eric Butcher, a site-specific project in the basement rooms at Shoreditch Town Hall, East London. In the same year he took part in Meeting Place at the Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, in association with text + work, The Arts University College at Bournemouth. In 2009 his work was presented at Galleri Pluss Minus in Trondheim, Norway, in an exhibition titled a Sanchez Cotán.

Pauline Rose (Theory Co-ordinator)
Dr Pauline Rose is an Art Historian who studied at the University of Southampton, gaining her PhD at the beginning of 2007. Her thesis addressed the monumental sculptures of Henry Moore in the United States, with particular emphasis on how the sculptor was framed and received in that country. In this context, the post-war relationship between Britain and the U.S. was key, as were American perceptions of Moore as an amenable, quintessentially ‘English gentleman’. She is currently re-writing her thesis with a view to seeking publication, and meanwhile will have an article published in the academic Sculpture Journal (spring/summer 2008) entitled ‘Henry Moore in Dallas: 1965 – 1984′. In March she delivered a paper on this topic to the 4-day international Annual Conference of the British Association for American Studies, and in April she will give a paper at the Getty Institute in Los Angeles, as part of an international conference with the theme ‘The Anglo-American Exchange in Post-War Sculpture, 1945 – 1975. Her paper is entitled ‘Henry Moore in America: The Role of Journalism and Photography.’ Her broader research interests are in twentieth century and contemporary British art, and the history and theories of photography. Education: 2007 PhD (awarded with no re-writing requirements) Henry Moore in the United States: Art, Business and Civic Culture Winchester School of Art/University of Southampton 1997 MA Art and Ideology in Europe 1917 – 1968 Winchester School of Art/University of Southampton 1995 BA (Hons) History of Art (2:1) Winchester School of Art/University of Southampton Further and Adult Education Teacher?s Certificate City & Guilds 7307 Member of the HE Academy.

Paul Horne (Technician Demonstrator)
http://www.paulhorne.com
Paul Horne completed his BA (Hons) Fine Art degree at Liverpool John Moores University in 2000. He completed his Masters Degree in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001. Paul has exhibited extensively throughout the UK (Cornerhouse Gallery, Royal College of Art) and has work in the Manchester Gallery collection. Having began his artistic career as a painter Paul?s work developed into sculpture. His work is now largely concerned with cast bronze objects. Paul is a founding member of Suite Studios, Manchester and he has worked on exhibition installations throughout the UK (Tate Liverpool, Manchester Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery, St. Paul?s Cathedral). Paul also worked as a sculpture tutor at Manchester Metropolitan University 2001-2003. Education: 2001 Manchester Metropolitan University – MA Fine Art 2000 Liverpool John Moores University – BA (Hons) Fine Art- 2-1 1997 Plymouth College of Art and Design – ND Foundation Studies in Art and Design.

Jason Dungan (Visiting Tutor)
Born in Houston, 1978. Studied Philosophy and Film at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA. MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, 2003. Currently lives and works London. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Brown Gallery, London, and group shows at Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, and Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Awards include grants from the Geological Society of America and the Elephant Trust, UK. Participated in the Arts Council England-funded ?What Do Artists Do?? project, organized by Phyllida Barlow. Part of the Zabludowicz collection. Co-director of the Hex, a project space which has exhibited both in the UK and abroad.

Zoe Sinclair (Visiting Tutor)
http://www.zoesinclair.com
Born in 1976, Zoë Sinclair grew up in Poole, and studied at the AIB and then Central Saint Martins, London. In 1998 Zoë was the first student and second woman to win The Observer Hodge Award. Her collaboration with fellow St Martins alumna Andrea Blood spans over twelve years, they work under the moniker ?The Girls?. The Girls have exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery, the ICA, and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; and have been published in The Guardian, The Observer, The British Journal of Photography and Creative Review. The award-winning duo are currently working on their first book of self portraits. Education: 1998 Central Saint Martins, London BA (Hons) Graphic Design (2:1) Specialisation: Photography 1995 Arts Institute, Bournemouth Foundation Studies.

Roy Brown (Visiting Tutor)
My work is influenced by utopianism. My research into this area has been wide ranging, including ideas expressed through science fiction, architecture and alternative sub-cultures. I am fascinated by the way in which these ideas, while functioning successfully on a conceptual level, can fragment and fail when tested within the real world. Elements of this idealism are effectively filtered down into the production of practical domestic furniture, the rise in popularity of self-sufficiency and the romanticism of nature, all of which are referenced within my work. The work takes the form of installations, sculptures, video and drawings. Through my choice of materials (i.e. alco-pops for a ?municipal fountain?) I use satire and humour to address current public concerns and debates. Using widely available, non-specialist materials, procured from accessible sources such as DIY stores and E-Bay, a dialogue is allowed between the ?every-day? and the perceived hierarchical world of ?Fine Art?. This democratisation of the work raises questions of perceived value and material value.

Eric Butcher (Visiting Tutor)
http://www.ericbutcher.com
Born in Singapore in 1974, Eric Butcher studied philosophy at Cambridge University and fine art at Wimbledon School of Art, London. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally with shows in Germany, Italy, Australia and the USA. He has received awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Arts Council, England. He has initiated a number of curatorial projects such as emission and Definite Article in the UK and USA, and his work features in several publications. Education: 2002 The Institute of Education, London University PGCE (Post Compulsory) 2001 Wimbledon School of Art, London MA Fine Art 1994 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge BA (Cantab) Philosophy (2:1).