Project Facade: Credits

Lead Artist and Project Manager Artist in Residence and Research Associate in Dept of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Kings College London

Over the past six years, Paddy Hartley has successfully devised, fundraised and delivered a series of highly successful Artist in Residence programs, exhibitions and educational/public engagement events. Projects include his Year of the Artist residency at The Thackray Medical Museum and West Yorkshire Playhouse funded project at The Royal Armouries, both of which took place in Leeds and received critical acclaim. These residencies included education programmes devised and delivered by Hartley for schools and young people as part of his direct approach to public engagement. He has also created and delivered numerous events for families and young people at The Victoria and Albert Museum for exhibitions such as ‘Earth and Fire’, ‘Gothic’, the forthcoming Vivienne Westwood retrospective. He is also part of the team of artists at The VandA who have delivered the ‘Museums Award’ nominated ‘Every Object Tells a Story’ I.T. event in conjunction with Ultralab and Channel 4. For the past three years Hartley has also worked as Curator of The Brahm Gallery in Leeds staging over thirty exhibitions for which he has selected artists, produced press and design material, installed work and hosted previews and charity events. He is also responsible for managing the Gallery finances and organizing payment of artists through sale of work. He continues to manage the Gallery from London but is his last year in post due to concentrating on Project Facade.

Research Fellow and Biomaterials Scientist, Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Guy's Hospital, Kings College London

Dr. Ian Thompson is a Research Fellow in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, at Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London and is Principal Investigator with Paddy Hartley on the ‘Face Corsets and Bioactive Glass Facial Implants Project’ funded by a Wellcome Trust People Award. He is also the Projects Manager for the Tissue Engineering Group in the Department of Materials, Imperial College, London.  Ian has been responsible for the development of bioactive glass materials for tissue engineering and the repair of skeletal deformity for over seven years and has recently been working on a multi million Dollar project to produce a ‘living’ detector to determine the presence of toxic agents in public places.  Ian’s latest clinical activities have been to produce orbital floor replacements for patients who have experienced some form of trauma or disease.

Consultant Rheumatologist and Curator of The Gillies Archives Queen Marys Hospital Sidcup

Dr. Bamji has been Curator of the hospital’s Gillies Archives since 1989, in which capacity he has lectured widely on the subject of facial injury in the Great War, with special reference to artistic and photographic representation and documentation. Venues have included University College London, the Wellcome Institute, the National Army Museum, the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, the Royal Society of Medicine, various branches of the Western Front Association and a number of medical and local history meetings. He has written several papers about work at the hospital, and contributed to the anthology compiled by Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle “Facing Armageddon”, and maintains a website incorporating much material from the collections at Sidcup, together with the authoritative bibliography of WW1 medicine and surgery. Dr Bamji has provided help and advice to numerous researchers both at home and abroad, and has participated in, or advised on, several television documentaries about the war and plastic surgery.

Dr. Andrew Bamji is a full-time clinician, being a consultant at Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup in rheumatology/rehabilitation. First appointed to Sidcup in 1983, he has published widely on rheumatological subjects and writes a monthly column for the British Society for Rheumatology’s journal “Rheumatology”.

Erskine Design

Simon has been building websites for almost six years, working from basic, garish, illegible messes back in 1999, right up to the standards-compliant, accessible, content-managed monsters he now builds for a living. Simon runs Erskine design - a full service web design agency based in Nottingham, UK.

Originally a trained visual artist, Simon founded the arts organisation You Are Here Visual Arts back in 2000, and the organisation now has 300 members, and has run a number of specialised events, including the annual You Are Here Visual Arts Festival which takes place across Nottingham City Centre each Summer.

Simon is a well-respected web designer, and his personal website CollyLogic is read by 10,000 visitors daily. He is a member of the so-called Brit Pack - a loose collection of web designers who are passionate about web standards, usability, accessibility and design, regularly meeting in London or wherever else. The websites Simon builds make use of forward-thinking methods to ensure longevity, style and accessibility.

Simon met Paddy at Brahm Gallery in 2000, and didn’t keep in touch very well. Thankfully, the two have been in very good contact in the building of this website.