Chris Wainwright

Chris Wainwright (1955-2017) was an artist and photographer. In 1992 he became course leader in fine art at Nottingham Trent University, and he became Dean of Art at Central Saint Martins in 1997, leading the school through radical changes, creating an international profile for research through new initiative such as Double Agents and Afterall. He spent ten years at the College before joining Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon in 2007 where he worked until he retired in 2016 to take up the post of UAL Chair of Fine Art.
His work can be seen in galleries from London (V&A) and Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale) to Beijing.

BA (Hons) Fine Art at Sheffield Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University), in 1977.
MA Graphic Design at Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University) in 1978.