Overview
Antony teaches design development, drawing and contextual theory on the BA (Hons) Make-up for Media and Performance at AUB. He is currently undertaking PhD studies in the department of Architecture at the University of Brighton. His research is concerned with the sensory interstice between body and matter and the process of making through diverse thought. He seeks to explore an intertwined relationship between subject and object, and self and other. He is fascinated by the mark or residual aftermath and its relational impact on place, memory and identity, and a connection with the ancestral other through things and/or matter.
Antony is a member of the Drawing Research Group at AUB and sits on the Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee at the university. He is also an external examiner at the University of South Wales.
Antony is interested in the occurrence of diverse thought through collaboration and co-creative practice, having worked with artists from Iran, India, China, Canada, America and Greece. He has been instrumental in setting up residencies in Canary Wharf and a summer residency for international artists at the Arts House Taunton. Antony is an experienced lecturer of 20 years, lecturing in design, fine art, contextual theory, drawing, life casting and sculpture.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- MFA Fine Art (Wimbledon College of Arts)
- Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art (Printmaking) (University of the West of England)
- BA (Hons) Fine Art (University of the West of England)
Teaching Qualification
- Postgraduate Certificate in Education (University of Plymouth)
Teaching
Currently teaching at AUB
- BA (Hons) Makeup for Media and Performance – FT since 2018, VT since 2016
Somerset College of Arts and Technology
- Course Leader National Diploma 3D Design 2005–15 – Somerset College of Arts and Technology
- Visual Culture Lecturer Foundation/National Diploma 1999–2005 – College of Arts and Technology
- Teaching on other courses 1999–2015, BA (Hons) Fine Art
- BA (Hons) Media Make-up; HND Interior Design – Somerset College of Arts and Technology.
Research
Research Interests and Projects
PhD research: Here is Where we Meet (Body, Matter and Things): A sensory investigation, through co-creative practice, of the misplaced and found, in association with Wessex Archaeology - Salisbury.
Member of Transformative Matter Research Group AUB (engaged in practice-led research relating to innovative approaches to drawing)
Professional Engagement
Antony has developed professional links with Wessex Archaeology working with the Innovation Centre, to exchange knowledge and extend the student experience. Through this link, students have engaged with lectures by industry experts from Wessex Archaeology and have worked with archival evidence to construct likenesses of people from the past.