Name

 Dr. Colin Gale

 

 

Current Position

Head of the School of Fashion & Textiles
&
Course Director
MA Textiles / MA Fashion /  MA Surface Design
Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
University of Central England
 

 

 

Professional Qualifications

BA Hons Fine Art                          Manchester Polytechnic
Higher Diploma in Fine Art         Slade School, UCL
PhD                                                 University of Central England

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Experience

 Birmingham Institute of Art & Design                                          1983 -           
 University of Central England     

Senior Lecturer in Computer Aided Design

Course Tutor,  MA Interior Design and Information Technology

Head of IT,  Department of Fashion, Textiles & Three Dimensional Design

 Department of Media and Communications                             1980 - 1995  
 Goldsmiths College,  University of London                 

Lecturer in Computer Aided Communication (0.5 Lecturer)

Head of Postgraduate Practice (MA Television Documentary, MA Television Drama, MA Radio, MA Journalism, MA Image and Communication)

Head of Electronic Graphics and Animation

Course Director MA Image and Communication

Year and Course Tutor BA Anthropology and Communications

Year Tutor BA Communications and Sociology  

Recognised Teacher, University of London – Fine Art  - 1990  

Recognised Teacher, University of London – Sociology  - 1991

  Visiting Tutor

MA Textiles, UL Goldsmiths College  - 1991

Fashion & Textiles (Research), Royal College of Art  - 1996

Fine Art (Research), University of Wolverhampton  - 1996

MA Image & Communication Ltd, UL Goldsmiths College  - 1996-date

 Examinerships  

External Examiner, BTEC HND Business and Finance, Ealing  - 1988  

Examiner – Yanta HT Lam, M Phil, Bamboo and Contemporary Product Design in China – application and design innovation in a traditional Asian material  - 1998

External Examiner, MA Fashion, Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan  - 1999

External Examiner, MA Image & Communication, Goldsmiths College, University of London  - 2000 

Examiner, MA Jewellery, Silversmithing & Related Products, UCE - 2000 

External Examiner, BA Printed Textiles, Loughborough University  - 2001

External Examiner, Diploma in Interior Design, LASALLE.SIA, Singapore - 2001

Examiner – Vandyk Lewis, PhD, Fashion Preferences of the African Diaspora  - 2001

Examiner – Hsin-tien Liao, PhD, Colonialism, post-colonialism and local identity in colonial Taiwanese landscape paintings (1908 - 1945)  - 2002

 

 

 

   
   

Other Experience

Investigative computer animation concerning early stages in the development of the blood immune system.  Produced in collaboration with the haematology departments of St James and St Georges Hospitals, London  -  1983

Software development dealing with surface patterning, produced in collaboration with Seri+ a Canadian textiles and interior furnishing company.   Resultant artwork won first prize in the Alcan Design Metiers d,Art for Industrial innovation - 1986

Services to Greenspring Training, Birmingham - 1987

Consultant to Astley Systems.   Funding and IT policies in the HE art and design sector - 1989

Chair Curatorial Committee, Cork St, Exhibition ex Postgraduate Fashion and Textile designers from Birmingham, Manchester and Winchester, Cork St., London - 1995

Chair Curatorial Committee, Cork St, Exhibition ex Postgraduate Fashion and Textile designers from Birmingham, Manchester and Winchester, Cork St, London - 1996

Editorial Board, Design Transformation Group - 1997

 

   
   
   

Publications / Exhibitions / Conferences

Exhibited computer drawings in EXP at Polytechnic of Central London - 1979

Exhibited drawings and computer works, Bartlett Foyer, UCL - 1980

Performance pieces with Mona Hatoum and Paul Jackson at the London Film Makers Collective - 1980

Computer animations shown at BFI and abroad - 1981

Public lecture at Goldsmiths College, Computers in Art and Design  - 1981

Exhibition of computer graphics, New River Project, London - 1986

Systems analysis and database specification for Textiles Resource, Department of Fashion and Textiles, UCE  - 1990

Computer animated title sequence and ident for Community Joblink East (information video) - 1991

Paper ‘Users, Philosophy and CAAD’, given at joint DRS/BIAD conference Information Technology and Design : New Perspectives  -  1993

Solo exhibition of computer prints, the Bond Gallery, Birmingham  - 1994

Selected exhibitor, Birmingham Art Trust thematic show – Can you tell what it is yet?., Bond Gallery, Birmingham  - 1995

Awarded PhD, title Modelling Creative Practice : the Circumstances and Constituents of Creative Thought and Action with special reference to the use of Computers in Art and Design  -  1995

Selected exhibitor, Arcade, first international exhibition of computer aided prints, Brighton, Book, CD and touring  - 1995

Invited paper ‘Changes in Cultural Production’ given at the conference Embodied Knowledge and Virtual Space, Goldsmiths College  - 1995

Talk ‘Personal Reflections on Methodology’ given at a Higher Degrees Research Seminar at UCE.

Selected Exhibitor, Digital Art 95, Art Technology and British Computer Arts Association second annual international open exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.

Contributor Research Training Initiative.   Guidebooks for MPhil/PhD study in Art and Design.  UCE publication.

Selected exhibitor, Laing 25th Landscape & Seascape Competition, regional and national finalist.   Birmingham and London  - 1997

Selected exhibitor, Reading the Small Print, regional Open, Leicester City Art Gallery and touring.

Selected exhibitor, Printmakers Council National Open, Artrium Gallery London.

Selected exhibitor, Laing 26th Landscape & Seascape Competition, regional finalist.   Birmingham  - 1998

Selected exhibitor, Contemporary British Watercolours, Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery, Eastleigh  - 1998

Selected exhibitor, Laing 27th Landscape & Seascape Competition, national finalist.  London  - 1999

Group Show. Bend in the River Gallery, Gainsborough  - 1999

Solo Exhibition. Bend in the River Gallery, Gainsborough  - 2000  

Invited guest exhibitor, joint show with Mr Suzlee Ibrahim, Galeri Seni, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - March 2001

Solo Exhibition with accompanying lecture. Galeri Seni, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - June 2001

The speaker, The Fashion Future International Conference, sponsored by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education and The Taiwanese Textile Federation. Hosted by the Oriental Institute of Technology. Lecture and presentation ‘Design Dillemas: The Impact of Industry, Culture and Technology on Fashion’ delivered at The Oriental Institute of Technology, Fu-Jen Catholic University and Shi-Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan - September 2001

Co-author with Ms Jasbir Kaur of The Textile Book  published by Berg - April 2002

Co-author with Ms Jasbir Kaur of Fashion and Textiles: An Overview  to be published by Berg - in 2004

 

   
   

Research Supervision

  David Prytherch                                                                                                PhD 

The Application of the Theory and Practice of Computing to Sculpture, with particular reference to tactile qualities  

 

 Jasbir Kaur                                                    Research Assistant, IEFT Project

Asian Emigrant communities and their patterns of Fashion and Textile consumption

 

 

 Cris de Groot                                                                                                    PhD

Transforming the Designer’s Experience of the Object

 

 

 Rafael Lacruz-Rengel                                                                                     PhD 

A Theory of Reference for Industrial Design : The Product Semantics of portable box-shaped electrical appliances.

 

 

 Namfon Laistrooglai                                                                                       PhD 

Thai Ikat: Design and Development for Contemporary Use.

 

 

 Rebecca Russell-Turner                                                                               PhD 

The British Fashion Poster in the 1970's and 80's.