Education, qualifications, employment and collaborations
Sabine Kussmaul
sabine@sabinekussmaul.com
www.sabinekussmaul.com
https://www.instagram.com/sabinekussmaulvisualartist/
I am a visual artist with a background in fashion design and illustration, with a recent PhD from developing and investigating creative practices in the outdoor world, and a teaching practice in further education.
Education and qualifications
2025 PhD, Artmaking in the outdoor environment: negotiating experiential and material complexities, University of Chester
2018 MA Fine Art, University of Chester
2001 Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Sunderland University & Tameside College
1991 - 1992 Postgraduate studies at Pratt Institute and Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA
1991 Degree in fashion design (Dipl. Fashion Designer (FH) ), University Pforzheim, Germany
1989 Internship in the fashion industry with Givenchy and Jin Abe, Paris, France
Scholarships by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
1991-1992 Scholarship for post-graduate studies
1987-1991 Scholarship for undergraduate studies
Additional qualifications
2008 Level 2 Certificate in Learning Support, Pathway 2: Numeracy, Liverpool Community College
2008 Modelling the climate, The Open University
2007 Using Mathematics, The Open University
2000 Certificate in Health & Safety, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Teaching in Further Education
- Drawing, painting and creative practice skills for learners of all levels
- Fashion drawing and illustration
Since 2019 The Guild for Lifelong Learning, Wilmslow - teaching drawing, painting and related courses
Since 2018 Private workshops in fashion drawing/illustration and life-drawing
2004 - 2008 Liverpool Community College, Liverpool
2001 - 2002 Tameside College, Ashton-under-Lyne
2000 HM Prison Wakefield (Beverley College)
1992 - 1998 Balthasar-Neumann Schule II, Bruchsal, Germany
Teacher Training
2018 Drawing, colour techniques, documenting the creative process, Fallibroome Academy, Macclesfield
Teaching in Higher Education
2023 Workshop Moving on common ground for students of BA Creative Expressive Arts, Health, and Wellbeing, University
of Derby - with Gemma Collard-Stokes and Scott Thurston
2022 Tutoring MA Fine Art students, University of Chester
1997 Fashion Drawing, Pforzheim University, Germany
Curriculum Development
1992 Essential contribution to the development of Fashion Drawing and Illustration Curriculum, Fashion Design Assistant
qualification pathway, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Free-lance designer/artist
Since 1998 Commissions of wall-hung artwork for private collectors or commercial indoor environments
1994 - 2016 Illustrator for print and digital media: packaging, books, magazines, company reports and educational resources, e.g.
for Medienwerkstatt Mühlacker, Germany.
1992 - 1994 Designer for sportswear and knitwear
Projects and collaborations
Since 2021 Our common ground, interdisciplinary collaboration on Bakestonedale Moor - with Gemma Collard-Stokes
(choreoprapher) and Scott Thurston (poet/movement practitioner)
Since 2022 Imperial Bees, collaborating with J. Fischer and J. Hunt as a rock music trio, contributing song writing, vocals, guitar
and bass playing
Since 2019 Musical improvisation with guitars – with Simon Ross
2021 Figurative drawing and yoga - with Deborah Graham (yoga therapist)
2020 The Octet, member of online free-improvisation music group
2015-2016 Multi-media performances – with Mark Sheeky (multi-media artist)
2014 Ghosts in the machine, a project that explored the community of musicians in the Macclesfield area: we conducted
published interviews, produced photographic documentation of the project, produced original artwork, and
compiled a final exhibition of all materials – with Sara MacKian (geographer/visual artist)