Nigel West - Course Leader of the BA (Hons) Costume for the Screen and Stage, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Nigel West is responsible for the academic leadership of the undergraduate programme which has currently 160 students as well as having responsibility for validating the MA in Costume pathway which was validated for 2006. In addition to course leader duties Nigel is a member of: Institute Standards and Quality Committee, Sub group: working group to review research policy. Equality and Inclusivity committee,
Sub group: working group to evaluate Impact School Board of Study:
Design School Board of Study: Art (nominated member representing School of Design)
Course Board (chair) Course Examination Board
He takes full involvement with other Institutions, holding external examiner positions with Huddersfield University for their course, BA (Hons) Costume with Textiles and for Plymouth University for their FdA Course Make-Up for Media as well as being external advisor on validation events for Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.: BA (Hons) Costume Design and Construction. Plymouth University with Somerset College of Arts: FdA in Media Make-up and at De Montford University with Leicester College: FdA Fashion and Costume Crafts.
Deborah Landis - President of The Costume Designer’s Guild
Landis was awarded the first grant for Costume Design from the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States. After graduating from UCLA with an M.A. in Costume Design in 1975, she had a baptism in wardrobe working at NBC television.
Landis has designed costumes for over twenty Hollywood productions including such blockbusters as Blues Brothers and Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones.
Further designing for John Landis included Trading Places, An American Werewolf in London, ¡Three Amigos!, Coming to America and the costumes for the groundbreaking music video Michael Jackson's Thriller, winner of MTV's first music video award.
In addition to writing the chapter "Designing Hollywood: Women Costume
and Production Designers" in Women Designers in the USA 1900 - 2000,
Pat Kirkham, Editor, Yale University Press, New Haven & London,
2000, she is the author of “Screencraft: Costume Design”, Focal Press,
London, 2003. She has written the first doctoral dissertation in the
field of film costume design, “Scene And Not Heard: The Role of Costume
in the Cinematic Storytelling Process”, and graduated with a PhD in the
History of Design from the Royal College of Art in July 2003. Deborah
also compiled and edited the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences catalogue 50 Costumes/50 Designers: Concept to Character,
University of California Press, 2004, and is currently working on A
Century of Hollywood Costume to be published by HarperCollins, 2006.
Her award-winning
theatrical credits include work for the Virginia Opera ("Turandot,"
1993), American Conservatory Theatre ("Dinner at Eight," 1992 and
"Gaslight," 1995) as well as the Mark Taper Forum ("The Waiting Room,"
1994 and "Closer," 2000).
Ali Maclaurin - Course Leader for Costume Design and Construction and Theatre Production, Queen Margaret University College Edinburgh
As a stage designer and teacher Ali Maclaurin has practised for over twenty years particularly in physical theatre and young people’s work, at venues such as Battersea Arts Centre and the Albany Empire, Deptford and with companies such as Hull Truck, TAG, Scottish Opera, Triangle, Belgrade TIE Company, and the Fringe First winning Shadow Syndicate. She has a longstanding relationship with the Magic Eye Theatre in Peckham where she is at present working on a show collaborating with the cartoonist, Stephen Appleby, and where she has also worked on countless family shows combining music, visuals and a dynamic and pertinent script which revitalise the musical form. She is currently working on a project with Yvon Bonenfant, Lecturer in Performing Arts at the University of Winchester, which will be published in “Body, Space, Technology” later in 2006.
Abigail Hammond – Freelance Costume Designer and Educator, Croydon College, London College of Fashion, Laban Centre, and Wimbledon School of Art
Abigail has a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre from the Laban Centre where she specialised in design and has now been a freelance designer and educator for the past 20 years, creating designs for over 100 dance pieces. She was the resident designer of the National Youth Dance Theatre for 13 years, and Union Dance for 3 years. Theatre credits include costumes for 'The Hobbit', touring and West End, costumes and set for 'Chrysalids', a National Theatre Education project and a site specific devised theatre project for English Heritage, created with young people in Hounslow at Chiswick House. Her work has developed a distinct focus on physicality and theatricality. She has lectured on Design in Dance at the Royal Academy of Dancing and currently teaches at Croydon College, London College of Fashion, Laban Centre, and Wimbledon School of Art. Her most recent commission has been with acclaimed Zimbabwean choreographer Bawren Tavaziva, creating costumes for 5 works under the touring title 'Soul Inspired'.
