who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Keywords teacher education, art
education, reflective practice,
experience of art
Stella Tan
United Kingdom
Keywords graphic design practice,
design process, design activities,
activity theory
Curtis Tappenden
University for the Creative Arts,
Design Department of The Mail on
Sunday newspaper, New Dover Road,
Cantebury, CT1 3AN, United
Kingdom
Keywords discussion, participatory,
experiment, drawing, observation
(2004), and Art Appreciation, Criticism, and Education (2001). Dr
Tam’s paper entitled ‘Making Meaningful Personal Connections: A
phenomenological study of non-art specialist museum visitors’
experience of paintings’ appeared in the Canadian Review of Art
Education (2006).
› Engaging in reflective practices: investigating pupils' experiences of art from
a phenomenological perspective, International Journal of Education through
Art, 6.2, 181-195.
Stella Tan is a practicing freelance visual communication designer. She
is currently working as a researcher on evaluating learning spaces in
higher education institutions, and teaches part-time to undergraduate
design students. Her research interests are in design practice, designer
expertise, user centred experience, and applied ethnography.
› Graphic designers' activities during the conceptual design phase of clientinitiated
projects Report of research in progress, reflection on the research
process, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 8.1, 85-92.
Curtis Tappenden is an author/illustrator, painter, teacher, performance
artist and poet who also works in-house for the Design Department of
The Mail on Sunday newspaper, London. He has written eighteen
books on art and design practice and has poems published in
anthologies. He also writes for the popular art press and has more
recently written for the Travel section of The Mail on Sunday. Curtis
lectures part-time in the Further Education Department, and facilitates
the Creative Writing Group as part of this Learning and Teaching
research project at the University for the Creative Arts, Kent and
Surrey. He lives with his wife and two children in Brighton on the
south coast of England.
› Writing experiments with a lateral leaning, Journal of Writing in Creative
Practice, 3.3, 211-225.
› Out of our minds: Exploring attitudes to creative writing relating to art and
design practice and personal identity, Journal of Writing in Creative
Practice, 3.3, 257-283.