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Fine art degrees at Camborne ~ your local outstanding college

  • Modern facilities
  • Dedicated workspaces
  • Print studio and printing presses
  • Ceramic studio and kiln room
  • 3D print studio
  • Expert lecturers
  • Small class sizes
  • Likeminded people
  • Personal, wrap-around support
  • Come to a Taster Day – Wednesday 7th May NEW
Student Experience
Student Experience

Our graduates go on to an amazing array of careers, from fine artists and ceramicists to graphic designers, tattoo artists, museum curators and more.

Student Experience

Taster events

Come to an HE Art & Design Taster Event at Camborne

Come to an HE Art & Design Taster Day on May 7th

Thinking about studying Art & Design at degree level?

This Taster Day gives you the opportunity to experience what it’s like to study on our Foundation Degree or BA (Hons) Art & Design Practice courses at Cornwall College University Centre.

During the day, you’ll:

  • Explore our dedicated studios and facilities, including printmaking, ceramics, and 3D.
  • Meet lecturers and current students.
  • Take part in practical sessions, including creating your own Dry Point prints and Ceramic Vessel.
  • Find out how our degree programmes could help you move forward with your creative ambitions.
Whether you are considering full-time or part-time study, this is a chance to see if our courses are the right fit for you.

1 – Are you looking to gain a degree in Art & Design?

2 – Are you able to start part-time or full-time study in Camborne in September 2025?

3 – Do you already have a higher-level qualification? (ie. Bachelors Degree (Level 6) / Foundation Degree (Level 5) / HND (Level 5) / HNC (Level 4))

Campus life

Staff profiles

Jamie Hanson MA Fine Art

Jamie Hanson MA Fine Art

Senior HE Programme Manager / Senior Editorial Designer

I worked as an Editorial Designer in central London for over fifteen years. In that time I designed illustrated non-fiction books for a range of publishers including Dorling Kindersley, Time Life and Mitchell Beazley. Some of the titles that I have designed are, The Millennium Encyclopaedia – Dorling Kindersley (DK), Flight 100 Years of Aviation – DK. Mindpower series – Time Life.

I have worked as a Lecturer of Higher Education Art programmes across several institutions including Falmouth University and Truro College. I am currently working as Senior Programme Manager of the BA(Hons)/ FdA Art & Design Practice programme at Cornwall College, where I am also Group Lead for Progression to Higher Education. I have worked as an External Examiner for various HE colleges, and as a Chief External Examiner at Falmouth University.

I hold an MA in Contemporary Art from Falmouth University.

Will Teakle MA Photography

Will Teakle MA Photography

HE Photography Lecturer / Photographer

I have worked as a Photographer for over 30 years. Initially working in industry for magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies, publishers, television corporations, design agencies and private clients. I have seven photographs in The National Gallery Photographic Collection. Clients include The Observer, The Guardian, Channel 4, BBC, Vogue, Marie Claire, Faber & Faber.

As an educator, I have worked across a range of levels and institutions. I hold a Masters degree and a PGCE. I am a teacher and lecturer with over twenty years’ experience, I am still fascinated by Photography and its significance and influence. I continue to work as a Photographer based in Cornwall.

Dr James Kearns PHD

Dr James Kearns PHD

HE Contextual Studies Lecturer / Writer

Dr James Kearns was called as a barrister at Middle Temple, London, in 1997, specialising in both Criminal and Family law at the Inns of Court School of Law. He is a registered university teacher at the University of Plymouth, and lecturer in Contextual Studies and the Dissertation Module at Cornwall College University Centre, Camborne Campus. James earned his M.A. in English Studies: Landscape and Literature at the University of Exeter, and received his Ph.D. in English from the School of Society and Culture, University of Plymouth. He specialises in British Modernist literature of the period 1910-1945, with particular expertise in: Virginia Woolf and perceptual microgenesis; cognitive literary studies; Alfred North Whitehead and the philosophy of organism; literature and holism; literature and place; literature and politics (particularly Queer theory). His latest research examined the fictions of Virginia Woolf, which he read in conjunction with Jason Brown’s formulation of microgenetic theory – understood, in the first instance, as a short-term formation of a psychological process, and, according to Brown himself, as “[t]he incessant flow of cognition, the continual appearance and disappearance of new form at each moment of our waking and sleeping life […].” James has just completed a monograph, Virginia Woolf’s Microgenesis: Mental States and Conceptual Worlds, which will be published in September 2025 by Routledge as part of their Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Series. A paper on Woolf’s The Waves and cognitive derailment will be published in the summer of 2025 (vol, 23, no. 3), as part of a special edition of Acta Neuropsychologica, “Essays in Honour of Jason Brown.” James is currently working on his second monograph, Virginia Woolf’s Prose in Process: Prehension, Transition, Concrescence. This book examines the ways in which Woolf explored, and challenged, the realist/rationalist contradiction of a “Self” in the absence of the external world – how should one “describe a world seen without a self?” He has published three interconnecting novels with the Highfields Press, Guppy (2023), Herring (2024) and Gurnard (2025), with a fourth, Pike, due in 2026.

Rachael Reeve Edwards MA Fine Art

Rachael Reeve Edwards MA Fine Art

HE Fine Art Lecturer / Painter

I have worked in the Art and Design Field for over 30 years and taught in FE, HE and as a private tutor for most of this time.

I ran a small colour design business in London during the 1990’s after working as a gilder for a fine art restorer. I occasionally run art retreats abroad and continue to practice as a fine artist from my studio in Newlyn.

I have worked as a Lecturer In Access to Art and Design and Foundation in Art and Design in London, Canterbury and now at Cornwall College. I also run workshops at The Newlyn School Of Art and I am a mentor on their year long Professional Landscape Programme as well as working as a private mentor.

I hold a BA in Fine Art from Coventry University and an MA in Painting from Chelsea School of Art.

Simon Hall MA Ceramics

Simon Hall MA Ceramics

HE Ceramics Lecturer / Ceramicist

I am a ceramicist with over 3 decades of experience in making and teaching ceramics.

I trained in 3D Design (Ceramics) at West Surrey College of Art and Design, and my practice includes both wheel-thrown and hand-built forms. My signature work featured wheel-thrown white stoneware finished with richly textured volcanic glazes with recent, new work, focused on earthenware vessels with layered slip decoration, incorporating printed and textured elements.

My work has been exhibited widely, including at Earth and Fire, Art in Clay, and the White Gold Ceramics Festival and pieces are held in public collections such as The Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent.

Alongside my studio practice, I have taught extensively at institutions including Cornwall College, Truro College, Lincoln College of Art & Design, and Rufford Craft Centre.

Mollie Goldstrom MA Printmaking

Mollie Goldstrom MA Printmaking

HE Print Technician / Illustrator & Printmaker

Biography being updated

Hazel McGregor

Hazel McGregor

HE Art and Design Lecturer

Biography being updated

“I love how flexible the course is, allowing you to experiment with any type of media and choose which field of work you wish to pursue.”
Michelle Redmore, BA (Hons) Art & Design Practice alumna

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