Art and design

Fine art staff

Josie Bland

Associate Lecturer, Contextual Studies Fine Art
T: 01642 342363 | E: j.bland@tees.ac.uk
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Phil Gatenby

Principal Lecturer and Head of Section, Fine Art
T: 01642 348060 | E: p.gatenby@tees.ac.uk
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Dr James Hellings

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
T: 01642 738269 | E: j.hellings@tees.ac.uk
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Lesley Hicks

Lecturer in Fine Art
E: l.hicks@tees.ac.uk
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Dr Julie Livsey

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
T: 01642 348060 | E: j.livsey@tees.ac.uk

Professor Matthew Rampley

Professor in Art and Visual Culture
T: 01642 342594 | E: m.rampley@tees.ac.uk
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Lewis Robinson

Lecturer in Fine Art
E: lewis.robinson@tees.ac.uk

‘I studied at Loughborough College of Art, Hull College of Higher Education and Newcastle Polytechnic. In my 25 years as a practicing sculptor, I have exhibited at a wide range of venues both nationally and internationally. These include the Laing Gallery, Newcastle; the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal; the Arc, Stockton; the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; the Maryland Institute of the Art, Baltimore; the Gallerie 175, Dozule, France, and the Museum of Modern Art in Bratislava, Slovakia.

I have also carried out a number of public commissions in the North East - the most recent was a commemorative sculptural installation to celebrate the making of the film ‘Atonement’ on Redcar beach 2007. My most recent solo exhibition was at the Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre 2007.

My sculptural practice is concerned with the physical and psychological experience of travelling and space. Memory also plays a part in my work. I adopt architectural motifs and domestic furniture as a way of carrying these ideas into the minds of the viewer setting up a dialogue between what is a habitable and an impenetrable space.

My drawings explore a diverse range of ideas from travelling through physical space on a motorbike to more claustrophobic psychological space. I continue to seek ways of reinventing the object through sculptural improvisation, combining recycled and made forms to create new meanings and chains of signification. The mental and physical process of making objects in this way is aligned with a desire to explore personal and psychological space with what he describes as ‘allotment technology’ reiterating physically and metaphorically the fragility and precariousness of human existence.'