Mr Anthony Rawson-Campbell
Anthony Rawson-Campbell is the Global Engagement Director for the Westminster School of Arts. An academic and curator whose work focuses on fashion, queer culture and material research. He has more than seventeen years of teaching and course leadership experience in London and internationally. His academic roles include leading the MA Menswear course at the University of Westminster for three years, one year as Course Leader for BA Fashion at Westminster, and six years as Programme Leader for Fashion Textiles at Middlesex University.
He trained at the Glasgow School of Art and is one of the first recipients of the Dewar Arts Award, followed by an MA in Fashion at Central Saint Martins under Louise Wilson OBE. Anthony’s professional background spans menswear, womenswear and interdisciplinary creative work. He has designed menswear at Belstaff, worked for over seven years with Richard Nicoll across accessories, womenswear and menswear, and collaborated with the artist Linder Sterling on performance work for Chisenhale Gallery. This led to styling Tim Walker’s first film commission for Frieze Art Fair in collaboration with Channel 4. He has also worked with London designers including Martine Rose and Jonathan Saunders.
He is co-founder of PARC, a multidisciplinary platform created with Paul Rawson-Campbell that focuses on collaborative making and queer material culture. PARC brings together garments, printed matter, jewellery and visual work. Its practice examines masculinity, gay culture and fetish through community-led creative production. PARC has been supported by Nike, Peroni, IMG Models, Agency Eleven, London Fashion Week, DiscoveryLAB and 100 Shoreditch Hotel.
In 2022 PARC launched Crap Magazine, a self-published series centred on queer culture and the fetishisation of garments through material themes such as White Socks, Grey Marl, Oxford Blue and Camouflage. The series features international contributors and has launched at the Paris Ass Book Fair, Palais De Tokyo and Brussels Ass Book Fair. Issues have been acquired by the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou, the Tom of Finland Foundation Archive in Los Angeles and the Westminster Menswear Archive. Anthony also curated the panel Sex and Garment Fetish: From Camp to Kiffeur at the KANAL Centre Pompidou in Brussels.
His ongoing research uses editorial curation, collaboration and material prompts to investigate how garments and colour shape queer identities, codes and cultural expression.