Participants
Anthony Rose
Anthony Rose joined the BBC in September 2007 as Head of Digital Media Technology within the Corporation’s Future Media & Technology Department. Anthony heads up the BBC’s iPlayer project, and is responsible for delivering the next generation of the BBC iPlayer, as well as realis...
Anthony Roussel
Anthony Roussel The synthesis between drawing and architecture are the fundamental re occurring themes in Anthony’s work. The jewellery he creates function as sculptural objects as well as wearable pieces of body adornment in their own right.
Beth Derbyshire
Beth Derbyshire is an artist, choreographer and entrepreneur. She was classically trained at The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, but has diverted her more traditional skills into the realms of performance, video installation and graphic design. Her work is deeply involved with the personal and pol...
Chi Hoe Mak
Born in Penang, Malaysia, Chi Hoe obtained his MMus with Distinction from the Birmingham Conservatoire where he studied singing with Gordon Sandison. He currently studies with Henry Herford at the Conservatoire on the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma course on a scholarship. Initially trained as a ...
Chris Cooke
Chris is Managing Director of UnLimited Media, a London based media and marketing company, and Editor of its two main media platforms, CMU and ThreeWeeks.
Christopher Hodson
Christopher Hodson, born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1985, works with a vast array of materials, processes and visual languages; producing sculpture, installation works, sound, performance and prints. His work is focused on elements of scientific endeavor and art’s relationship to s...
Colin Scott
Colin was born in Lanark, Scotland, in 1985 and began to study the piano at the age of seven. In 1999 he was accepted into the Music School of Douglas Academy, Glasgow, to study piano with Jean Hutchison. After winning a scholarship to study at Birmingham Conservatoire, Colin continued his studi...
Daniele Rosina
Born in 1979, Daniele began his musical studies in Bournemouth. In 1997 he gained a place at Birmingham Conservatoire, studying Clarinet with Michael Harris and conducting with Andrew Mogrelia and Edwin Roxborough. During his time at the Conservatoire, Daniele conducted all the major ensembles,...
Dave Holland
A new prize, adjudicated by one of the biggest names in jazz, will recognise outstanding musicians trained in Birmingham. Run in partnership by Birmingham Conservatoire (part of Birmingham City University) and Birmingham Jazz, the Dave Holland Jazz Ensemble Award is open to jazz ensembles featur...
David Viney
David, graduated with a BA (Hons) in Visual Art by Negotiated Study, First class honours. His work has included collaborations with various lecturers including video production, web design work and photography. From 2001-2004 David was a freelance web designer. Commissions included work for O...
Doug Williams
Dr Doug Williams is project director, leading large collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects for BT that address the development of new communication and media applications that can be delivered over broadband.
Dr. Myfanwy Johns
Myfanwy Johns completed PhD research in 2006 at the University of Gloucestershire into cutting edge application of new technologies to develop ornamentation in architecture. Johns creates geometric repeat and one-off surface patterns that envelop and define architectural structure. Her exploratio...
Ed Bennett
Ed Bennett was born in Ireland and is a composer working in the fields of notated, electronic and improvised contemporary musics. His music, which has been described in the press as “anarchic” (Irish Times), “manic” (Classical Music), “brutal” (The Guardian) a...
Françoise Dupré
Françoise Dupré is renowned for her context-based and collaborative textile projects. Her work celebrates the vernacular and creative skills that are invisible, marginal or being lost through migration, socio-economic changes and globalisation.
Helen Berrow
Helen recently graduated with a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts by Negotiated Study at Birmingham City University and she is now continuing to practice as an artist. In 2007 Helen was awarded a Rhubarb Rhubarb bursary to attend the International Festival of the Image and recently she has completed an ...
Helen Brown
Helen Brown came to Birmingham in 2004 to study on the Fine Art BA at Birmingham City University, formerly University of Central England. For the last three years she has focussed her practise on the moving image. The main concern of her work is with the presentation of an adjusted version of...
