*illustration: Ericailcane 2009 Title of Paper: Housing the Beast. This paper sets out to explore the recurring image of the house and the beast manifest in contemporary illustration, its connections with literature, and its redolence of the tensions between self and other, and the familiar and unfamiliar within contemporary society. Derek Bainton lectures in Illustration [...]
Anna Bhushan is an enchanting illustrator and serious thinker. Her delicate works tackles themes in a way that really inspires and help understanding. She manifests a space in illustration for herself as a real individual with a unique stance and voice, From Anglo Indian origins Anna works both in London and New York as both [...]
Sophie Herxheimer straddles the illustration world with real life. Magnificent and colourful Sophie’s world is mythical and magical, whilst also being raw and gritty. Sophie has a strong stance on where illustration should go, and confronts the word with disdain as it begins with ‘ill’, she is bold, imaginative and not scared of challenges her [...]
William Blake (1795) Isaac Newton, Colour print with pen ink and watercolour. 23.6×18.1 inches. Tate Gallery, London Robert Fludd - title page Utriusque cosmi historia 1617 The metaphysical, physical, and technical history of the two worlds, namely the greater and the lesser, published in Germany between 1617 and 1621 Provisional Title of Paper: ‘To perfect [...]
Title of Paper: “Transformative Imagery for Shakepeare’s ‘The Tempest’ - Towards a ‘Visual Poetry’” I work at North Wales School of Art, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, North Wales where I am a senior lecturer, co-ordinating the visual culture modules and teaching Illustration at BA and MA level. I have a particular interest in character design and [...]
Shadows reveal and conceal, they are symbolically deceitful but fundamental to the draughtsmans’ art. The paper “Trusting Mephistopheles: the Alchemy of Representation in Goethe’s Faust” presents a series of illustrations to Faust part 1 and explores themes of light and shadow, knowledge and reality, authenticity and deceit, relating them to the practice of illustration and [...]
Roderick Mills is one of those illustrators whose name always resonates, and whose work flows abundantly. For this symposium Roderick is going to focus on his latest film piece, not illustration. Exploring Sleeping Beauty his latest film fits beautifully with the ‘kissing awake’ part of the symposium. Roderick is so prolific it is a wonder [...]
In this paper I will be considering the relationship between illustration, deception and authenticity. My research looks at the construction and development of hoaxes, considering them as illustrated narratives in which illustration and graphic design act as aids to the deception. The deceptions that interest me are not simply lies; they are the seamless transitions [...]
Still from: Secret of Kells (2009) Title of Paper: The Secret of Kells and the Illumination of Animation Alison Patterson is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of English, Film Studies, at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research for this symposium expands her principle interests in Film-as-History and cinematic arts of description and illustration to [...]
Born in London in 1963, Robert Pepperell studied at the Slade School of Art, leaving in 1988. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s he exhibited numerous innovative electronic works, including at Ars Electronica, the Barbican Gallery, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, the ICA, and the Millennium Dome. He has also published several influential books, including [...]
