Darryl Clifton
Darryl is an educator, researcher and illustrator and currently the Illustration Programme Director at Camberwell Chelsea and Wimbledon College (CCW), UAL.
Clifton’s research is defined as transdisciplinary, using methods that draw on the intersectional spaces of illustration, design, anthropology, the sociology of education and immersive/virtual technologies with a particular focus on the potential for disciplinary ‘disobedience’ to enable transformative educational experiences in the pursuit of social justice, equality, diversity and inclusivity. In 2010, working with colleagues at UAL, Clifton revived Camberwell Press and went on to transform it into a multi-disciplinary, situated, studio creating opportunities for recent graduates and students to gain experience in commercial, cultural and social practices.
Clifton currently chairs college wide (CCW) Immersive Pedagogy R&D and Camberwell Illustration Emerging Technologies Research Groups who have recently participated in a pan European funded research project called Accelerate. Clifton is also the co-director of Illustration Educators, a newly formed global network of educators, practitioners and students.
Email: d.clifton@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
Darryl is an educator, researcher and illustrator and currently the Illustration Programme Director at Camberwell Chelsea and Wimbledon College (CCW), UAL.
Clifton’s research is defined as transdisciplinary, using methods that draw on the intersectional spaces of illustration, design, anthropology, the sociology of education and immersive/virtual technologies with a particular focus on the potential for disciplinary ‘disobedience’ to enable transformative educational experiences in the pursuit of social justice, equality, diversity and inclusivity. In 2010, working with colleagues at UAL, Clifton revived Camberwell Press and went on to transform it into a multi-disciplinary, situated, studio creating opportunities for recent graduates and students to gain experience in commercial, cultural and social practices.
Clifton currently chairs college wide (CCW) Immersive Pedagogy R&D and Camberwell Illustration Emerging Technologies Research Groups who have recently participated in a pan European funded research project called Accelerate. Clifton is also the co-director of Illustration Educators, a newly formed global network of educators, practitioners and students.
Email: d.clifton@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
Matthew Hawkins
Matthew is a Senior Lecturer & Integrated Practice Coordinator at Camberwell.
He studied MA Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art and has over 25 years working in education. He has taught at Kingston University, Southampton Solent University, Chelsea College of Arts, Camberwell College of Arts and the School of International Art (SIA), China.
Matthew’s interests are drawn to the potential of 3D digital practices and emerging technologies. He is eager to explore technologies in the context of the discipline and challenge the often uneasy relationship between analogue and digital processes. Matthew asks what role the educator can play in promoting dialogue between the two, challenging perceptions and advocating foresight amongst student cohorts. Investigations have enabled the development of exploratory workshops and activities designed to improve accessibility, understanding and participation amongst staff and students.
Email: m.a.hawkins@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
Matthew is a Senior Lecturer & Integrated Practice Coordinator at Camberwell.
He studied MA Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art and has over 25 years working in education. He has taught at Kingston University, Southampton Solent University, Chelsea College of Arts, Camberwell College of Arts and the School of International Art (SIA), China.
Matthew’s interests are drawn to the potential of 3D digital practices and emerging technologies. He is eager to explore technologies in the context of the discipline and challenge the often uneasy relationship between analogue and digital processes. Matthew asks what role the educator can play in promoting dialogue between the two, challenging perceptions and advocating foresight amongst student cohorts. Investigations have enabled the development of exploratory workshops and activities designed to improve accessibility, understanding and participation amongst staff and students.
Email: m.a.hawkins@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
Jayoon Choi
Jayoon Choi is an artist and an educator based in London. Her practice explores the vast spectrum of our internal selves buried beneath the physical body we own. She investigates these through process-led drawing and digital production.
She explores a variety of automatic processes, viewing them as a systematic interplay and embracing unpredictability. Employing this method, she treats both static and moving images as collage materials, pushing the boundaries of how the simple act of drawing can evolve into various forms through digital processes. This exploration extends to generating 3D sculptural outcomes using Nomad, AR, or VR Gravity Sketch drawing.
Jayoon studied for an MA in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art and a BA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Art. Her work has been exhibited and featured by VIDAK, Guardian, Metro, Science museum, Jealous Gallery, South Kiosk, Light Up Lancaster, Women of Silicon Roundabout and Illustrating Mental Health symposium.
Email: j.choi@arts.ac.uk
Jayoon Choi is an artist and an educator based in London. Her practice explores the vast spectrum of our internal selves buried beneath the physical body we own. She investigates these through process-led drawing and digital production.
She explores a variety of automatic processes, viewing them as a systematic interplay and embracing unpredictability. Employing this method, she treats both static and moving images as collage materials, pushing the boundaries of how the simple act of drawing can evolve into various forms through digital processes. This exploration extends to generating 3D sculptural outcomes using Nomad, AR, or VR Gravity Sketch drawing.
