Vega Brennan

Biography

Vega is Lecturer in Art Education, responsible for Secondary PGCE Art and Design. She also teaches the PGCE non-QTS. Her background is in secondary Art and Design, working in schools in North Cumbria. Prior to secondary teaching, she taught English Language to Leeds University pre-foundation students and worked in a range of galleries and community art spaces in Yorkshire and London, usually based around printmaking and education.

She is also a seasonal GCSE Art and Design moderator, works as Councillor for the British Printing Society and is on the Community Board for Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle.

She is a practising artist and works primarily with print.

Qualifications and memberships

MA - Fine Art and Education (Northumbria)

PGCE with QTS - Art and Design (Leeds)

MA - History of the Print (University College London)

BAHons - History of Art and Italian (University College London)

 

Member

National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)

University Based Initial Teacher Education network, with NSEAD

National Association for Fine Art Education

Cumbria Art Educators

Artists Newsletter

Cumbria Printmakers

 

Academic and research interests

Place-making

Communities of practice

Value systems within art and design education

The role of the artist-teacher

History of radical letterpress

Materiality

Fluxus

Publications

Brennan, V. (2024) ‘Asking difficult questions in perilous times: early career teachers, art practice and the
questioning stance’ [paper presentation], PEACE, International Journal of Art and Design
Education Conference (2024, 7-9 November), Liverpool Hope University

Brennan, V and Mendus, A., (2025) ‘Gifting an artistic licence: printing, radicalism and
pedagogy’, To be published in International Journal of Art and Design Education: Special Issue
Imagination

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