Launching a suite of flexible Short Courses
of 6 –10 weeks and intensive Artist Mentorship opportunities starting January 2026. 

Benjamin Jenner is an artist and practice-based researcher whose creative process is rooted in participation and dialogic exchange as a platform for the generation of collaborative forms of representation. They are particularly interested in devising techniques for allying ulterior forms of sensory perception with the embodied imagination in order to exceed empirical methods of observation and normative forms of knowledge production. 

Through sound and spatial media, Amias Hanley explores auditory-led questions that engage the scholarship of queer ecologies and transgender studies. Central to their practice is the question of how listening processes can give rise to the experience of ecological awareness and how auditory sensations produce senses of being, place, and relationality. These inquiries are often site-responsive, generating speculative encounters that aim to offer sonic propositions for engaging composite forms and conditions.

Oscar is a British artist and animator currently based in Margate. He graduated from The Royal College of Art in 2016 with a Master’s in Animation and has since directed several award-winning short films and music video projects.

He currently works as Animation Director for the New York production company “A Closer Look Inc” and South London’s “Packed Lunch Studios”. His latest short animated film, “Small Hours”, will release this year (2025).

Ruth Higginbotham is a London-based Art Director, Stylist and Creative Consultant with over 19 years’ experience working across fashion, film, advertising, editorial and branding. Collaborating closely with photographers, brands and creative teams, she develops distinctive visual identities and campaign concepts that feel current, intentional and lasting.

Her extensive portfolio includes projects and collaborations with clients such as COS, Nike and i-D. She has worked alongside notable photographers and directors including Lola & Pani, Rich Stapleton and Sarah Blais, while her celebrity and music credits feature talent such as Saoirse Ronan, Haim and Sophie Turner.

Lisa is an oil painter whose subject is predominantly but not exclusively landscape. Informed by her abiding interest in colour and abstraction the paintings are often lively and vigorous.
When painting, she prefers to work from drawings and memory.  Making the work has developed into a meditative process where she often taps into deep unconscious feelings and memories which may reveal themselves in the work.  The titles of the paintings can reflect music, poetry or prose that has been an influence on the making of the work.  The painting is finished when Lisa feels there is nothing more to say.

Dominic Rose is an artist living in Margate. Working across a variety of media including photography, sculpture and found materials, his work explores the role of the artist and artwork in the era of hyper-production, as well as ideas around materials and waste.  A dual national and bilingual in French, Dominic teaches aspects of 20th century French art history and culture, with students working with print and French language. The course includes Situationism, Collapsologie and protest with work being produced in screenprint and letterpress.
Dominic is himself a graduate of the European Fine Art Masters programme at The Margate School.

Roy Eastland is an artist and drawing teacher whose work explores themes of human presence, memory and trace. A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art (1996), he is the winner of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Prize and the SGFA Small Works Award.

He has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows, including the BP Portrait Award, Jerwood Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize and Turner Contemporary. His professional practice includes teaching engagements at the V&A and UCA Rochester, with work held in public collections such as The Young Gallery Salisbury and Edinburgh College of Art.

Sława Harasymowicz is an artist currently based on the East Kent coast. Her practice is largely narrative-driven and she works with drawing, moving image, different photographic and print techniques, installation, writing and sound.
 
After graduating from The Royal College of Art in London she produced a body of work responding to Sigmund Freud’s ‘Wolf Man’ including a book and exhibition. She has exhibited at The National Poetry Library Southbank Centre, London, the Ethnographic Museum of Kraków, Poland, and The Freud Museum, London. In progress is a site-specific project in Germany.
She is currently completing a practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Harasymowicz has lectured at the Royal College of Art, UCA, and other universities in London and beyond. 

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