Studying Art and Design

Meet your course leader!

Angela Devoti welcomes you to Art and Design Foundation.

As Course Leader for Art and Design Foundation, I have over 20 years of experience  teaching and developing art and design courses working across different programme levels.
I have previously worked as an independent fashion designer and stylist and embrace interdisciplinary approaches which I embed within my teaching practice. At the heart of my teaching is always the students and I enjoy building a close working community that nurtures and encourages creativity, fosters inquiry and harnesses skills development, through working both independently and as part of a team, learning from shared experiences.
This permits our students to interrogate, question, challenge and make to develop their skills and creativity with confidence and originality, ensuring our students enter industry with an individual voice and have the skills and attributes to contribute, innovate, adapt and reflect the ever-changing world.

My current practice explores the transformative and performative function of drawing in art and design and the lived body experience of dress and the connection between materiality of fashion, culture and social relationships.

Student highlights from this year across Foundation Year in Art and Design

Congratulations on your offer to join our vibrant and dynamic Foundation Year course within the department of Creative Industries at University of Staffordshire.

We wanted to share some of the exciting projects that our students have embarked on as part on the exploratory stages of the course, through to developing their skills and focusing on a specialism.

From working on wearable sculptures, to designing zines and future cities; students have been working on diverse work whilst immersed in the University setting amongst expert technical guidance and well-equipped specialist workshops.

Explore some of the great work by our students below.

(artwork by Bella Roja) 


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Teaching staff

Angela Devoti

Senior Lecturer

Angela is a Design and Visualisation Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Fashion course here at Staffordshire University. She teaches across a variety of modules including Design, Visualisation and History and Theory of Fashion.

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Nigel Turner

Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer for Automotive & Transport Design, and Product, Furniture, Ceramics, with 20 years’ experience as a luxury designer for Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Viners, Aspreys, and 10 years as a product development manager at Michelin Lifestyle.

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Michael Safaric Branthwaite

Associate Professor

I am a Contemporary Fine Artist as well as an active researcher in integrated practices. My main area of interest is the use of technology and the digitisation of History and Heritage

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