Mr Anthony Campbell
Anthony Rawson-Campbell is Course Director for MA & MFA Menswear. An experienced academic with over 15 years’ experience teaching and leading courses in London and workshops internationally, including one year leading the BA Fashion at Westminster and 6 years as Programme leader of Fashion Textiles at Middlesex. He studied at the world-renowned Glasgow School of Art where he was the first recipient of the Dewar Arts Award, followed by an MA in Fashion at Central Saint Martins under the tutelage of Louise Wilson OBE.
Anthony’s career spans a range of disciplines within fashion and the wider creative industries, including designing menswear at Belstaff, over 7 years with Richard Nicoll on accessories, womenswear and menswear, working with iconic artist Linder Sterling on costume for performance art shown at the Chisenhale galley which led to styling Tim Walker’s first film for Frieze Art Fair. Also worked for numerous London designers including Martine Rose & Jonathan Saunders.
He is co-founder multidisciplinary platform Parc - a platform of collaborative output by Paul and Anthony Rawson-Campbell that is as much about the experience, energy, and creative process as it is about the artefacts, artwork, printed matter and garments they create. London based, with a background in fashion and art, Parc is optimistic & community focused. Parc ‘s work explores notions of masculinity, gay culture, and fetish. Championing diverse voices and varied points of view alongside their own work, vision and observations commenting on queer culture. Founded in 2018, Parc has been supported by globally renowned brands and agencies including Nike, Peroni, IMG Models, Agency Eleven, London Fashion Week, DiscoveryLAB sponsored by Toni & Guy & 100 Shoreditch Hotel.
They have exhibited work as part of Queer Art(ists) Now at Archive Gallery, East London and in 2022 launched crap zine, a self-published zine exploring queer culture & fetishisation of garments at Paris Ass Book Fair, Lafayette Anticipations 2022 (issue 1), Palais de Tokyo 2023 (issue 2). At PABF 2023 crap zine no.2 was selected to be included in Bibliothèque Kandinsky at Centre Pompidou, chosen by Vincent Simon, Director of PABF & the Director & Librarians from the Archive. Following the success of PABF crap zine was also presented at Tom Of Finland Arts Festival in London at the Standard Hotel, from which an edition of crap zine issue 2 was added to the foundation archive in Los Angeles.