Our Tutors & Staff
Our tutors and staff are responsible for a great deal of the success Fine Arts College enjoys. Our tutors are subject specialists, many of whom actively contribute to and engage with the disciplines they teach – whether as writers, researchers or lecturers, musicians, actors or filmmakers, or artists exhibiting their work across the world. Students are taught by a combination of experienced tutors and with more recent graduates to ensure both traditional and innovatory knowledge, ideas and techniques are fully covered.
You can see a complete list of our staff below.
Senior Staff
Principal
- Candida Cave: MA, CFA Oxon
Head
- Emmy Schwieters: BA Leeds
Deputy Head Academic
- Craig Winchcombe: MA Leeds, BA Luton
Deputy Head Pastoral
- Julie Cope: MA, BA Wales, PGCE
Assistant Head of Sixth Form
- Christina Boyle: BA York, PGCE
Directors of Studies
- Akhil Merchant: BA Oxon, PGCE
- Edmund Knox: MPhil London, MA Oxon, MA, PGCE
- Larry Bliss: MSc London, BSc Bath
- Nir Shaki: MA, BA London, PGCE
- Terri Murray: DPhil Oxford Brookes, BA London, PGCE
Art and Design
Fine Art
- Bella Hull: BA London, PGCE
- Chris Kenny: BA London (Head of Department)
- Gabriela Lesniewska: MA Glasgow, BA London
- Suzanne Holtom: MA Slade, BA Cardiff, PGCE
Graphics
- Mike Burles: BA Manchester (Head of Department)
- Maria Kelesidi: MA London, MA London, BA Derby, PGCE
Fashion & Textiles
- Joanna Priya Ghosh: BA London
- Kerri Fairweather: BA Canterbury
Photography
- Bella Hull: BA London, PGCE
- Consuelo Giorgi: DPhil, BA Carrara, Italy, PGCE (Director of Photography Students)
- Dominik Klimowski: MA Hertfordshire, BA Kingston (Head of Department)
Departments
Business
- Steven Kern: PhD Nottingham, MA, BA (Hons)
Citizenship
- Marco Bilyk: BA London, PGCE
Classics
- Lekha Menon: PhD London, MA, BA (Hons), PGCE
- Oonagh Ryan: BA Oxon (Head of Department)
Dance
- Sophie Champion: BA London, PGCE
Drama
- Sophie Winby: BA London, PGCE
Economics
- Mehdi Naqvi: BSc London
English
- Akhil Merchant: BA Oxon, PGCE (Head of Department)
- Daniel Jewison: MPhil Trinity College, BA Leeds, PGCE
- Zara Kaiserimam: MA, BA London, PGCE
Geography
- Loulou O’Leary: MA Liverpool, BA Liverpool, PGCE
History of Art
- Daniel Greaney: MA London, MA London, BA Limerick, PGCE
- Emmy Schwieters: BA Leeds
- Lekha Menon: PhD London, MA, BA (Hons), PGCE (Head of Department)
History
- Sam Brearley: MA, BA London, PGCE (Head of Department)
Mathematics
- Hina Kamal: BSc London, PGCE
- Luke Heaton: DPhil Oxford, MSc Oxford, BA London, BSc Edinburgh, PGCE
Modern Languages
- French: Edmund Knox: MPhil London, MA Oxon, PGCE (Head of Department)
- French: Karine Cooper: BA Open University
- German: Katja Miarka: MA Germany, BA Germany
- Italian: Luigi La Falce: BA Rome, Italy, PTETC
- Spanish: Edmund Knox: MPhil London, MA Oxon, MA, PGCE
Media and Film Studies
- Ben Clements: BA Canterbury, PGCE
- Craig Winchcombe: MA Leeds, BA Luton, PGCE
- Natalie Keen: BA Manchester (Head of Department)
- Terri Murray: DPhil Oxford Brookes, BA London, PGCE
Music and Music Technology
- Christina Boyle: BA York, PGCE (Head of Department)
- Jonathan Healy: MA, BA Leeds, PGCE
Philosophy
- Nir Shaki: MA, BA London, PGCE (Head of Department)
Politics
- Marco Bilyk: BA London, PGCE
Psychology
- Paula Tulliver: BSc London
Religious Studies
- Nir Shaki: MA, BA London, PGCE (Head of Department)
Science
- Adam Rodaway: PhD London, BA Cambridge
- Daniel Bland: MSc London, BSc London, PGCE
- Larry Bliss: MSc London, BSc Bath
Sociology
- Emma Jones: MSc Sussex, BA Sussex, PGCE (Head of Department)
EPQ Coordinator
- Zara Kaiserimam: MA, BA London
School Productions
- Bryony Reiss: MA Canada, BA Sussex
SEN Tutors
- Bryony Reiss: MA Canada, BA Sussex
- Matthew Peters: MA, BA Falmouth
SEN Co-Ordinator
- Jennifer Lok: MA Exeter, BA Italy, PDip Warwick, CSML Harvard, PGCE
Year 9 Form Tutor
- Loulou O’Leary: MA Liverpool, BA Liverpool, PGCE
Year 10 Form Tutor
- Daniel Blant: MSc London, BSc London, PGCE
Year 11 Form Tutor
- Karine Cooper: BA Open University
Administration, Careers and Safeguarding
Financial Controller
- Rana Iftikhar: BSc Plymouth
- Gabriela Ince: BSc London (Accounts Assistant)
Health and Safety and Premises Manager
- Sarmad Ismail: BSc Bristol, IOSH
Caretaker
- Fitzroy Hamilton
Director of Compliance
- Leanne Slavin: BA London
Director of Admissions
- Meena Sharma: HND, London
Director of Careers Guidance
- Margaret Park: BA Sussex, PGCE
Director of Welfare
- Oonagh Ryan: BA Oxon
PA to Principal/Head, Marketing Administrator and Receptionist
- Finley Hart: Level 3 Apprenticeship
Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Julie Cope: MA, BA Wales, PGCE
Assistant Designated Safeguarding Leads
- Oonagh Ryan: BA Oxon
- Sigrid Assan: DI HAS Feldkirchen, Austria
- Matthew Peters: MA, BA Falmouth
Exams Officer
- John Hicks: GCE London
Marketing
- Maria Kelesidi: MA London, MA London, BA Derby, PGCE
Sustainability Co-ordinator
- Loulou O’Leary: MA Liverpool, BA Liverpool, PGCE
Administrators
- Leanne Slavin: BA London
- Meena Sharma: HND, London (Senior Administrator)
- Sigrid Assan: DI HAS Feldkirchen, Austria
- Finley Hart: Level 3 Apprenticeship
IT Manager & Study Area Supervisor
- James Theocharous: BA London
