Illustration & Writing: Visual Languages 2nd International Illustration Research Symposium in conjunction with the Writing PAD network. North Wales School of Art & Design, Glyndwr University Thursday 3rd November 2011 “I must Create my own System or be Enslav’d by another Man’s” – WILLIAM BLAKE Following on from Shadow Play in Cardiff in November 2010, [...]
Cardiff School of Art & Design’s final year BA Illustration students invite you to their Graduate Show! 17th – 25th June 2011 Morgan Arcade Chambers 1st Floor, Morgan Arcade Cardiff CF10 1AE (just a short walk from Cardiff Central Station) http://cardiffillustration2011.co.uk/
Chris Glynn is Programme Director of the BA (Hons) Illustration course at CSAD. Born in Harrow, studied Music & Drama at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; PGCE at University of London Goldsmiths College 1987. From 1990 Chris took his passion for drawing and performance into animation, working as a storyboard and layout artist, character designer [...]
Born on 7th May 1977 at 12 O’ Clock midday in Chesterfield hospital in Derbyshire. The fourth of six children Amelia spent summers growing up in Dorset and Devon on rivers and in woods playing alone, or playing elaborate games with her siblings, or cousins or imaginary friends. Life was all about imagination then, and [...]
For as long as I can remember I have juggled ideas as pictures and ideas as words in my mind. Illustration seems to me to be a continual negotiation of these two ways of thinking. Is drawing a form of writing? I think about how children find it easy to describe concepts in line before [...]