Find out more about the teachers on the International Foundation Programme's Art and Design pathway here at the University of Edinburgh Robbie Bushe Robbie is the lead lecturer for Art and Design on the IFP and Course Organiser for Art Short Courses at the University's Centre for Open Learning.Before joining us at the University of Edinburgh, Robbie lectured in painting and fine art at Gray's School of Art, the University of Chichester, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Oxford Brookes and Edinburgh College of Art .Born in Liverpool in 1964, Robbie graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1990. He is an elected Royal Scottish Academician (RSA), where he acted as secretary from 2018-2021 and was President of Visual Arts Scotland from 2015-2017.Robbie is a figurative artist whose practice centres on the depiction of detailed, suggestive narratives, frequently set within expansive architectonic constructions.His work has won many awards, most notably the inaugural W Gordon Smith painting prize in 2016, was a short-listed prize winner at the John Moores Painting Prize in 2021 and won the Highly Commended Prize at Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2023. He is currently represented by Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh. Susie Wilson Susie is a Teaching Fellow in Art and Design on the IFP and also teaches Short Courses at the University's Centre for Open Learning. She previously taught Drawing, Printmaking and Artists' Books at Edinburgh College of Art and also teaches workshops in adult education and schools in and around Edinburgh. Susie was awarded her degree in Drawing and Printmaking in 1991 from Edinburgh College of Art, where she also obtained a Postgraduate Diploma. Her work has continued to be print-oriented, but her practice has expanded to include text /image and 3D form. These elements have often been realised in the various forms of an artist book, and she greatly relishes the possibilities for conjunction and collision which this form offers.Susie was recently awarded the Maureen Duke Educational Award, Society of Bookbinders (2021), Nancy Graham Memorial Book Prize, VAS, (2019), Sally Schofield Memorial Award (Visual Arts Scotland, 2015) and was an invited Artist in Residence at Edinburgh College of Art Library (2016). Stephen Lee Stephen is a Teaching Fellow (Arts) at the University of Edinburgh teaching across the International Foundation Programme, the International Summer School and the Introduction to Graphic Design courses. Stephen has an industry background as a Graphic Designer, Art Director and Photographer, with 20 years’ experience working in all aspects of creative design and media. He has also been a Lecturer at university level for more than 15 years, within the areas of Fashion Communication, Art and Design and Graphic Design, specialising in visual communication through graphic design, typography, publication, image design and film making. In addition to his qualifications in Graphic Design and Photography, Stephen also holds a First-Class Honours Degree in Fine Art. This article was published on 2025-01-23
