I am a painter, educator, editor and theorist. At UEL I teach on the BA Visual Theories, MA Fine Art and Professional Doctorate Fine Art which I have developed with a colleague over the last five years.

I have been editor of engage journal since 2000. Engage journal is a key resource on the syllabus of academic programmes such as the Institute of Education’s MA in Museum Studies, and the Gallery Education MA at John Moores Liverpool University. Art in Question (2003), a series of interviews with artists, curators, theorists is used at BA, MA and PD levels by UEL students and other universities.

Previously I was Visual Arts Officer, Arts Council of England, Research fellow Middlesex University, ACE’s visual literacy project, writer for the Whitechapel Gallery’s internet/schools ‘Download’ projects, lecturer and tutor at the Open University, City Literary Institute,Tate Gallery, RA schools, London Guildhall, Institute of Education.

Contemporary art, Museology, Museum and gallery education, visual literacy, drawing.

• Professional Doctorate in Fine Art
• MA in Fine Art
• BA Visual Theory

• FAM005
• FAM001
• VT3005 The Graphic Act

• Catalogue essay 'Grenville Davey'  2008

• Catalogue essay 'Barbara Nicholls: layers and legibility'  2010

• Editor 'Digital Doorways' engage vol. 24 autumn 2009

                        'Family Learning' engage vol. 25 spring 2010

                        'Marketing and gallery education' engage vol. 26 autumn 2010

                        'Exchange: artists, young people and galleries' engage vol 27

• I have been editor of engage journal,the international journal of visual arts and gallery education since 2000. Responsible for researching themes, commissioning 12 articles, editing, writing an introduction, selecting images, liaising with designers.

• 2009  'Representing Disability' in engage 23, Spring 2008, pp 64-72

• 2007 'Goldfinger: Faisal Abdu'Allah' chapter in Art of Negotiation, D. Butler and V. Reiss, Arts Council

• 2003 Art in Question, London and NY: Continuum Press

• 2003 'Art in Question' in International Journal of Art and Design Education, vol 22, no. 2, pp 195-207.

• 2001 ‘Half-Life: sketching with the palm pilot’ in Engage 10, Sept 2001, pp. 46-52.

• 2000  ‘Visual Literacy and the Art Curriculum’ in Journal of Art and Design Education, 8.1, Jan 2000

• 1999 ‘Art Education and Talk:  from modernist silence to postmodern chatter’, with H.Hollands, Sefton-Greene & Sinker (eds) Evaluating Creativity, Routledge, pp. 16-42.

• 1997  Visual Literacy: issues and debates, Middlesex University Press

Selected Conferences:

• Feb 2004  Speaker and group chair, The Treason of Images, Tate Modern, London

•  June 2001 speaker, Picturing Literacy, Tate Modern, London

• Sept. 1998 ‘Ambiguity in drawing’ - keynote speech, at DRAW-UM: a research forum for the discussion of objectives, priorities and values in Art & Design Education, Loughborough University

• June 1997  ‘Art History into Visual Culture’, Art Historians in Action conference, Art Historians Association & Tate Gallery, London

• April 1997  ‘Reflections on Painting’, Arts, Media and Representation Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa

• Aug 1996  ‘Framing visual and verbal experience’, AN’s Round Midnight Education Colloquium, Charlotte Mason College, Cumbria

• Editor, engage journal 2000 to present
• PhD examination and viva chair