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LIBBY CURTIS Biographical Statement Libby Curtis trained as a fine metal jeweller at West Surrey College of Art & Design and post-graduate education at Leicester Polytechnic. She went on to teach within the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors within education, and has latterly held teaching, research, consultancy and management roles within higher education. She has worked collaboratively on strategic educational projects with University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, The University of the Highlands Millenium Institute, and Glasgow School of Art. Currently she is working with Scottish Enterprise and NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) on ‘Starter for 6’ collaborating on projects with creative and entrepreneurial themes. Libby has continued to progress her practice based jewellery work and launched a new approach to the making her jewellery through digital technologies – www.libbycurtis.co.uk. This range was sold through the UK and represented her research starting point for addressing sustainable and entrepreneurial practice for the designer-maker. Libby is currently Associate Head of School, Gray’s School of Art. The redefinition of my working process as a jeweller was led first and foremost by my interest in using new technology to create alternative working methods for the designer-maker. This was an experiment in creating a sustainable approach to my jewellery practice. This exercise directed me toward the question of ‘how do others re-define their practice when expected or traditional methods of making become unsustainable either economically or creatively?’ My investigation of new technologies (CAD/CAM) for more sustainable yet creative designer-maker working methods resulted in a visual and interactive digital learning resource for craft practitioners (TACTiCS, ESF funded). Building on the TACTICS project I co-produced an on-line learning resource for the art and design graduate, that incorporates critical, creative and entrepreneurial thinking into practice based projects (www.insightoutlearning.org.uk) Recently this has been framed within a European context, specifically in relation to new curriculum developments in Latvia. Key to my work as an educator is about learning how others think and address problems creatively within craft, design, business, and education. My work as a researcher is critically looking at these in order to create new ways of bringing that knowledge to an engaged learning community.My RAE research outputs contribute to two of the School's thematics - Art and Design Pedagogy and Challenging Making. |
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