Henrik Schrat
Henrik Schrat lives in Greiz, Germany and has studied a PhD in Dpt. Management, Accounting, Finance at University of Essex in 2006, an MA in Fine Art Media at Slade School of Fine Art in 2002 and graduated from University of Fine Arts, Dresden in Department Stage Design / Painting.
Jane Prophet
Jane Prophet, a renowned British visual artist, uses traditional and new media and materials to produce surprising and beautiful objects. Site-specific installations include Conductor, a flooded power station lit with 120 electro luminescent cables. Decoy and The Landscape Room combine images of...
Janet Hodgson
Janet Hodgson is an artist and senior lecturer at Birmingham City University’s Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD), she trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art and now makes video and installation art. The work is site specific, multidisciplinary, performative and o...
Joanna Geary
Joanna Geary is a young digital journalist using social media to build communities around regional newspapers. She started her career at The Birmingham Post as a business journalist and, since then, has gone on to design build and maintain the newspaper's new blogging platform bringing together m...
Joanna Szalewska
Joanna was born in 1983 in Poland. She attended Primary and Secondary Music School in Lublin (where she was given many artistic scholarships from a President of the City), which she graduated with a distinction. Then she passed the entering exams to Music Academy in Krakow with high notations an...
John Garghan
John Garghan, Birmingham based artist, studied Fine Art BA (Hons) at Solihull College, franchised through Birmingham City University. Since then John has been building up his own photography practice, showcasing his work in many exhibitions and has had his photograph ‘Shared Earth’...
John Hollenbeck
Composer, Drummer, Percussionist, Bandleader, Teacher John Hollenbeck’s versatility as a percussionist and composer is revealed in a body of work that challenges countless boundaries. Performances with Fred Hersh, Tony Malaby and Bob Brookmeyer have showcased Hollenbeck’s melodic an...
Jonathan Green
Jonathan began his musical training when he was six years old and was awarded the Yamaha Music School (Bradford) Musician of the Year Award at the age of fifteen. He later trained at the Leeds College of Music where he studied classical harmony and counterpoint alongside jazz and was awarded th...
Julian Lloyd Webber
Widely regarded as one of the most creative musicians of his generation, Julian Lloyd Webber was a scholar at the Royal College of Music and completed his studies in Geneva with the renowned French cellist, Pierre Fournier. Since then he has collaborated with an extraordinary array of musicians...
Juneau Projects
Philip Duckworth was born in Iserlohn, Germany in 1976. He studied fine art at Coventry University, graduating in 1999. Ben Sadler was born in Birmingham in 1977. He studied fine art at The Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford, (graduating in 1998) and at The Royal College of Art, Lo...
Karina Thompson
Karina Thompson has worked as a textile artist in the West Midlands for 20 years. In that time she has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. She has recently increased the scale of her pieces and work within the context on contemporary quilt making
Keir Williams
Keir graduated from Birmingham City University’s BA (Hons) Fine Art Course in 2004 and a MA in Fine Art in 2007. During his research for his Masters he worked as a research assistant at Birmingham City University with the Visualisation Research Unit (VRU). His work with the VRU included ...
Kit Poulson
Although painting has always been at the core of Kit’s practice, he works in a variety of media, much of his work might be characterised as installation or live art. Previous to studying Fine Art at Middlesex University he has had experience working in the theatre and completed a degree i...
Krystof Kriz
Krystof Kriz is photographer based in the UK and in the Czech Republic. He is currently working part-time at the School of Art at Margaret Street and as a freelance photographer. In 2007 Kriz has gained MA with distinction in Visual Communication at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, be...
Kwan Chun In Snorlax
Kwan graduated from Birmingham City University’s BA (Hons) course in Visual Communication in 2006, she is fully qualified in graphic design and a keen illustrator, both digital and analogue, but her real passion is for photography. Over the last year she has photographed in Hong Kong, Chi...
