Staff Profile

Joseph runs the wood workshop in Fine Art and supports students in all their woodworking needs. He demonstrates woodworking skills, techniques and processes to students and inducts them in the safe use of tools and machinery.

Amongst the varied and unusual projects students undertake in the workshop, the most common are; canvas stretcher making, framing, plinth and box making, wood carving and relief work, wood bending, furniture design and making, projection screens and other work that facilitates art making and exhibitions.

Joseph studied in performance art and graduated with a BA in Visual Performance from Dartington College. He has performed internationally, using performative actions to temporally liberate the body from hegemonic constrictions.

Joseph has been a designer and maker of experimental musical instruments for 30 years. In recent years he has led students and graduates in an experimental music group, Drone Ensemble which uses unique, self-made instruments in extended improvised performances.

He supports his partner, Sabina Sallis in her art practise: http://www.sabinasallis.com/