Dr. Daniel Felstead is the course leader of BA (Hons) Critical Practice in Fashion Media, and co-coordinator of the Fashion Media and Communication Research Hub. As an experiential designer and strategist with over 20 years of industry experience, Daniel's practice encompasses a wide range of contemporary formats and media—from exhibitions, installations, and live works, to digital interfaces, platforms, wearables as well as writing. Working independently and collectively he has exhibited internationally and produced works for the BBC, BFI, British Museum, Google, Nike, Nokia, Serpentine Galleries, Siemens, Tate and V&A Museum. He has contributed numerous essays for publications including Art Selector, British Computer Society, Literary Platform, Revolver Publishing, Skiro Editore, The Swedish Dance History, and Tate Publishing. As well as holding a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication (Ravensbourne College), Daniel holds a Ph.D., which he carried out at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (University of London). In his thesis, What Can We Do With These Associations? Production, Organisation and Materiality in the Work of Tino SehgalDaniel examined the artistic practice of Tino Sehgal in relation to the socio-political conditions of neoliberalism.
Sophie Barr is a lecturer teaching across the Fashion Communication Programme at LCF. She is a practising artist and researcher who uses photography, drawing, print, video, audio, web and installation to explore the aesthetics of the globalised city, identity in the digital age and the relationships between material and digital cultures. She regularly exhibits her work in London and beyond. Sophie holds a master’s in Fine Art with Learning and Teaching in HE as well as a master’s in Cultural and Critical Studies and is a fellow of the HEA.
Alice Hattrick is a writer and Associate Lecturer at LCF on BA (Hons) Critical Practice in Fashion Media. Their non-fiction book on illness, intimacy and mother-daughter relationships, titled ILL FEELINGS, will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in August 2021. Alice’s recent work has been included in Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art: HEALTH (edited by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, 2020) and Mine Searching Yours (Forma, 2020). Alice's essays, interviews and criticism have been published by The White Review, Frieze, Art Review and Rhizome among other publications, and during events at institutions such as ICA London (On Cripping), Raven Row (Sick Time is Resist Time), South London Gallery (The Conch), CAST Cornwall and Goldsmiths Centre of Feminist Research (WAL). Alice is also the co-producer of Access Docs for Artists, a resource for disabled and/or chronically ill artists, curators and writers, made in collaboration with artists Leah Clements and Lizzy Rose after a residency at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire. They were named on The Innovator’s List for 2020 (Artnet Intelligence Report) for their work on the resource. Alice holds an MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design (Royal College of Art) and a BA (Hons) in History of Art (Courtauld Institute of Art).
Fabienne Hess is a London-based Swiss artist and Associate Lecturer at LCF on BA (Hons) Critical Practice in Fashion Media. She graduated with an MA in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art in 2012 and has since shown her work, among other places, at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Art Night, Serpentine Galleries, French Riviera, London; MK Gallery, Milton Keynes; Baltic, Newcastle and Dakar Biennale. She has also published an artist book with Common Editions and has received commissions from LUX artists’ moving image, the University of Edinburgh and the BBC. She was selected by Artangel for their research and development programme.
