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Staff and teaching
At CSVPA our lecturers are all practising artists, designers and practitioners, with UK and International experience. For example, our Fine Art Tutor is Artist in Residence at Christ's College Cambridge; our Drama Voice Lecturer was Voice Coach for the Royal Shakespeare Company's recent production of Hamlet, and our Head of Fashion has designed for Top Shop and H&M amongst others.
Meet just a few of our talented staff by clicking on their images below...
Drama
Jean Rebecca Chris Lane
Stewart Cuthbertson Movement
Acting Voice
Art & Design
Chris Kevin Hart John Jane Herzog Issam Tom Ingham Richard Mandy Doyle
Maughan Academic Blackman Fashion Kourbaj Film Bray Illustration
Head of Director Graphics Fine Art Sculpture
CSVPA
Matthew
Sanderson
Sculpture
Music
Sarah Vivian Choi Michael Bruce Cameron
Goodbourn Piano Tutor Barnes Guitar and
Head of Music Drum Tutor Saxophone Tutor
Head of CSVPA
Christopher Maughan, MSIAD
Chris is Head of CSVPA, a professional designer-maker and teaches Theatre Arts.
"I have been exhibiting as a visual artist since I was 14 years old gaining my first commission at the age of 15. High profile clients include Saatchi and Saatchi and the BBC and of many TV characters the most notable is Nobby the Sheep!
I am now Head of Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts and also manage the provision of A level Art at our academic sister college, CATS Cambridge.
What I you enjoy most about CSVPA is helping students fulfil their artistic ambitions with a team of dedicated and experienced tutors."
Academic Director
Kevin Hart
Kevin is a Fine Artist with twenty years experience of teaching in Higher Education. Previous roles include senior lecturer for MA Communication Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
He has exhibited work widely in both group and solo exhibitions at venues such as the National Army Museum in Chelsea, Lethaby Gallery in Holborn, Mall Galleries in Pall Mall and Great Saint Mary’s Church in Cambridge. His work has been published by Reed International, Mitchell Beazley and Bloomsbury Books.
Applied Crafts
Matthew Sanderson
Matthew is a well-known local artist, specialising in tied-wire sculpture and kinetic water features for international clients. His works – often based on organic and animal forms – have been exhibited in museums, galleries and public sites around the UK. He also teaches Applied Crafts to our Art & Design Foundation students at CSVPA.
His most recent work, The Corpus Clock. was unveiled by Professor Stephen Hawking and is located in the centre of Cambridge. It took seven years to develop, and its massive round face, nearly 4ft in diameter, was engineered from a single sheet of stainless steel, the mouldings literally blasted into place by precisely-controlled explosions under the sea. Seated on top of the clock is a giant grasshoper, or "chronophage" which symbolically 'eats' time as the minutes progress.
Technical Lecturer/Fashion
Tiina Burton
Tiina graduated with a first class honours degree from London College of Fashion and has been designing and making clothes since she was very young. As well as working in the fashion department at CSVPA, Tiina runs her own online business selling clothing and photographic prints.
She specialises in ethical clothing, using reclaimed or organic materials with natural dyes and her clothing has been shown inthe 'Nautical but nice' exhibition at the Cambridge Museum of Technology. Her photography has been exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair in London and at the Pocket Utopia gallery in New York.
Lecturer: Film/Animation
Tom Ingham
Tom has over 20 years' experience of delivering courses in Art & Design and joined CSVPA in 1993 after lecturing at Anglia Ruskin University - one of the leading institutions for film and video.
After graduating with an MA from Central St Martins, Tom set up SuchLovelyPictures, a web design and video production company whilst going on to publish work including 'A Clockwork Orange - Kubrick's Practice Examined' (Kaplan Publishing 2002).
Tom continues to play a large part in the community with involvement in projects such as 'Poets Live' with Cambridge Community Arts, Eastern Art's MADD festival and Video 33, Luton.
Lecturer: Photography / Sculpture / Contextual Studies
Richard Bray
Richard is a widely exhibited and commissioned sculptor. He recently co-operated with scientists to produce work for the Wellcome Trust Genome campus. He teaches Photography, Sculpture and Contextual Studies at CSVPA.
Head of Fashion & Surface Design
Jane Herzog
Jane trained in fashion design at UCA Epsom, graduating in 1981. She has more than 15 years' experience as a fashion designer for most high street fashion retailers including Top Shop, H&M and Marks & Spencers. She worked as a fashion designer from 1981 until 1997 and has been lecturing since 1997.
Head of Graphic Design, Illustration & Moving Image
John Blackman
John has worked in the UK and internationally as a commercial freelance Illustrator/Designer for over 20 years, serving clients such as Penguin Books, Harper Collins, BBC, Random House, Oxford University Press, Dutton, Ladybird,Scholastics, Usborne, Procter & Gamble, Cadbury Schwepps, Virgin Airways, Macmillan, The Observer, Speedo, Co-op and Cambridge University Press.
