Studying Fine Art

Meet your Course Leader

Jessica is looking forward to welcoming you to the BA (Hons) Fine Art studios.

After graduating in 2002, I spent some time working in Japan, which guided my practice towards sculpture and installation.  My art practice has allowed me to exhibit across the world, in countries such as USA, France, Finland, The Netherlands and China – as well as throughout the UK. My work combines sculpture, installation, performance and photography, and centres around thresholds within architectural space.

As a lecturer I have taught at various institutions across the UK, but also at the Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts, China and Clermont-Ferrand School of Fine Arts, France.  I joined University of Staffordshire in 2012 and have taught on both BA Fine Art and Art & Design Foundation.  The thing I love most about teaching is opening up new creative possibilities for students and helping them find their voice; I do this in the studio – but also as part of the cross-course Zine Project, that I run each year.

 

Student highlights from across Fine Art

Congratulations on your offer to join our vibrant and dynamic Fine Art degree within the department of Creative Industries at University of Staffordshire.

We wanted to share some of the exciting projects that our students have been involved with over this year, all whilst developing their practice.

From contributing to an outdoor public art trail to celebrate the city centenary, to staging installations at a nearby theatre-in-the-round, students across all years of study have been creating diverse work pursuing exciting ambitions.

(image: Staffs Fine Art students enjoying curator talks at a recent study visit to nearby Manchester galleries.)

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Teaching staff

Jessica Longmore

Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BA Hons Fine Art at Staffordshire University Jessica Longmore is an artist, curator and educator.

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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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Dr Michael Day

Senior Lecturer

Dr. Michael Day is an artist, researcher, lecturer, and occasional curator. He is interested in the ways that digital technologies can structure experience, and produces artworks that explore relationships between technology and agency.

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Professor Ian Brown

Professor

Prof. Brown’s research investigates how contemporary social identity is constructed through rituals of consumption within popular culture. His research also explores the Invented World and the Natural World, including plant/human relations.

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Anna Francis

Professor

Anna Francis is an artist, educator and researcher whose work aims to create space to discuss and reframe city resources, through participatory art interventions.

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Dr Sarah Key

Senior Lecturer

Graduating from the University of Derby in 1999 with first class honours, I consolidated my painting practice for a year at Banks’s Mill studios, before heading to London to study MA: Painting at Wimbledon School of Art…

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