ART ACADEMY - Key Persons
Adele Wagstaff trained at Newcastle University and the Slade School of Fine Art where she focused on working from the nude in sustained poses. Her practice continues to explore the human figure, anatomy and portraiture through drawing and painting.
She has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and the BP Portrait Award, and her work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery, Royal West of England Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Canadian Portrait Academy.
Adele has written two books: Still Life Painting in Oils, 2012, and Painting the Nude, 2015, both published by the Crowood Press.
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- Tutor - Critical & Contextual Studies Professional Development
Alison Branagan is an author and a visual arts and creative industries consultant. Over the last decade she has written several business start-up and enterprise books and has studied different approaches to teaching business theory and enterprise skills. Her key text is The Essential Guide to Business for Artists & Designers published by Bloomsbury. She has also devised and facilitated upon many enterprise projects for universities and business support organisations. Entrepreneurship for Creatives Business Start-up for Creatives and Presentation Skills for Creatives are current courses at Central Saint Martins, were she is an associate lecturer. She has a Masters degree in Applied Art and Visual Culture, is an Associate of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education, an associate of Institute of Consulting, a Member of the Society of Authors and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is also a consultant to the Association of Illustrators.
Gavin Maughfling trained at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford and at the University of East London. He has shown internationally, including at the Galerie Van der Planken and Elzenveld Foundation in Antwerp, the Carrousel du Louvre, the Pump House, Lounge and ICA Galleries and the Mostyn Biennial.
Recent exhibitions include Over Time (University of Greenwich and National Maritime Museum), Unnatural Histories (Sun Pier House, Chatham), Ruskin Shorts 13, (Modern Art Oxford) and most recently a film with Min-Wei Ting for In the Open at SIA Gallery, Sheffield, Voice, Westminster Reference Library and Beyond the Binaries at the House of St. Barnabas. As the founder with Suzanne de Emmony of the artist-led curatorial team DEM Projects, he has co-curated a series of international exhibitions, including Ghost on the Wire (Bermondsey Project Space and Objectifs Singapore) and Mysterious Objects at Noon (Objectifs Singapore and ArtLacuna London).
Gavin has taught in the UK and overseas. He currently teaches at Putney School of Art and Design in London, and at the Nanyang Academy for Fine Arts in Singapore. He has been a visiting lecturer at several institutions including most recently the University of Leeds School of Design, and was Artist in Residence and lecturer at the School of Education at the University of Hertfordshire. Other residencies include the British Embassy, Luxembourg.