Jayoon studied for an MA in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art and a BA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Art. Her work has been exhibited and featured by VIDAK, Guardian, Metro, Science museum, Jealous Gallery, South Kiosk, Light Up Lancaster, Women of Silicon Roundabout and Illustrating Mental Health symposium.
Email: j.choi@arts.ac.uk
Chris Follows
Artist and co-founder of artsXR, an immersive production studio. Emerging Technologies lead at University of the Arts London (UAL), exploring the integration of new technologies into arts practice, including design, performance and art. Chris established the Digital Maker Collective in 2016 and was invited to be a Tate Exchange associate in 2017, where he curated several large-scale creative tech events, over four years at Tate Modern and Tate Britain.
Chris has Mesh Paintings in corporate and private collections and has exhibited at the National Maritime Museum and Cork Street, London. Chris's digital mesh paintings can be found in web3 collections across multiple blockchains, his digital works have been exhibited at NFT Paris, Feb 2023, Beeple studio in Charleston, SC, Sept 2023 and will be shown at NFT NYC, April 2024.
Email: c.follows@arts.ac.uk
Artist and co-founder of artsXR, an immersive production studio. Emerging Technologies lead at University of the Arts London (UAL), exploring the integration of new technologies into arts practice, including design, performance and art. Chris established the Digital Maker Collective in 2016 and was invited to be a Tate Exchange associate in 2017, where he curated several large-scale creative tech events, over four years at Tate Modern and Tate Britain.
Chris has Mesh Paintings in corporate and private collections and has exhibited at the National Maritime Museum and Cork Street, London. Chris's digital mesh paintings can be found in web3 collections across multiple blockchains, his digital works have been exhibited at NFT Paris, Feb 2023, Beeple studio in Charleston, SC, Sept 2023 and will be shown at NFT NYC, April 2024.
Email: c.follows@arts.ac.uk
Kristina Thiele
Kristina is a London-based Scandinavian Spatial Designer, VR immersive experience creative, and co-founder of artsXR, an immersive production studio. She's also an educator at the University of the Arts London CCW and AMD in Munich, specialising in immersive technologies.
Kristina is involved in R&D projects like ACCELERATE, exploring the role of immersive tech in art and design education. Her work, including projects like PhyberFashion XR and Airmorphologies, has been showcased at the Wellcome Collection and Tate Modern. Additionally, she's an active member of London Women Leading Web3, a community at the forefront of shaping the future of decentralised web technologies. Currently, she's exploring generative AI's potential in shaping images and videos, unlocking new creative and educational horizons.
Kristina Thiele is a pioneer in the convergence of art and technology, consistently pushing boundaries in the global arts sector.
Email: a.thiele@arts.ac.uk
Kristina is a London-based Scandinavian Spatial Designer, VR immersive experience creative, and co-founder of artsXR, an immersive production studio. She's also an educator at the University of the Arts London CCW and AMD in Munich, specialising in immersive technologies.
Kristina is involved in R&D projects like ACCELERATE, exploring the role of immersive tech in art and design education. Her work, including projects like PhyberFashion XR and Airmorphologies, has been showcased at the Wellcome Collection and Tate Modern. Additionally, she's an active member of London Women Leading Web3, a community at the forefront of shaping the future of decentralised web technologies. Currently, she's exploring generative AI's potential in shaping images and videos, unlocking new creative and educational horizons.
Kristina Thiele is a pioneer in the convergence of art and technology, consistently pushing boundaries in the global arts sector.
Email: a.thiele@arts.ac.uk
Dr. Karen Jiyun Sung
Dr. Karen Jiyun Sung is a UK-based illustrator and researcher whose work bridges visual storytelling and academic inquiry. She has been teaching illustration and observational drawing for more than 10 years across East Asia, Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
She completed her practice-based PhD at Loughborough University, where she developed her research interest in using collective drawing to illuminate the authentic stories of individuals. Her community-led practice reflects her interest in duality and multiplicity of identities and democratising arts practice to capture marginalised voices with multifaceted backgrounds. Her recent dyslexia diagnosis, coupled with the examiner’s comment about her ‘above-average visual capabilities compensating for verbal expression challenges,’ aptly highlights what she does best and the benefits it brings her.
She is currently a Research Associate at Loughborough University, developing immersive technologies to enhance learning. In her art practice, she is delving deep into her own stories of being an international student of 22 years into short and long-form comics to share them with the world. She shares these comics on her website and social media, hoping to demonstrate the power of personal stories to offer new insights and reveal new possibilities.
