Formerly a primary school teacher and later a Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture and director of M.A’s in the Arts and Education and Visual Culture and Fine Art, Bryan was inspired by his art teacher Harvey Sklair at Beckenham and Penge Grammar School and subsequently studied at Chelsea School of Art, Canterbury Christ Church University, Sussex University and Camberwell School of Art. He is published in relation to Children’s Drawings, Art Education and Film and Animation. He has presented academic papers, exhibited and curated widely and has recently curated and produced creative work for exhibitions linking Art and Archaeology. Currently he is a full-time artist and Canterbury Archaeological Trust Artist in Residence.
Presentation: Digging for Treasures – Archaeology Art, Legacy and Positivity
A Reflection on a Dig and on Digging In for the Arts.
Workshop: Legacy is NOW
Legacy inevitably tends to bring together and focus ideas of what has been and is and turn them towards what might yet be. In contrast, Kent Arts Conference 2024’s events, workshops, papers, presentations and performances, its interactions and creative artefacts and its visions and dreams, like the practices of the arts themselves, will take form in the immediacy and the NOW of creative interactions.
The workshop seeks to bring this immediacy and diversity of experience together as a collective energy and resource. The question is: What RIGHT NOW is our message to those who will influence the Legacy of the Arts in our futures?
Roundtable: Creativity, Health and Community
This roundtable will look at some of the issues and challenges facing our communities for which creativity and the arts might provide interventions.