Our Tutors & Staff
Our tutors and staff are responsible for a great deal of the success Fine Arts College enjoys. Our tutors are subject specialists, many of whom actively contribute to and engage with the disciplines they teach – whether as writers, researchers or lecturers, musicians, actors or filmmakers, or artists exhibiting their work across the world. Students are taught by a combination of experienced tutors and with more recent graduates to ensure both traditional and innovatory knowledge, ideas and techniques are fully covered.
You can see a complete list of our staff below.
Senior Staff
Principal
- Candida Cave: MA, CFA Oxon
Head
- Emmy Schwieters: BA Leeds
Deputy Head Academic
- Craig Winchcombe: MA Leeds, BA Luton
Deputy Head Pastoral
- Julie Cope: MA, BA Wales, PGCE
Directors of Studies
- Akhil Merchant: BA Oxon, PGCE
- Edmund Knox: MPhil London, MA Oxon, MA, PGCE
- Karen Staples: MA London, PGCE
- Larry Bliss: MSc London, BSc Bath
- Nir Shaki: MA, BA London, PGCE
- Terri Murray: DPhil Oxford Brookes, BA London, PGCE
Head of Art Administration
- Karen Staples (Textiles): MA London, PGCE
Art and Design
Fine Art
- Bella Hull: BA London, PGCE
- Chris Kenny: BA London (Head of Department)
- Gabriela Lesniewska: MA Glasgow, BA London
- Suzanne Holtom: MA Slade, BA Cardiff, PGCE
- Marni Skelton: BA London
Graphics
- Mike Burles: BA Manchester (Head of Department)
- Maria Kelesidi: MA London, BA Derby, PGCE
Fashion & Textiles
- Joanna Priya Ghosh: BA London
- Karen Staples (Textiles): MA London, PGCE (Head of Department)
- Aimee Fender (Assistant)
Photography
- Bella Hull: BA London, PGCE
- Consuelo Giorgi: DPhil, BA Carrara, Italy, PGCE (Director of Photography Students)
- Dominik Klimowski: MA Hertfordshire, BA Kingston (Head of Department)
- Marni Skelton: BA London
Departments
Business
- Steven Kern: PhD Nottingham, MA, BA (Hons)
Citizenship
- Marco Bilyk: BA London, PGCE
Classics
- Lekha Menon: PhD London, MA, BA (Hons), PGCE
- Oonagh Ryan: BA Oxon (Head of Department)
Dance
- Sophie Champion: BA London, PGCE
Drama
- Alexa Judd: BA Northampton, PGCE
- Sophie Winby: BA London, PGCE
Economics
- Mehdi Naqvi: BSc London
English
- Akhil Merchant: BA Oxon, PGCE (Head of Department)
- Daniel Jewison: MPhil Trinity College, BA Leeds, PGCE
- Zara Kaiserimam: MA, BA London
Geography
- Loulou O’Leary: MA Liverpool, BA Liverpool, PGCE
History of Art
- Daniel Greaney: MA London, MA London, BA Limerick, PGCE
- Emmy Schwieters: BA Leeds (Head of Department)
- Lekha Menon: PhD London, MA, BA (Hons), PGCE
History
- Sam Brearley: MA, BA London, PGCE (Head of Department)
Mathematics
- Hina Kamal: BSc London, PGCE
- Joe Eleini: BSc London, PGCE
Modern Languages
- French: Edmund Knox: MPhil London, MA Oxon, PGCE (Head of Department)
- French: Karine Cooper: BA Open University
- German: Katja Miarka: MA Germany, BA Germany
- Italian: Luigi La Falce: BA Rome, Italy, PTETC
- Spanish: Maria Gracia Chincilla Aragon: BA London, PGCE
- Spanish: Edmund Knox: MPhil London, MA Oxon, MA, PGCE
Media and Film Studies
- Ben Clements: BA Canterbury, PGCE
- Craig Winchcombe: MA Leeds, BA Luton, PGCE
- Natalie Keen: BA Manchester (Head of Department)
- Terri Murray: DPhil Oxford Brookes, BA London, PGCE
Music and Music Technology
- Christina Boyle: BA York, PGCE
- Jonathan Healy: MA, BA Leeds, PGCE
Philosophy
- Nir Shaki: MA, BA London, PGCE (Head of Department)
Politics
- Marco Bilyk: BA London, PGCE
Psychology
- Paula Tulliver: BSc London
Religious Studies
- Boudicca Bell: MA, BA London
- Nir Shaki: MA, BA London, PGCE (Head of Department)
Science
- Adam Rodaway: PhD London, BA Cambridge
- Daniel Bland: MSc London, BSc London, PGCE
- Larry Bliss: MSc London, BSc Bath
Sociology
- Emma Jones: MSc Sussex, BA Sussex, PGCE (Head of Department)
Sports
- Daniel Bland: MSc London, BSc London, PGCE
EPQ Coordinator
- Zara Kaiserimam: MA, BA London
SEN Tutor
- Bryony Reiss: MA Canada, BA Sussex
- Lindsey Roberts: MA Italy, BA America
- Matthew Peters: MA, BA Falmouth
SEN Co-Ordinator
- Jennifer Lok: MA Exeter, BA Italy, PDip Warwick, CSML Harvard, PGCE
Year 9 Form Tutor
- Alexa Judd: BA Northampton, PGCE
Year 10 Form Tutor
- Christina Boyle: BA York, PGCE
Year 11 Form Tutor
- Karine Cooper: BA Open University
Administration, Careers and Safeguarding
Financial Controller
- Rana Iftikhar: BSc Plymouth
- Gabriela Ince: BSc London (Accounts Assistant)
Health and Safety and Premises Manager
- Sarmad Ismail: BSc Bristol, IOSH
Director of Compliance
- Leanne Slavin: BA London
Director of Admissions
- Meena Sharma: HND, London
Director of Careers Guidance
- Margaret Park: BA Sussex, PGCE
Director of Welfare
- Oonagh Ryan: BA Oxon
PA to Principal and Admin Support
- Violet Comrie: BSc, BA South Africa
Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Julie Cope: MA, BA Wales, PGCE
Assistant Designated Safeguarding Leads
- Oonagh Ryan: BA Oxon
- Sigrid Assan: DI HAS Feldkirchen, Austria
Exams Officer
- John Hicks: GCE London
Marketing
- Maria Kelesidi: MA London, BA Derby, PGCE
Administrators
- Leanne Slavin: BA London
- Meena Sharma: HND, London (Senior Administrator)
- Sigrid Assan: DI HAS Feldkirchen, Austria
- Violet Comrie: BSc, BA South Africa
IT Support
- James Theocharous: BA London
