MEET YOUR TUTORS
KEVIN DEAN
ARTIST TUTOR AND FOUNDER
A highly versatile artist Kevin Dean has illustrated books, designed textiles and ceramics as well as printmaking and painting for galleries. Trained at the Royal College of Art London, Kevin has also worked as a visiting and part-time tutor at various colleges and universities in the UK and abroad. He has given lectures at the V&A museum and Greenwich Art Gallery.
The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque commission which Kevin was involved in from 2001 - 2009 was of significant importance to his career and led to other work in the region.
JACQUELINE MAIR
ARTIST TUTOR
Jacqueline Mair is well known for her collage work, she also specialises in water based painting, printmaking and drawing. Jacqui has worked as an international artist and illustrator for over thirty years. She has an MA in printmaking from the Royal College of Art London and has taught at the University of Portsmouth and Savannah College of Art and Design, USA and Lacoste, France. As a painter she has exhibited in the USA, Mexico, France and India. Her clients as an illustrator include The Royal Mail, The Financial Times, Microsoft, Roger la Borde, Orange, The New Yorker.
MATAIO AUSTIN DEAN
ARTIST TUTOR
Matiao Austin Dean is an artist, poet, musician and activist from Portsmouth, Hampshire, who graduated with First Class Honours from a BA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2020.
His work is concerned with the relationship between printmaking and orality, with works often consisting of etchings and other printed matter, along with singing, writing, reciting and speaking. Mataio has a studio in London and has taught printmaking, drawing and painting in schools in the East End of London and run workshops for the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton.
DEB DODSWORTH
ARTIST TUTOR
Deb Dodsworth specialises in alternative photographic techniques, drawing and printmaking. Interested in semiotics and devices that affect/interrupt the reading of an object and how this changes the relationship of the object with its audience. Deb attended Goldsmiths for her postgraduate degree in Art and Design Education and has over 20 years of experience teaching Art and Photography. She completed her BA (Hons) Fine Art Multimedia at Kingston University, where she won a scholarship to NCAD Ireland, for a year to concentrate on aspects of photography and printmaking. Deb is also known for her work as an outreach artist for the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) and was invited to meet, HRH Princess Anne to show and discuss heritage and lottery funded community art projects created (in conjunction with NMRN) with children from deprived areas of Portsmouth.
KARL RUDZIAK
ARTIST TUTOR
Rudziak is a figurative painter and artist based in Portsmouth and Southsea, with a focus on portraiture. His main areas of interest lie in social issues particularly social and palliative care, exploring attitudes to death and mental health through community engagement.
Rudziak’s portrait practice examines multiple perspectives towards the word culture and the elitist connotations it can invoke, particularly in the context of arts and culture in Portsmouth. His intent is to challenge knee-jerk judgments, stereotyping and classifying people through their appearance by examining how portraiture can act as a catalyst for communication and therapy.
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LORRAINE MOLINS
ARTIST TUTOR
Lorraine Molins B.A (Hons) Fine Art, ATC
Lorraine Molins is an abstract painter, who studied at
Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College,
University of London. She received an Arts Council
Award, was one of the original Wapping Artists, and has
also exhibited widely in London, Paris and Australia with
several paintings in private and public collections. Her
large scale abstract paintings are inspired by space, sky,
movement, landscape and weather, with scale and
atmosphere giving the feeling of being small against a
sea of colour.
Lorraine was born and bred in London and lived there
until 2021, having worked for many years in Acava
studios, Acton, and previously Space Studios, and in
various parts of London, as well as teaching.
Lorraine is an active member of the Artel group in
Chichester and has a studio in Art Space, Portsmouth.
Other recent exhibitions include the Oxmarket
Contemporary Gallery, Chichester, Hotwalls; Portsmouth
and with Noon Powell Fine Art in London.
ROB LUCKINS
ARTIST TUTOR
Rob is a versatile artist whose practice spans screen printing, photography, toy design, and education. With over a decade and a half of experience teaching printmaking, he has developed a reputation for making the art form accessible, encouraging others to explore it using everyday tools and materials. Rob has led Arts Council-funded projects and worked extensively with young people on creative initiatives. His stop-motion animation projects with primary school students have gained recognition, with finished films screened at Buckingham Palace and Sutton Hoo.
He has delivered lectures at institutions including Winchester University, the V&A, Portsmouth University, Southampton Solent University and The Guernsey Institute, and continues to work as a visiting lecturer across the UK.