Gavin Fry

My primary interests are the culture of needlework, the use of the sketchbook as an investigative tool, and the application of active documentation in the studio and in student learning. In the wider field of visual communication, I believe for a student to acquire useful experiences, and for them to accumulate applicable technical and conceptual skills it is vital to provide a structured learning environment that allows for safe expression and reflection. In addition, critique is a valuable necessary tool for growth to occur; a student needs to experience learning as a straightforward dialogue between themselves, their cohort and staff but they must feel that they have the right systems and boundaries in place to do this.

When enabling students to become questioning makers and observers we need to equip them within a classroom protocol to be fully aware of their own sense of difference in a post-medium and post-narrative world.