Fiona Mathers – Senior Teaching Fellow, Performance Design and Production, University of Leeds
Fiona Mathers has a BA (Hons) in Drama and English and a M. Phil in Theatre Studies. In 1969 she initially started as a Assistant Stage Manager then Designer in various Repertory Theatres including Dundee, Bristol Old Vic and Marlowe Canterbury. She then moved to television working as a Costume Designer for BBC Scotland for 15 years. In 1995 she started her academic career as a Lecturer in Costume, Theatre Design and Technology at Bretton Hall College. Since 2001 she has been a Senior Teaching Fellow for Performance Design and Production at the University of Leeds. She is member of various groups including the International Federation for Theatre Research and the Centre for Theatre Research.
Hilary Baxter – Leader BA (Hons) Costume Design, Wimbledon School of Art
Hilary Baxter is the course Leader BA (Hons) Costume Design at the Wimbledon School of Art and a Freelance theatre designer, with experience of costume design for television, pop videos and budget films. Recently devising and directing theatre productions and short films, exploring different aspects of costume and costume design work. Hilary Baxter just registered a PhD proposal intended for completion on a part-time basis over the next five years. Professional credits include: Costume Design: 1998 'The Lost Vegas Series' (Riverside Studios) Set and Costume Design: 1997 'Dr Faustus' (RSC The Other Place) Costume Supervision: 1998 'Red Dwarf' T.V. Series 8 (BBC2 /Grant Naylor Prods).
Emanuele Lugli – Costume Designer and Ph.D. Student, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Emanuele Lugli studied Art History at Bologna University and Manchester University, followed by an MA course in Intellectual and Cultural History at the Warburg Institute, London. He is currently working toward a PhD in history of art and architecture at the institute of Fine Arts of the New York University with a thesis on the spatial production in twelfth-century northern Italy. He is author of several articles on art theory and cultural history, as well as many reviews for international magazines and newspapers including Exhibart magazine and Donna magazine and has worked on numerous theatre and film productions.
Linda Mattock – BBC Design Consultant: VISION Manager
Linda Mattock is an Award winning costume designer with extensive experience of design practice, education and training. Linda started her design career briefly in theatre and then moved to television as a costume design assistant at the BBC. She joined London Weekend television in 1976 working as a costume designer on many acclaimed television production. She left LWT in 1989 to become a freelance designer. Linda has achieved industry recognition for her work, being awarded a BAFTA for costume design in 1986 and presented to Her Majesty the Queen to represent design for television. Teaching has always been a part of her career, first as a principal lecturer at The London College of Fashion and then leading the BBC Design Initiatives and trainee scheme.
In recent years she has been responsible for the development and delivery of BBC design strategies and industry representation for design standards and continues her own creative practice as an artist and painter.
Donatella Barbieri – Course Director Costume and Make-up, London College of Fashion
To follow
Julia Reeve – Lecturer BA (Hons) Theatre Design, Nottingham Trent University and Fashion and Textile Programmes, De Montfort University
Julia Reeve currently lectures on the BA (Hons) Theatre Design course at Nottingham Trent University, as well as on fashion and textile programmes at De Montfort University.
Julia studied Fashion & Textiles at Leicester Polytechnic, graduating in 1983. After working as a designer for manufacturers to high street stores Julia moved into teaching. She initially developed and led a highly vocational NVQ 2 programme in Fashion Design, as well as delivering lectures on a range of fashion and costume courses at Leicester College. Julia became Course Leader for the HND in Theatre Costume Design at Leicester College in 2000: she continued in this role until early 2006.
In 2004 Julia completed an MA by Registered Project in Theatre Arts at Nottingham Trent University: her research project explored the potential for Computer Aided Design within the theatre costume curriculum. As part of the project she developed a Computer Aided Design for costume teaching package incorporating a module specification, teaching model and resources for both learning and teaching.
Anne Curry – Senior Lecturer in Costume Design and Interpretation, Nottingham Trent University
Anne Curry has a degree in theatre design and completed two years post graduate study at the Slade School of Art. She received the Sir Barry Jackson Memorial Scholarship; The Jacobs Memorial Award; and has worked in Rome, Florence and Vienna after receiving a travel bursary from the Royal Society of Arts. A wide variety of design experience includes both resident and freelance work. Anne worked at Oldham Coliseum after receiving an Arts Council Design Bursary. "Dreams of San Francisco" (Bush Theatre 1978) won the Thames Television Award for Best Production; "The Boys in the Band" (King's Head and Aldwych Theatre 1997); The Vivian Ellis Prize (Her Majesty's Theatre 1997).
