There’s more to an art business than making art

Damhan Alla takes pride in developing the wider range of skills and experience needed to support the art industry and complicated projects. Explore tech, admin, events & activities, advocacy, and academic experience below:

Tech

  • Enrolled on the CodeFirstGirls Software and Data course due to complete in autumn 2024

  • Goldman Sachs - Introduction to Python & Apps certificate with CodeFirstGirls

  • Adobe suite, including LinkedIn Photoshop & Illustrator assessment certificates

  • Working knowledge of Linux/SQL/HTML/GNU Image Manipulation Program/Godot/Squarespace

  • Ability to use, create, and repair hardware

Admin

  • Member of CILIP

  • Library Assistant with Herefordshire Library Service

  • Artsite3 Studios Administrator, 2021-2023

  • Successful grant applications and project tenders to Arts Council, A-N Network and Herefordshire Council

  • Art cataloguing and awareness of SPECTRUM standards

  • Identifying locations of Herefordshire History images

  • Cleaning old books arriving at Herefordshire Archives and Records Service

  • Lead and assisted with multiple art studio, library, and collection moves, including in emergency scenarios

  • Advertising and PR for exhibitions

  • Bookbinding and book arts

  • Digital printing for artists

Events & Activities

  • Lifestyle and Wellbeing Coordinator at Heritage Manor

  • Hereford College of Arts Student Union Events & Activities Officer, 2015-2016

  • Creation of an interactive art installation and workshops to assist with public consultation on an art trail in Hereford

  • Assisting and leading lessons on the Printmaking Short Course at Hereford College of Arts, 2016-2017

  • Leading and assisting with art workshops in secondary schools

  • Leading The Big Draw at Hereford College of Arts in 2017

  • Student Ambassador while studying at Hereford College of Arts and Bournville College

  • First Aid, Fire Warden, and Manual Handling trained

Advocacy

  • Member of the Hereford Public Art Steering Group

  • Hereford College of Arts Student Union President, 2017

  • Hereford College of Arts Illustration Course Rep, 2016

  • Member of the Artboard Magazine Editorial Board (HCA Student Magazine) 2015-2016

  • Bournville College Student Council Member, 2012-2013

  • Experience as a trustee in the property sector

Academic

  • MA Fine Art, researching how smuggling can be used as a framework to understand art

  • BA(Hons) Illustration, discussed on the New Designers blog

  • BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma Art & Design

  • Working in partnership with external communities; creative arts education outside the institution as a way to develop employability skills alongside practice: case study published by the Association of Colleges

  • First undergraduate from HCA to present their research at a conference, with an investigation of an illustrated map of Dublin, at BCUR 2017

  • Member of the Connected Classes research group in 2015/2016, exploring technology and learning

  • Illustration dissertation research exploring how the void is illustrated

  • Other research including English, Russian, and Inuit folk art