Staff
Chris Mackenzie
Lecturer in Digital Art
chris.mackenzie@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1292 886 429
Fax: +44 (0) 1292 886 371
Room: Ayr Campus, D209
Profile
Chris’s background is in Graphics and Illustration. The many clients he has worked with include Random Century Publishing, The NME, Parlophone Records, Oxford University Press, Vogue, Elle, Tatler, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Glasgow Herald, The Labour Party, Westminster Arts Council, The Burton Group, the filmmaker Derek Jarman and the actress Kathy Burke. Most of this work was London-based.
Chris exhibits his printmaking and painting works in various venues around the country and online and is currently planning a collaborative exhibition with a sculptor to be held in the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, in July 2009. He has strong links with most of the major design companies in the West of Scotland as well as the other artistic communities and organisations within the creative industries.
Chris has been a lecturer on the BA (Hons) Digital Art programme since 2005, having previously taught Illustration and Graphic Design at Glasgow Metropolitan College and Glasgow Caledonian University for over ten years. He is committed to keeping apace with new developments in digital media, as well as encouraging the perpetuity of traditional creative practice, such as painting and printmaking..