Rob returned to Northumbria nearly 30years after graduating from the BA Creative Arts course, having followed a career encompassing photography, broadcast media and music production. After recently completing the MA Creative & Cultural Industries Management course he has worked at the BxNU Institute, production managing events in the Experimental Studio at BALTIC 39.

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In the late 1980s his degree course focused on 'taking art to the community' (sic), while his later postgraduate research looked at the nature of participation: testing its definitions and presumptive primacy within the sphere of public arts funding. Now, he has a supporting role in BxNU's artistic and curatorial research, pursuing new, more collaborative ways of working; with groups and individuals from the wider artistic community in the North East, as well as from within BALTIC and Northumbria.

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