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Joan Ashworth
Joan Ashworth is an artist, filmmaker and independent scholar whose work includes commissioned titles, commercials and graphic identities for cinema and TV and collaborative research projects such as CHILDSPLA and animation therapy. From 1994–2015, Ashworth headed up the internationally renowned MA animation programme at the Royal College of Art, UK. Ashworth continues to lecture internationally and is a participant in Stories in Transit, a project initiated by Marina Warner to address refugee rights to a life of the mind and imagination (http://storiesintransit.org/workshops/aprilworkshops/). Ashworth studied filmmaking at the National Film and Television School and co-founded 3 Peach Animation, through which she directed many commissioned projects including the opening titles for Tim Burton’s Batman. Ashworth co-founded Seed Fold Films, through which she completed How Mermaids Breed (2002) and Mushroom Thief (2010) (see joanashworth.com/films). Ashworth is currently in production of a documentary on Sylvia Pankhurst: suffragette and artist.