He joined CSVPA in 2001 and has seen many students grow into successful graphic designers and illustrators within the supportive environment of CSVPA.
Lecturer: Illustration
Mandy Doyle
Mandy studied at Camberwell College of Art & Design, part of the University of the Arts London group, and has worked as a successful freelance illustrator for 23 years.
Her work has been commissioned by most of the leading publishers in the country and includes high level advertising projects in a range of media. Her love of illustration led her to the MA course in Childern's Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University and her work in the local community includes workshops and exhibitions at venues such as Cambridge Corn Exchange.
Lecturer: Fine Art
Issam Kourbaj
Issam is a sculptor, painter and theatre designer based in Cambridge. He studied in Damscus under the well-known Syrian artist Fateh Moudarres (d.1999), before completing his training in St Petersburg and London.
Some of his work is in the collections of the Department of Middle East and the Department of Prints & Drawings of the British Museum; he has exhibited on three continents.
Since 1989 he has lived in Cambridge and is now a Bye-Fellow at Christ's College and Artist in Residence there. For the past five years his work has drawn inspiration from the world of science.
Drama
Head of Drama & Performing Arts
Jean Stewart
Jean teaches acting on the Drama Foundation bringing with her more than 20 years of professional experience.
Jean trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) and Glasgow University. She has worked in theatre in education both here and in Europe (Spain and Germany) for over twenty years. She has experience working in community theatre with adults and in developing new writing for young people through the National Theatre Connexions programme, working on plays such as Friendly Fire by Peter Gill. More recently Jean acted with Menagerie Theatre Company during their 2006 season of New Writing.
Jean has been director of the drama foundation for four years and teaches the acting element of the course. She has directed a diverse number of plays throughout her career most recently Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Gogal's The Government Inspector and The Threepenny Opera in the summer of 2008 for the Drama Foundation programme.
Voice Lecturer
Rebecca Cuthbertson
Voice coaching includes: Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company), John & Jen (Finborough Theatre), A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer (London premiere), A Devilish Exercise (The Rose Theatre Trust), Timon and Beckett’s Shorts (Central School of Speech and Drama), Comedy of Errors (Creation Theatre, Oxford), Full Frontal Diva (Finborough Theatre). Lecturing: Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts and East 15 school of acting. Private coaching includes: developmental voice, text for audition and dialect/dialect-reduction. Education: MA in Voice Studies from Central School of Speech and Drama, Bachelors degree in Education, BA (Hons) English Literature and Theatre Arts.
Movement Lecturer
Christopher Lane
Theatre directing includes: John & Jen (UK premiere. Finborough Theatre, London), A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer by Eve Ensler (London premiere), A Devilish Exercise: Conjuring Marlowe at the Rose (Into The Breach Theatre and The Rose Theatre Trust), Timon (a site-specific adaptation of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens), Beckett’s Shorts (an anthology of Samuel Beckett: play, not i, rough for theatre i). Lecturing UK: movement studies for CSVPA and Central School of Speech and Drama. Lecturing Canada: Brock University, Theatre Aquarius, the Hamilton Wentworth board of education. Education: MA in Directing with distinction from Central School of Speech and Drama, Bachelor’s degree in Education, BA (Hons) in History.
Head of Music
Sarah Goodbourn
Sarah has been playing flute for 20 years and has a licentiate diploma in performance on this instrument. Sarah studied a Bachelor of Music at the Conservatorium of Music in Melbourne. She majored in performance and teaching and gained honours in all subjects. She took lessons in Scotland and England when she graduated and then went back to Australia to complete her Diploma of Education. Sarah received first-class honours and dux of her year.
Sarah has taught instrumental lessons for about 10 years (flute, piano and recorder) and has performed with orchestras and jazz groups in Melbourne. She now performs with the Kings College Orchestra and other chamber groups around Cambridge.
Piano Tutor and Music Lecturer
Vivian Choi DMA MMus(Lond) LRSM
Vivian studied music at the Royal College of Music and King’s College in London, and holds a Doctorate from State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has won many awards as a pianist, including the Washington International Competition for Pianists and has performed in the UK, Far East, USA and Europe to favourable reviews.
Drum Tutor
Michael Barnes
Michael has fifteen years experience of performing drums and percussion on international pop tours, in orchestras and jazz bands, and in theatre productions. He has worked with and alongside some great musicians and big names, such as Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Real Thing, and the cast of BBC TV's "Eastenders". He also has ten years of teaching experience, throughout which he has taught extensively in schools and colleges and from his own purpose-built studio. Michael has had a number of students who have themselves gone on to become professional musicians.
Guitar and Saxophone Tutor
Bruce Cameron
Bruce has a Performer's Diploma on guitar, and teaches a variety of styles on both electric and nylon-stringed guitar. Students may take exams in Rock, Acoustic and Classical or simply play for fun. He also plays saxophone in Jazz, African and World Fusion bands and teaches Jazz Improvisation. His performances include playing for private Royal events and more recently for the famous TV chef Jamie Oliver's New Year's Eve party.
