Meet the Tutors: Creative Arts and Digital Media
People are at the heart of everything we do at UCEN Manchester. We believe that your success is intrinsically linked to the support you receive both academically and personally.
Our staff are experts in their field and hold a varied range of professional and industry experience. Their support and dedication ensure you are guided, supported and encouraged to learn and achieve within your chosen subject.
Explore staff profiles for our Creative Arts and Digital Media team below.
Andrew teaches our BA (Hons) Photography and Social Practice with Open Eye Gallery.
Andrew is a visual artist and educator working in Manchester. His varied practice reuses and re-appropriates materials to form new collections and archives of photographs and pieces of dialogue to build stories and experience with others. The stories tell of people and their lives, tales and histories. The pieces recall time, environments and feelings.
After working as a Photojournalist in the early part of his career, Andrew has since worked as an artist designing and delivering education programmes at Manchester Art Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery, FACT Liverpool and the Liverpool Biennial.
He has curated both group and solo shows internationally and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Huddersfield. In 2020 Andrew was selected by University of Manchester as a PhD candidate.
Andrew takes great pride from “having the opportunity to write a BA programme to inspire the next generation of photographers in partnership with the Open Eye Gallery, an institution I have long respected.”
Paolo has been a practicing freelance graphic designer for over 20 years, working at a variety of small to larger design agencies with clients such as M&S, CocaCola, Tesco, Powergen, FHP City Living, Metropolitan Housing Trust, Budweiser, Commerzbank and Sanctuary records.
Paolo has recently completed a Masters in Creativity Thinking at UCLAN and currently runs specialist services in Design, Live illustration Recording and Spatial Graphics.
Alex has worked within the design industry for 25 years, working with small and medium enterprises, blue chip and public sector clients such as National Express, Manchester City Council and The Home Office. He has gained his industry experience from a wide range of positions including art-working, creative directing and client facing roles.
His teaching passions include developing a student’s visual proficiency, applying current thinking on how to create and communicate commercial design and advertising solutions, and also running application workshops.