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Curriculum Vitae

Teaching, animation & exhibitions

Graduated in Fine Arts (Sculpture) in 1978 from the Bulgarian National Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Art Nicolás Pavlovich, Sofia. Following several years at Boyana Studios as an animator, he worked as an art director and animator for commercial campaigns in Harare, Zimbabwe (1989–2000). Since 2001 he has been based within the tertiary academic world, teaching primarily Life Drawing, Animation Design and Visual Communication Foundation — in Bogotá from 2001–2010, and in Johannesburg from 2011. His fine art work is held in private collections in Canada, the United States, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Colombia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He is currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Teaching

Lecturer — Life Drawing and Animation Design, National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA)
2011–2016

Human anatomy and comparative anatomy, animation design, character design and visual communication foundation, taught to first- and second-year students.

Lecturer, National School of Caricature (Fundación Escuela Nacional de Caricatura), Bogotá, Colombia
2007–2010

Introduction to drawing and academic drawing / figure in context; development of scientific drawing and illustration — ethnographic types, flora and fauna, and ecosystems related to the Botanical Expedition of the New World (Hispanic and Republican period, 17th–18th century France, Spain, England).

Lecturer in Advanced Animation, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá
2001

Traditional animation, taught to fourth-year Graphic Design students.

Illustration Trainer, Action Magazine, Harare, Zimbabwe
1996–1998

Trained emerging illustrators in character development, composition, colour and layout.

Animation

Animator & Director, Mighty Movies, Harare, Zimbabwe
1994–1998

Stop-motion and plasticine animation for campaigns including Impala Soap and Air Zimbabwe, and original puppet character design for Zimbabwe Insurance Company.

Animator & Director, Michael Hogg / Young & Rubicam, Harare, Zimbabwe
1990–1995

Caricatures, stop-frame and stop-motion animation projects, corporate identity design and agency poster execution.

Director of Animation, Boyana Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria
1978–1986

Directorial debut Cube and Sphere (volumetric clay and plasticine animation, 1984–85). Contributed to Pirates, shown at the Festival of Red Cross and Health Films, Varna, 1981. Worked with animator Nikolay Todorov on Grandomaniya and Garsoniera (1979) — the latter a Golden Palm nominee for Best Short Film at Cannes, 1980. Traditional 2D animation and character design.

Illustration

Illustrator & original screenplay — independent, ongoing

The Book of Olfo, Moon, Moon, Moon and By the Ways of the Rope (unpublished).

Illustrator, Paul Wade / Ink Spots Studio, Harare, Zimbabwe
1999

Illustrated two books in the popular-science series KAWI, including Renewable Energy Challenges, for UNESCO's African Publishers' Network.

Senior Illustrator & Trainer, Action Magazine, Harare, Zimbabwe
1996–1998

Illustrated a series on four southern African ecosystems for the magazine's youth environmental-education content.

Caricaturist & Illustrator, Financial Gazette, Zimbabwe
1995

Economic caricatures on the country's current economic conditions.

Illustrator, The Maviyane Project, Harare, Zimbabwe
1991–1996

Background and texture design for posters and illustrations. Sculpted the logo for the Southern African Film Festival (1996); illustrated The Earth Is Our Mother, a poster for the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development.

Illustrator, Sol y Solecito, Bogotá
1988–1989

Illustrated a songbook of traditional and newly written Latin American children's songs (Editorial Norma).

Exhibitions & art fairs

2019FNB Joburg Art Fair — Corridors & Passages, presented by ROOM Gallery, Johannesburg
2011Corridors & Passages, ROOM Gallery & Projects, Johannesburg — and the Bag Factory residency exhibition KA:DA:FI, with Kabelo Kim Modise and Dathini Mzayiya, Johannesburg
2008Group exhibition, Casa Cómic, Bogotá
2004Exhibition at the Museum of Natural Sciences, National University of Bogotá
2001Arte Latino Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2000Exhibition of selected works, 1989–2000, Sandro's Gallery, Harare
1988Exhibition of works, the Salon of the English School of Cyprus, Nicosia
1973Group exhibition of sculptural works, Academy of Art Nicolás Pavlovich, Sofia

Independent artistic projects

2007–10Original Artistic Heritage and Architectural Engineering periods (Colonial and Republican), Colombia
2009(Juvenile) Bogotá Botanical Garden — Sabanero, four highland ecosystems (Cundiboyacense), unpublished
—Colonial architecture heritage projects, No. 17 of the Capital District of Santa Fe de Bogotá, Republic of Colombia

Referee contact details are available on request — left off this public page for privacy.