Course Tutors

Ania Dabrowska

Photography Tutor, European Fine Art Masters

Ania is an award-winning artist working in photography, moving image, installation, text and sound. She is interested in the impact that different registers of time, space and cultural identities might have on each other when configured together in new works, in particular the creative and political potency of archives in a contemporary cultural context. Her awards include the Wellcome Trust People Award 2008-11, the National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Award in 2007 and Observer Hodge Photographic Award in 2003. She has been a Lecturer in Photography at London Metropolitan University and the University of Portsmouth, a Lecturer in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford and a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Dr Jason Dee

Course Leader, The Still & Moving Image

Jason is a Kent-based artist and academic whose work focuses on the relationship between still and moving imagery within the context of the shift from analogue to digital media. He has undertaken residencies and presented papers both nationally and internationally and has been exhibited at FOMU, Antwerp; Talbot Rice, Edinburgh; Pompidou Centre, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin and more. His installation work has been shown at Format Festival, Derby; Rencontres Internationales, Paris; Transmediale, Berlin; Impakt, Utrecht; IFFR, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Berwick Film Festival. He has taught at Glasgow School of Art, Newcastle University and University of the Creative Arts Rochester, where he was course leader for MA Photography and MA Fashion Photography.

Sława Harasymowicz

Making Digital Tutor, European Fine Art Masters

Sława is an artist currently based in Ramsgate on the East Kent coast. Her practice largely explores the relationship between archive, autobiography, and fiction. After graduating from The Royal College of Art in London she produced a body of work responding to Sigmund Freud’s Wolf Man through a graphic novel and an exhibition, and her interest in narrative as both book and more open practice is on-going. She works primarily with drawing, moving image, installation, different photographic and print mediums. Sława has held exhibitions at The National Poetry Library Southbank Centre, London; Ethnographic Museum of Kraków, Poland; The Freud Museum, London and others. She is in the process of completing a PhD at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (Fine Art).

Dr Edward Kelly Tutor, Sound Arts

Edward has a BSc in Electronic Music with Electronics from the University of Hertfordshire and a PhD in Composition from the University of East Anglia. He has taught BA Digital Media Design at the London College of Communication for 7 years, and MA Fine Art (Digital) at Camberwell College of Arts for eleven years.

He is a contributor to the Pure Data computer music system, and an expert in recording and editing audio and music. His work also encompasses creative coding and physical computing for interactive graphics, video and sound. He developed the audio engine for the Ninja Jamm app for Ninja Tune records. His research has been published at a number of international conferences and he has played concerts worldwide.

Rachel Kirk Tutor, Visual Communication

Rachel is a Graphic Designer, Communications Consultant and Educator. She holds an MA in Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, UAL, where she now teaches Critical and Contextual Studies alongside other design modules. Rachel has a broad design and communications skillset and over fifteen years of experience working primarily with not-for-profit organisations and startups focusing on sustainability and socially-engaged practice.

Dr Benjin Pollock Tutor, Sound Arts

Benjin is a multi-instrumentalist, academic, artist and storyteller. He achieved his PhD in Sociology at the University of Kent in 2021, and has taught at both Kent and the University of Brighton before joining TMS. Benjin’s practice mixes free improvisation and structured composition, and utilises field recordings, instrumental work (experimental, classical and folk) and poetry to explore sociological, historical and political themes. He has toured extensively with a number of experimental ensembles over the last fifteen years and his solo work has been featured on BBC Radio 6, BBC Radio 3 and at the TATE and Serpentine Galleries. In 2022, Benjin was appointed as principal musician at the Globe Theatre for Headlong’s production of Henry V and his latest album ‘Music for Cello and Nyckelharpa’ was selected for Bandcamp’s ‘New and Notable’ playlist.

Dr Paul Rennie Tutor, Visual Communication

Paul is a collector and curator of art and design, with over twenty years of experience in teaching, including at Central Saint Martins, London. He is the author of several books about poster history and design, including Tom Eckersley (2021). Paul lives in Folkestone, Kent, and is a great enthusiast of the therapeutic and transcendent potential of art and the seaside.

Edward Thompson

Tutor, The Still & Moving Image

Edward is a British documentary photographer whose photographic work has covered environmental issues, socio-political movements, subcultures, everyday life and the consequences of war. His documentary photo-essays have been published in National Geographic Magazine, Newsweek Japan, Greenpeace Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, BBC, CNN and The Sunday Times Magazine. His work has been exhibited at Christie’s, Somerset House and Four Corners Gallery, London and shown as part of international photography festivals.

Rebecca Truscott-Elves

Memoire and Sculpture Tutor, European Fine Art Masters

Rebecca is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kent. In 2016, she graduated from the Royal College of Art, where she received the Gordon Peter Pickard Award to make drawings in Montréal. She is currently completing a fully funded practicebased PhD at Canterbury Christ Church University, where she was awarded a 2021 British Council Venice Research Fellowship. Recent exhibitions include the solo show The House Was Like Her at Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury (2022), Supple Octopus with Coral Brookes at The Tub, Hackney (2022), What I See I’ll Never Tell at Wilder Gallery, London (2021), The Studio at 4am at Hastings Contemporary (2020), and duo show Plus One with Catherine Anyango Grünewald at Limbo Arts, Margate (2019).

Melissa Ryke

Professor of English at Esä

Melissa is an Australian artist. A graduate of the Schools of Fine Arts in Australia and France and of the European Post-Graduate Diploma in Art and Sound (EPAS) at the KASK in Ghent (2020). Her creative research focuses on a playful and poetic investigation of everyday life and on experimentation with audiovisual installations. Using these media, she approaches the notion of bodily experience from a phenomenological angle. Her most recent projects explore the notion of ‘embodied listening’; the listening, recording and broadcasting of sound as a haptic and sensory experience.

Her work has been presented and exhibited at Ars Electronica at Kepler’s Garden, Linz, Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille, Screen Space and Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Metro Arts and Boxcopy, Brisbane and in the journal Runway Australian Experimental Art.