Phil Gomm leads our BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts degree at our Rochester campus. Phil has a first-class degree in Three Dimensional Design and a distinction in MA Design.
As an active filmmaker, photographer, writer, designer and blogger, Phil’s varied and encompassing creative experience directly enriches his ability to guide and mentor students.
Phil’s creative practice is varied, encompassing writing novels for both children and adults, exploring the unheimlich character of photography by manifesting phantasmagoria in old dark houses and devising and co-ordinating an ongoing cycle of collaborative European projects in which animation and animation technologies are applied imaginatively to classical music and its audiences.
In addition, Phil continues his long-term partnership with Dr Peter Klappa who together commission and manage annual collaborations between CAA undergraduates and the Bioscience Dept. at the University of Kent.
Phil and Dr Klappa have presented their work at various conferences and headed-up the 2011 ‘Spectacular Science’ Research cluster, which fostered collaboration between CAA graduates and the Bioscence Dept., University of Kent.'
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Awards, Grants and Commissions:
UCA Teaching Excellence Awards 2011 and 2013
Best Stand Award in 2010, 2013 and 2015
Computer Animation Arts stands he designed for New Designers took the Best Stand Award in 2010, 2013 and 2015.
Winner of New Media category in the Medway Design and Culture Awards 2010
The Making of Medway 2010 was a commissioned film for the 2010 one-day conference to reflect the dynamism of Medway’s burgeoning renaissance and city status bid.
The film won in the New Media category in the Medway Design and Culture Awards 2010, and, in conjunction with the conference itself, was later short-listed for Times Higher Education Excellence and Innovation in the Arts Award 2010.
Winner of the Times Higher Education Excellence and Innovation in the Arts Award 2009
The Illustrations (2009), The Fashion Show (2009), The Story So Far (2009) - three short films documenting the University for the Creative Art’s Fashion Gateway Project
Selected for Canterbury Film Festival 2008
5X5 (2008) – a short film showcasing the highly radical fashion illustrator, Neil Gilkes, which accompanied the 2008 exhibition exploring the importance of drawing, with commentary from Chris Townsend (Author of "Rapture - Art's Seduction by Fashion", "Vile Bodies" and "The Art of Tracy Emin").
The film was selected and shown at the Canterbury Film Festival 2008.