Lionel Friend
Lionel Friend was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Music, where he won all the major conducting prizes. His teachers included Sir Adrian Boult, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt and Sir Colin Davis.After further study at the London Opera Centre he was engaged by Welsh National Opera and ...
Lisa Metherell
Lisa Metherell is an installation artist living in Birmingham. She has exhibited in Dublin, Cardiff and at various venues in Birmingham. Her recent Birmingham City University’s MA Fine Art show installation Club Zhooshy was awarded the Ikon Gallery Prize. Her work is concerned with cre...
Marcus Dross
*Marcus Dross* was born in 1968. He studied Applied Theatre Studies with Heiner Goebbels, Herbert Blau, Patric Pavis, Conny Beckley, Straub/Huilet, Hans Peter Kuhn and Ruth Berghaus (Burgtheater Wien) in Giessen, Germany.
Mark Essen
Mark Essen has recently graduated from Birmingham City University’s BA in Fine Art. Since graduating his work has been showcased in Leicester’s City Art Gallery and ‘Plus’ festival. Mark is now a practicing artist and believes by being a practicing artist you can unders...
Michael Wolters
Michael Wolters was born in 1971. He studied Applied Theatre Studies in Germany and Composition in Huddersfield (BA, MA) and in Birmingham (PhD). His works have been performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the ISCM World Music Days 1998 in Manchester, Spitalfields Festival, th...
Miranda Sharpe
Miranda enjoys the challenges of designing and producing a unique range of jewellery that holds commercial possibilities, alongside opportunities to create one-off or commission specific pieces that can be larger/bolder in design. With the help of technology Miranda translates her designs into ob...
Mona Casey
Mona Casey is an artist and curator who lives in Birmingham and works both individually and collaboratively. She is co-founder of Colony an artist’s run space and also writes for a-n. She has shown more recently in Zoo Art Fair 2007, Colony, London; Mise en Scene, MAMA, Rotterdam; Misdem...
Nicola Monaghan
Nicola Monaghan has worked as a teacher, a financial analyst and a software guru. She now works part-time as Fellow of the National Academy of Writing, based at Birmingham City University. Boyd Tonkin included Nicola in the Independent’s New Years Eve list of rising talent for 2006. Her fi...
Nikki Pugh
Nikki's projects often originate from a key question or exploratory mechanism and are then opened out to be influenced by the participation of others.
Paul Dunmall
For thirty years Paul Dunmall has carved out a reputation for himself and is now widely recognised as one of the most uncompromising and talented reed players on the International jazz/improvised music scene. Whether playing in small groups or big bands his musical sensitivity and imagination co...
Percy Pursglove
After graduating from the Birmingham Conservatoire’s BMus(Hons) Jazz course with first class honours, Percy obtained a scholarship to study on the Jazz and Contemporary Music Program at the New School University, New York City.
Phil Barber
Phil Barber, Birmingham based artist works primarily with video installation; projection and monitor based works in video, super 8mm film and other retro technologies. In 2005 he worked with the group ‘Smack’, initially five artists practicing in the city. Shows included ‘Die ...
Rachael Marchant
Rachael Marchant, an enthusiastic and dedicated art graduate, attended City of Bath College Foundation Diploma Course where she began her work with video receiving a distinction pass. She then gained a place at on the BA Hons Fine Art Course at Birmingham City University specialising in video p...
Rachel Bradley
Rachel Bradley was born in Lichfield in 1968 and is an independent curator and cultural practitioner specialising in visual art. During the 1990s she worked in exhibitions at Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow and as Commissions Manager at Public Art Commissions Agency, Birmingham. Based in...
Rebeca Omordia
Born in Romania, Rebeca Omordia studied at the National Music University in Bucharest, from 2002- 2006, with the well- known pianist and teacher Dana Borsan. During her studying years in Bucharest, she won many prizes at national and international piano competitions: 2005 – Semifinalist in...
Refiye Mehmet
British-born to Turkish parents, Refiye began learning the piano at the age of seven. She competed in many district competitions in her home county throughout her youth. In 2003 she was selected to perform with the National Youth Music Theatre in Belfast, in the performance of a newly-commission...
