Mavernie Cunningham
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
1984 – 1987 - Canterbury College of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking
1987 – 1989 - Royal College of Art - MA Illustration
1996 - 1998 - Canterbury Christchurch University - Certificate of Education, Post-compulsory
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2015 - 2016 - Higher Education Academy - Senior Fellowship(SFHEA)
EMPLOYMENT
1989 - 1994 – KIAD, Canterbury – Sessional lecturer, BA (Hons) Printmaking
1993 – 1995 - Winchester School of Art – Sessional lecturer, BA (Hons) Printmaking
1996 – 2012 - South Kent College – Full time Programme Manager, Creative Arts + Course Leader, BA (Hons) Fine Art
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2012 – 2014 - West Kent & Ashford College - Full time Business Development and Quality Manager for Higher Education.
2014 – 2017 - Canterbury College – Part time Lecturer, Higher Education - Fine Art Theory, Photography and Multimedia
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2017 - present - University of Kent, Associate Lecturer, BA (Hons) Event and Experience Design
Other sessional teaching:
2010 - 2011 - University of Kent - Module Convener, year 1, 2 and 3 BA(Hons) Fine Art
2014 - 2016 – University of Kent - Associate lecturer, BA(Hons) Fine Art
2010 – 2011 – UCA Maidstone – Sessional lecturer, FD Graphic Design and Communication
2010 – present – UCA Rochester - Dissertation supervision, sessional lecturer and dissertation assessor, various BA(Hons)Programmes; and UCA Canterbury - Sessional Lecturer, BA (Hons)Illustration and Animation
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (RECENT)
2013 – Plastic Propaganda - Group Show - Chelsea Town Hall, London
2013 – Plastic Propaganda - Group Show - Sevenoaks Library
2013 – ‘Assemblage’ - Horsebridge Gallery – Whitstable
2013 – ‘Critical Narratives’ – Art Fair, New Delhi – India
2014 – Plastic Propaganda – Group Show - ‘Critical Image’ – World Trade Centre, Amsterdam and Vousetesici Gallery, Amsterdam
2014 – ‘Assemblage 2’ - Horsebridge Gallery – Whitstable
2015 – Performance with Miserichords, interacting with Carlos Amorales’ ‘We Will See How Everything Reverberates’ The Turner Contemporary, Margate
2016 – ‘Song of Songs’- Sea Cadet Hall, Whitstable Biennale Satellite – Film and live spoken word performance – Whitstable (collaboration with Chris Hunt)
2017 – ‘Oscillate’ festival, performance with Miserichords, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2017 - Art and Sound Symposium – installation, Leicester De Montfort University (collaboration with Chris Hunt)
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
2012 – two chapter sections in ‘50 Key Texts in Art History’ (ed. Pooke and Newell, Routledge). Chapters on Frantz Fanon’s ‘Black Skin White Masks’ (1952) and Georges Didi-Huberman’s ‘Confronting Images: Questioning the End of a Certain Art History’ (1990) ISBN 100415497701.
2012 – ‘Critical Perspectives’ entry, New Habitat Arts Centre, New Delhi India, ISBN: 978-0-9559230-7-4
2013 – ‘Critical Image’ entry -Vousetesici Gallery – Amsterdam, ISBN: 978-0-9559230-6-7
2017 – forthcoming - proceedings for ‘Art and Sound’ symposium, Leicester De Montfort University