Cheers :) 2009 Art Advisors
Chris Lefteri
Chris Lefteri is an internationally recognized authority on materials and their application in design. His achievements in this area have created an unparalled bridge between the materials and the design industry. He has published eight books on design and material innovation, which have been translated into five languages. Over the last eight years they have been instrumental in changing the way designers view and use materials. He has delivered papers and curated museum exhibitions on materials and design across Europe, North America and Asia. Chris Lefteri Design Ltd works with Fortune 100 companies and major design studios across Europe, the US and Asia helping them with strategies for effective materials integration in the design process. These include: Nike, Philips Design, LG Electronics, Samsung, Dyson and Rocca Sanitario. The studio also works with material suppliers helping them to market their products to the design industry. Chris Lefteri lectures at Central St Martins College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. He was the Visionary in Residence at Art Centre College of Design in California in 2008 and has been a guest lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, CCS, SCAD and LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in Singapore.
Daniel Preece
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES2008/09 / Artist in Residence Kensington Palace / UCL Slade School of Fine Art Tutor/Artist
2001:Runner up - Laing Landscape and Seascape Award / 1998: Artist in Residence, Slade Summer School / 1997: Second Prize - Gilchrist Fischer Memorial Award / 1995: Boise Scholarship to travel and make work in America / 1994: Stoves Award Winner / 1994: Finalist - Gilchrist Fischer Memorial Award / 1993: Henry Tonks Medal for Painting / 1992: Slade Project Award to make paintings in North Wales / 1991: Second Prize Slade Summer Competition / 1990: William Coldstream Prize: Slade School of Fine Art
EXHIBITIONS: 2009: 'Twilight', Canary Wharf, London / 2009: Threadneedle Painting Prize, Mall Galleries, London / 2008: ‘ELEVATION the City Re-seen’, Gillions Art, Battersea, London / 2007: Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Gallery, London / 2006: ‘London Panoramas’, Slade Summer School, University College London / 1999: ‘London, New York and Paris’, Fox Williams, Solicitors, London
James Urquhart
RIBA , Architect / Director and founder of BUJ Architect / Director and shareholder of JADL Architect Hong Kong
Found in 1980s, BUJ is one of the leading UK architect in residential and hotel design. Projects include Apart Hotel, County Hall, Tea Trade Wharf, and Islington City Road Development.
Jane Penty
Jane Penty is a practicing designer and educator. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, London in Industrial Design Engineering (1984), Jane worked in London design consultancies, first as staff designer and later as a freelance designer. Since 1989, Jane has also been involved in design education and is currently stage 1 Programme Leader for the BA Product Design, Central St Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London and collaborator with the Design Against Crime Research Unit. Jane was instigator and project manager for the EU Interreg IIIa Avenue Verte Cyclestations Project from Sept 2005 to June 2008. Jane is also retained as design consultant by ERL at renewable energy consultancy.
Jane’s research, education and design practices are integral and emerge in response to each other. This has led to a diverse range of themes and outcomes over the years. Recently, these have revolved around public installations, community / education collaborations, and sustainable design strategies in education and design.
Wiking Yang
Chairman of UCA.CSSA
He did wonderful works in fine are area. His works has been exhibited in "1949 Art Exhibition", which is in Gteyhound,London in October, 2009. "Untold Stories creative fashion art". Which is in Foundery, London, in october, 2009. And "The Asian Ctelainozoic art exhibition", which is in The Brick Lane Gallery , London. In august, 2009. Wiking also did a lot of creative jobs, such as UK Chinese Celebrating the 60th anniversary of P.R.China, he used his art talent in art area and has a great comment for his art.
Nicholas Rhodes
MA DipCSAD FRSA
Nicholas is a Designer and Educator with some 20 years experience in practice. He is currently Course Director in Product Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, and has taught at institutions elsewhere - in the United Kingdom, the United States, China, the Caribbean, and Australia.
His design work encompasses product design, branding and graphics, spatial design and new product development. He has worked with many international clients and employers including Fritz Hansen, Moët & Chandon, LVMH, Montblanc, Proctor & Gamble, ICI, Panasonic, Vertu, Liberty, Molton Brown, Honav UK (London 2012), CNN International, and IBM.
His current research activity focuses on luxury products & branding.
Paul Sayers
Paul Sayers graduated from The Central School of Art and Design in 1983.
Paul entered product design consultancy beginning with staff and freelance design with the Terence Conran Associates, IDEO, FitchRS and Allied International design studios.
Established own studio, Drum Design in 1989 with own clients and in collaboration with other studios including FitchRS and Tangerine.
Paul was a regular visiting tutor from 1986 to 1999 at Ravensbourne School and Hertfordshire University and is now Second Year Programme Leader of Product Design at Central Saint Martins.
During a period in the mid to late 1980’s, Paul began to explore the creative connections between design and painting, expressing this through drawing and oil on canvas works.
He had a number of important exhibitions at The Barbican Centre, London EC2, the Insead Gallery, Fontainebleau and the Royal Air Force Museum, London as well numerous group shows.
He continues to offer design expertise for clients mainly in the furniture and lighting sectors and more recently interior spaces.
Peter Hofer
Lecturer in Fine Art University for the Creative Arts Canterbury.
Robert McAulay
I was born in Camden Town 1942 during an air raid.
I studied at Hornsey College of Art, now known as Middlesex University, my main subjects were illustration and printmaking.
I graduated as an illustrator from the Royal College of Art in 1966, then Worked as a freelance illustrator for books, magazines, movies, etc, while also doing part time teaching.
I joined St Martins (as it was known then) in 1979, I taught many of the tutors whom I now teach with, I also run various Artscom courses, and I'm very involved in widening participation.
I started using Apple computers in 1989, and continue using them to this day.
I now teach screen based design and Graphic Design or Graphic Archaeology as I prefer to call it.
Tao Xi
Academic scholar at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design / Associate professor of School of Media and Design, Shanghai Jiaotong University / Art director of No.1 Design Workshop in Shanghai Jiaotong University
Specialized in visual communication design; now, I'm researching design for green and information design at CSM.
Xuhua Zhan
Freelance Art conservator working for The Tate Gallery / The Institute of Conservation(ICON) / Art consultant for Artability Art & Collection Limited
Graduated from University of the Arts London, Xuhua Zhan has been working for London public museums and galleries including V& A, Tate, The British Postal Museum and Archive, IIC and ICON. She specializes in conserving contemporary artists‟ artworks. Projects include Henry Moore, David Hockney and Richard Long‟s artworks etc.Xuhua Zhan is a keen advocator for promoting modern concepts of conservation, collection management and museum managements to China. She gives talk in Chinese museums including Guangdong Museum, Today Art Museum and Shanghai Art Museum.
She is a research coordinator for EU Commission funded cultural project CHINDEU project . Xuhua Zhan also works as art consultant on promoting emerging Chinese artists.