ANNE GREBBY
Professor
Anne Grebby is a visual artist, writer and lecturer with an acclaimed International reputation. She held the post of Professor of Fine Art and Course Leader at Sheffield Hallam University until 2004, when she left the UK to live and work in Italy.Over the proceeding ten-year period, she had a studio base, firstly in Pescia and subsequently, Lucca, Tuscany. There, she concentrated on developing a series of new narrative paintings, exhibiting them in Paris and Berlin, as well as showing frequently in Italy and England. During this time, she continued to work within the UK educational framework as External Examiner, Course Adviser and Visiting Lecturer. Anne Grebby is interested in all art as potential poetic energy, as a catalyst, an essential connection between body, mind, and spirit which, in its turn, can engender new creative processes to articulate, scrutinize, question and transform the world.
VERA DIETERICH WILTSHER
Fine art lecturer and conceptual artist
Born in Germany, Stuttgard 1968
Educated at Stourbridge college of Art and Design, foundation course 1988-89,
Sheffield Hallam university BA (hons) Fine art painting and printmaking 1989-92,
The SLADE school of fine art MA 93-96, PTLLS - City&Guilds (Level 4) 2013-14.
Vera has been exhibiting in galleries around the world, from the UK/London, to Germany, France, Italy and Portugal, as well as being a senior art lecturer at Sheffield Hallam university of Art - Fine art department and head of printmaking at Winchester school of art. Her work is held at the Staatgallerie at Stuttgart and in private collections in UK and Germany.
LUIGI TURRA
Composer
Luigi Turra (b. 1975) is a composer and graphic designer. His main interest is in the aural balance between silence and tactile perception of sound. Through the manipulation of concrete and acoustic sources, he develops acoustic paths in which listeners experience continuous pauses and subtly abrasive sound tensions. Starting from the capture of small sounds and noises, Luigi Turra creates pieces of music, that are references to beauty of the imperfection. His work is published from labels such as Non Visual Objects (AT), and/OAR (US), Koyuki (IT), White Line (UK), LINE (US), Dragon’s Eye Recordings (US), Trente Oiseaux (DE) and 901 Editions (IT).