She joined the department of theatre design at Nottingham Trent University in January 2002 as senior lecturer in Costume Design and Interpretation. Prior to that she was Course Director for BA (Hons) Theatre Design, BA (Hons) Performance Design and MA Scenography at the University of Central England. She is currently completing an MA in Education and has been a visiting tutor at Central School of Speech and Drama. Nine recent designs for the Birmingham Theatre School include the Shakespeare in Education Tour and "Oh, What A Lovely War!" performed in the Social History Gallery of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Adele Keeley – Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Costume for Screen and Stage, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
After finishing her studies in Costume at the Bournemouth and Poole College of Arts and Design, Adele worked in industry as a costume maker on a variety of large and small scale productions. She returned to The Arts Institute at Bournemouth in 2001 as a Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Costume for the Screen and Stage. Alongside her teaching Adele continues to work professionally and focuses her work on costume designing, which supports her research into computer aided rendering. In her most recent work in May 2006 Adele designed the costumes for ‘Within these Walls’ a collaborative project performed by C-Scape Dance Company in celebration of new sculpture exhibition at Havant Arts Centre.
In February 2006, as a result of the Institutes widening participation strategy Adele as part of the BA Costume team, received a HEFCE staff award ‘in recognition for outstanding achievement and commitment to volunteering’. This award was achieved through the continuing work of the BA Costume course team that enables student to work with a local school as part of a Peer Assisted Learners programme.
Graham Cottenden - Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Costume for Screen and Stage, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Graham graduated in Theatre Design from Wimbledon School of Art. He is a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Costume for the Screen and Stage course at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
He has worked in full time higher education for 11 years after nearly 20 years as a freelance costume designer and maker. His specialist area is Male costume and tailoring.
Graham has recently completed an MA at Middlesex University in research and practice in costume. This work is in preparation for a book Graham is developing on 18th century male costume.
In February 2005, as part of the BA costume team, Graham received a HEFCE staff award in ‘recognition for outstanding achievement and commitment to volunteering’. This award was achieved through the continuing work of the BA Costume course team that enables students to work with a local school as part of a Peer Assisted Learning programme. Graham continues to do professional practice, working on interactive costume for the Victoria and Albert Museum and delivering costume workshops in Europe and the USA.
Brigid Strowbridge – Pathway Leader BA (Hons) Costume for the Performing Arts, London College of Fashion
Brigid Strowbridge, a Costumier of 40 years standing.
Brigid has worked for the English National Opera, Angels & Burmans
and Trend Costumiers. She was a freelance costume maker for a number of
years prior to becoming the BA Costume pathway leader at London College
of Fashion where she now lectures full time. Brigid is also a trustee
of the Costume Society.
Susie Hotchkies – Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Fashion Studies & BA (Hons) Costume for Screen and Stage, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Graduating from the University of Portsmouth with a BA (Hons) Historical Studies, Suzie Hotchkies went on to successfully complete a Masters degree – History of Textiles and Dress, Winchester School of Art (1996) and has currently progressed from MPhil to the DPhil stage of her Doctorate, again with the University of Portsmouth. She has, for the current academic year, 2005-2006, been Co-Acting Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Fashion Studies degree.
In collaboration with the Design Council Archive (held at the University of Brighton) she published Fabrics Forming Society (Designing Britain: the visual experience of post-war society, 1945-1975) www.designingbritain.org (2002)
This utilised the AIB museum status Design Collection of 1950/1960s dresses, and is used as a teaching module for students. Suzie has published, ‘Cutting the Cloth to Suit – A Draper gets the Measure of His Customer’ in, Text Vol 26:1998, has recently presented a paper, E Gisbourne, Fashion Study Book of the 1960s at the Winchester School of Art, and delivered a lecture as part of the ‘Spotlight On’ series at The Lighthouse, Poole, entitled Screen Costume: Representing and Interpreting Time.
Her particular key areas of specialist practice interest is Haute Couture fashion – its role, development and evolvement from the post World War II era through to its signifying place in the 21st century, and its relation to contemporary and innovative couture. How this is placed, the representation and interpretation of Haute Couture in cinematic production, and indeed, how ‘fashion’ is defined in film, links the two very extreme disciplines. Further, French cinema and its particular costume ideals is an ongoing research process.