A suite of flexible Short Courses
of 6 – 8 weeks from April 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).

Arnold Borgerth is a photographer and artist originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He moved to Portugal in 1990 and later based himself in London, before settling in Margate where he is currently a studio-holder and a lecturer.

A self-taught practitioner since 1980, Arnold works simultaneously across three distinct areas of the photographic field. He combines an established career as a commercial photographer for the arts and design sectors with his role as Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he has taught photography since 1996.

As a fine artist, he has exhibited widely in group and solo shows across South America—specifically Brazil and Argentina—and the UK. His work has also been published in various catalogues, books, and magazines, spanning architecture, fine arts, and design.

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. 

Ian's work spans painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and artists books. He completed his MA in painting at Chelsea School of Art after studying to BA at Newcastle Polytechnic. Originally from Kent, he returned to the coast to set up a studio and work as a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the School of Further Education at University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury. Ian has continued to show work throughout his career whilst participating in a variety of research projects that have continued to shape his practice.