Email: karen@karenjysung.com
Dr. Karen Jiyun Sung is a UK-based illustrator and researcher whose work bridges visual storytelling and academic inquiry. She has been teaching illustration and observational drawing for more than 10 years across East Asia, Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
She completed her practice-based PhD at Loughborough University, where she developed her research interest in using collective drawing to illuminate the authentic stories of individuals. Her community-led practice reflects her interest in duality and multiplicity of identities and democratising arts practice to capture marginalised voices with multifaceted backgrounds. Her recent dyslexia diagnosis, coupled with the examiner’s comment about her ‘above-average visual capabilities compensating for verbal expression challenges,’ aptly highlights what she does best and the benefits it brings her.
She is currently a Research Associate at Loughborough University, developing immersive technologies to enhance learning. In her art practice, she is delving deep into her own stories of being an international student of 22 years into short and long-form comics to share them with the world. She shares these comics on her website and social media, hoping to demonstrate the power of personal stories to offer new insights and reveal new possibilities.
Email: karen@karenjysung.com
Henrietta Simson
Artist and researcher Henrietta Simson works with a variety of media to explore the possibilities available to the landscape image in a digital context framed by ecological crisis. Her interest lies in technology’s often invisible writing of our experience space, a quandary that affects ways of thinking about landscape and images, and how these are defined and encountered. Visual technologies have profoundly impacted our ways of seeing, representing and understanding our environment. Simson’s work presents an idea of landscape that facilitates a critical questioning of this overtly visual structuring of space.
She studied at the Slade, completing an MA in painting in 2007, and a practice-related PhD in 2017. Her thesis explored landscape through medieval and early Renaissance visual forms, the materiality of the image, and Renaissance perspective's role in the history of technological image-making.
Her writing has been published by Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming), Routledge and Museumsforlaget Press, Cambridge Scholars and Aesthetica Magazine, Minnesota Press and IB Tauris. She has presented her work and the ideas that inform it at institutions including Nottingham Contemporary, The Warburg Institute, The Renaissance Society of America, Stavanger Art Museum, The Lethaby Gallery, Slade Research Centre, Institute of Advanced Study UCL and The Courtauld Institute.
She teaches at Camberwell College of Arts in London and is currently researching the spiritual and material implications of caves, mines and wilderness in contemporary and medieval landscapes.
Email: h.simson@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
Artist and researcher Henrietta Simson works with a variety of media to explore the possibilities available to the landscape image in a digital context framed by ecological crisis. Her interest lies in technology’s often invisible writing of our experience space, a quandary that affects ways of thinking about landscape and images, and how these are defined and encountered. Visual technologies have profoundly impacted our ways of seeing, representing and understanding our environment. Simson’s work presents an idea of landscape that facilitates a critical questioning of this overtly visual structuring of space.
She studied at the Slade, completing an MA in painting in 2007, and a practice-related PhD in 2017. Her thesis explored landscape through medieval and early Renaissance visual forms, the materiality of the image, and Renaissance perspective's role in the history of technological image-making.
Her writing has been published by Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming), Routledge and Museumsforlaget Press, Cambridge Scholars and Aesthetica Magazine, Minnesota Press and IB Tauris. She has presented her work and the ideas that inform it at institutions including Nottingham Contemporary, The Warburg Institute, The Renaissance Society of America, Stavanger Art Museum, The Lethaby Gallery, Slade Research Centre, Institute of Advanced Study UCL and The Courtauld Institute.
She teaches at Camberwell College of Arts in London and is currently researching the spiritual and material implications of caves, mines and wilderness in contemporary and medieval landscapes.
Email: h.simson@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
Gareth Proskourine-Barnett
Gareth Proskourine-Barnett is a researcher, designer and educator. His practice employs research and design fictions to think about our relationship to space, new modes of materiality and speculative futures.
Gareth’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries across the UK and in Denmark, Thailand and China. He is currently working towards a PhD at the Royal College of Art and is a Senior Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts (MA Illustration).
Email: g.proskourinebarnett@arts.ac.uk
Gareth Proskourine-Barnett is a researcher, designer and educator. His practice employs research and design fictions to think about our relationship to space, new modes of materiality and speculative futures.
Gareth’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries across the UK and in Denmark, Thailand and China. He is currently working towards a PhD at the Royal College of Art and is a Senior Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts (MA Illustration).
Email: g.proskourinebarnett@arts.ac.uk
Marius Simkus
Marius is a Creative Digital Technology Specialist Technician
on the Illustration Programme at Camberwell.
Email: marius.simkus@arts.ac.uk
Marius is a Creative Digital Technology Specialist Technician
on the Illustration Programme at Camberwell.
Email: marius.simkus@arts.ac.uk