Personal profile
Approach to teaching
My approach to teaching builds and responds to my commerical background in graphic design and illustration for the fashion and music industries. I believe that students can respond in their research and practice to their current visual and cultural context and seek to find something new to say in the ongoing conversation of visual communication. By encouraging research through making and the expanded practice of illustration and graphic design, workshops and group seminars explore visual inquiry across digitial and analogue activities.
Experience as a designer and illustrator:
After graduating from Central St. Martins, I have worked on projects and in-house with clients including Vitra, British and Japanese Vogue, Elle Decoration, The Observer, Channel 4 and The Victoria & Albert Museum. I also design on-product graphics and textile surface prints and t-shirt graphics for streetwear and fashion labels such as Silas and Stella McCartney for Adidas.
Experience as Course Leader & Lecturer:
Before joining the University of Brighton I was Course Leader for Illustration & Visual Media at The London College of Communication, UAL and was Associate Lecturer, BA Graphic Communication at Chelsea College of Art & Design and Teaching Fellow for BA and MA Graphic Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. I have also been an associate lecturer at UCA Epsom and Farnham and Camberwell, UAL.
External Examiner Roles:
I am currently external examiner for BA Illustration at the Arts University Bournemouth and recently for BA Visual Communication at London Met University. I chaired an external panel for the programme review of BA Illustration at NCAD, Dublin in May 2026.
Exhibitions, Residencies & Lectures:
I have exhibited my work internationally and has been invited to speak at design conferences in Tokyo, Venice, Sydney, Olso and Steven’s Point, Wisconsin. I have run workshops related to my practice at Fabrica in Italy, Ecal in Switzerland and undertook a Designer's Residency at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL.