Rita Gupta
Rita is a Design and Technology trained teacher with more than 20 years experience of working in the education sector both abroad and in the UK. Ritas interests include exploring the potential of re-using materials that would otherwise be discarded and self exploration through creativity.
Lucho Corrales
Lucho is committed to community development and particularly addresses the needs of refugees and asylum seekers. He is a former science and maths teacher with years of experience developing projects in the UK, his native Chile and Australia.
Lisa Cumberland
Lisa is a fine arts graduate with several years of experience delivering community arts projects. She particularly enjoys working with families and young children.
Thomas Jessop
Thomas is a young peoples representive. As a medical student in his fourth year he is well placed to offer advice and support relating to well being and healthy living projects.
Charlotte Chapman
Charlotte has 8 years teaching experience in design and crafts. She has a PGCE and has implemented a number of projects including a sustainable design project for young people at risk of social exclusion. She has taught in London, Bristol and Auckland, NZ where she managed the design department at Auckland Girls Grammar School. She has a keen interest in the environment which is integral in her approach to her design and craft teaching.
Ayo Kolawole
Ayo is a fine arts graduate who trained at Bower Ashton, UWE. She has been instrumental in assisting workshop facilitators, preparing samples and prototypes. Ayo’s goal is to obtain more work within the creative industries as an artist. She is responsible for putting on a number of exhibitions of her work in and around Bristol.
Melissa Aki Hashimoto Worthington
Melissa Aki graduated from the University of Cumbria with first class honours in Editorial Photography before completing a Post Graduate Certificate in Education at Wigan and Leigh College with a combined partial Masters degree in Education.
Her interests include art psychotherapy and catharsis through the use of visual medium and critical writing/ deconstruction. Her personal photography revolves around the themes of love, loss and memory.
Russell Heywood
Russell Artivists’ creative writing tutor has many years experience, facilitating groups for students aged from five to eighty five. He has a BA in Philosophy from Warwick University and an MA in Creative Writing and Personal Development from Sussex University.
