Meet our staff

Gideon Bohannon

Senior LecturerMA, BA(Hons), PGCert, FHEA
Email me: gbohannon@aub.ac.uk

Overview

Gideon has 18 years of industry experience in animation, television and theatre, with his main specialism in the area of stop motion animation production, having worked for Aardman Animations for over a decade. He now teaches with the BA (Hons) Animation Production course, supporting stop motion and fabrication delivery to undergraduate and postgraduate students. His wealth of experience and knowledge in making and filming TV series and feature films, working in a live studio environment and fulfilling high-level client briefs, provides students with an industry perspective to their studies. Gideon also sits on the AUB Sustainability and Net Zero Task Force, a group that helps oversee AUB's transition to carbon net zero by 2030.

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Contact:

Name: Gideon Bohannon he/him
Email: gbohannon@aub.ac.uk
Phone: 01202363067

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • MA Illustration (Arts University Bournemouth)
  • BA(Hons) Fine Art (University of Central England)

Teaching Qualification

  • PGCert Creative Education (UCA)

Teaching

Gideon teaches on the BA (Hons) Animation Production course, specialising in stop motion and fabrication for animation. He previously led the short course in Modelmaking and taught on the Summer and Spring Arts Schools programme.

Courses

Research

Research Interests and Projects

Gideon responds to academic research and the simplicity of natural systems, attempting to build a cohesive relationship between art and science. His own practice is rooted in innovative ways of thinking, new materials, new techniques and academic examination. It seeks to raise questions about everyday space and our place within it: establishing a discourse between what is considered scientific and the emotional experience. He has an interest in the visceral response of learners to 'stuck states' and the use of a reflective ecology to help overcome liminality.

Member of AUB's DRAWING: Transformative Matter, Material Trace and Animation and Moving Image research groups.

Awards and Prizes

Notable awards/prizes

  • SAUB Award Winner (2021) - creating an outstanding learning environment through supporting AUB students
  • John Purcell drawing prize 2019 - for an exceptional work of art that demonstrates creative use of paper or inventive image making (2019)
  • AUBSU Thank You Award - Winner Platinum Award (2017)
  • AUBSU Thank You Award - Runner-up (2020)
  • AUBSU Thank You Award - Nominee (2016, 2018, 2019, 2022)

Memberships

Advance HE Membership

  • Fellow (FHEA)