Richard Stilgoe
After 40 years in show business, composer, songwriter, and entertainer Richard Stilgoe inspires great affection. His own generation remembers him on Today, Nationwide and That’s Life, combining humour and melody to add tuneful gaiety to the nation. The next couple of generations loved the...
Rita Patel
Rita Patel makes contemporary jewellery in silver and gold. She enjoys making tactile pieces often incorporating moving pieces within her work
Rory Cellan-Jones
Rory Cellan-Jones has been a reporter for the BBC for more than two decades, covering business and technology stories for much of that time. His on-screen career began as reporter for Wales Today in Cardiff, from where he moved to London as a reporter on Breakfast Time. He quickly transferred t...
Sabina Fazlic
Sabina Fazlic studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently completing a PhD on residential sustainable towers at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, where she is a recipient of an Overseas Research Students Award. She has worked on a variety of ...
Sarah Jane Bellion
Sarah – Jane is an artist based in Birmingham. Her work is an exploration of the medium of painting and the relationship which it has with more technological mediums such as video. Within this area of interest, Sarah – Jane also explores the issue of titles and text within Art. Sh...
Scott Wilson
Scott lives in Birmingham, UK teaching at Birmingham City University, working with BEAST where life, generally speaking is good.
Shuang Hao
Shuang Hao was born in China in 1984, and began her musical studies at the age of three, winning numerous prizes at competitions at an early age. In 2002 she began to study with Prof. Anna Smekhova at R.M.Glier Kyiv State Higher Music College in the Ukraine, obtaining her BA degree in piano perf...
Sian Hughes
Whilst studying for a degree in Jewellery and Silversmithing at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham Sians work evolved to rely on simplicity and sensitivity to the materials, forms, colours and textures.
Sue Challis
Sue Challis is an emerging Midlands artist who has exhibited in Birmingham, London and Shropshire. Her work, mainly video and video installation, draws on feminist and Queer Art theory in its preoccupation with identity and marginalisation. In a recent work, ‘Reading Agatha Christie&rsq...
Susan McNally
Curator of the Jewellery Exhibition, Susan McNally, originally from Liverpool, graduated in an MA in History of Art and Design at Birmingham City Univeristy (formerly University of Central England) since then she has worked in galleries in both the public and commercial sectors as an arts project...
Tatiana Dardykina
Born in Moscow, Tatiana graduated with honours from the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, where she studied with professor Alexander Mndoyants. She has been a prize-winner of several international piano competitions, gaining the Top prize and the Special prize for the performance of the 20t...
The Bosnian Cultural Centre-Midlands (BCCM)
The Bosnian Cultural Centre-Midlands (BCCM) is a registered company and a charity organisation which brings together Bosnians who live in the Midlands including Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Coventry.
Theo Bleckmann
Genre -bending, -skipping and -skirting vocalist and composer, Theo Bleckmann has been a steady force in the music scene in New York for over 15 years. Unusually versatile , Bleckmann has performed worldwide on some of the great stages including Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, the Sydney Oper...
Toni Kim
Final year typography student Toni Kim will each carry three opening sentences of a potential online story to be written during the New Generation Arts Festival by members of the public. Led by Betty Trask award winning novelist Nicola Monaghan and written by Creative Writing MA student Gabrielle...
Ulrike Haage
Ulrike Haage is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer, producer and director of her own radio productions, she originally studied music and music therapy in Hamburg. Haage has just released her ground breaking new album Weisses Land and is currently on an international tour. In 2004 Ulr...
Yin Shan Hsieh
EducationShih-Min High School Graduated 2003Birmingham Conservatoire BMus (Hons) 2003-2008Current teachers are James Strebing, Liz Gilliver, Jon Herbert, Malcolm Garrett and Alonso MendosaMasterclasses include Ney Rosauro, Zivkovic, Friedman and Lorenzo Ferrandiz. Competition Successes2002 Fi...
