[3] There the professor was Kenneth Rowntree, whose French-influenced work did not appeal; his other teachers included Richard Hamilton who enthused him,[2] and Ian Stephenson.

He was among the group of student friends of Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry at the university, along with the older artist Stephen Buckley.

[4][5] Others, besides Buckley, Ferry and Head, who were influenced by Hamilton at Newcastle were the students Rita Donagh and the sculptor Tony Carter, and Mark Lancaster who was teaching.

[6][7] Head worked on exhibition layout at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in summer 1967, for Niki de Saint Phalle.

Head attended Saint Martin's School of Art, London, in 1969–1970;[3] he studied on the Advanced Sculpture Course run by Barry Flanagan.