
Anna Bhushan
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…

Sophie Herxheimer
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…

Adrian Holme
Provisional Title of Paper: ‘To perfect the wonders of the One: Alchemy, image and text in the late Renaissance’ A late flowering of alchemy in…

Desdemona McCannon
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,…

Alan MacGowan
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”…

Roderick Mills
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…

Catrin Morgan
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…

Alison Patterson
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,…

Graham Rawle
Graham Rawle is an extremely ambitious and exciting writer, illustrator and imaginer, his latest award winning book a fantastic version of L Frank Baum’s original…

Charlotte Stockdale
Title: ‘Shadows of Ambiguity’ Charlotte Stockdale is an illustrator who challenges simple notions of illustration and its creators. Illustration has the emotional complexity and subtlety…