Vega is Lecturer in Art Education, responsible for Secondary PGCE Art and Design. She also teaches the PGCE non-QTS. Her background is in secondary Art and Design, working in schools in North Cumbria. Prior to secondary teaching, she taught English Language to Leeds University pre-foundation students and worked in a range of galleries and community art spaces in Yorkshire and London, usually based around printmaking and education.
She is also a seasonal GCSE Art and Design moderator, works as Councillor for the British Printing Society and is on the Community Board for Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle.
She is a practising artist and works primarily with print.
MA - Fine Art and Education (Northumbria)
PGCE with QTS - Art and Design (Leeds)
MA - History of the Print (University College London)
BAHons - History of Art and Italian (University College London)
Member
National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)
University Based Initial Teacher Education network, with NSEAD
National Association for Fine Art Education
Cumbria Art Educators
Artists Newsletter
Cumbria Printmakers
Place-making
Communities of practice
Value systems within art and design education
The role of the artist-teacher
History of radical letterpress
Materiality
Fluxus
Brennan, V. (2024) ‘Asking difficult questions in perilous times: early career teachers, art practice and the
questioning stance’ [paper presentation], PEACE, International Journal of Art and Design
Education Conference (2024, 7-9 November), Liverpool Hope University
Brennan, V and Mendus, A., (2025) ‘Gifting an artistic licence: printing, radicalism and
pedagogy’, To be published in International Journal of Art and Design Education: Special Issue
Imagination
