Rachel Gannon and Chloé Regan work both individually and collaboratively with INK Illustration, a collective they co-founded with Fumie Kamijo in 2007. The group make innovative work in response to a broad range of commissions as well as self-initiated projects. They explore illustration and drawing through both their practical and academic studies. INK currently have [...]
Jonathan Gibbs was born in 1953. He studied at Lowestoft School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the Slade School of Fine Art. Following the Cheltenham Painting Fellowship in 1978 he lectured in various UK colleges and universities until 1990, principally Cheltenham, Bath and Middlesex. Since that time he has lectured [...]
Aaron Hill is a tutor in Creative Writing and Art & Design at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He is a practicing visual artist, exhibiting locally and internationally. Aaron has produced two illustrated books, Automaton (2006), shortlisted for the Crichton Award, and Damon (2011), both written by multi-award winning author Gary Crew. Aaron [...]
Adrian Holme lectures in visual theory and art history on BA Illustration courses at Camberwell College of Art and Design, UAL, and Maidstone, University for the Creative Arts (UCA). With a background in both art and biology, his research interests include the investigation of the division between art and science that opened up during the [...]
After completing my M.A. in illustration at the Royal College of Art (1991) I returned to Amsterdam where I successfully ran an illustration and design practice, gradually focusing on editorial illustration. During this time I have been teaching at various Dutch Art Colleges in visual communication and illustration. My interest in the development and critical [...]
With themes of obedience and disobedience, light and dark, now and then and lastly when; Amelia Johnstone’s work continues to explore fairy tales, and growing as her Alice self, she is uncomfortable and constantly shifting perspective. Amelia aims to champion the discipline of illustration; its importance, significance, its impact and purpose. Amelia traverses morality through [...]
Ben Kelly is a senior lecturer at the School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton. He works as a freelance Illustrator and exhibiting artist. In 2008 he became the second person after L S Lowry to win the football and the fine arts prize. He became artist in residence at Manchester city football club [...]
Born: Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 1978. Work: The Hermitage Museum – since 2001 Curator of the Educational Programs on the Middle Eastern art. The Museum of anthropology and Ethnology (Kunstkammer) – since 2008 Free lance specialist on Middle Eastern Edged Arms and Amour. Education: PhD on History and Ethnology – 2008: Post-graduature studies - The Museum of [...]
Katherina Manolessou is a London-based illustrator, printmaker and senior lecturer at the University of Westminster. Illustration commissions include The Guardian, Penguin, and Random House. Katherina has just completed a practice-based PhD at Anglia Ruskin University, focusing on animal characterisation in picturebook illustration. The picturebook resulting from this research project will be published by Macmillan Children’s [...]
Desdemona McCannon studied English Literature at Bristol University, followed by a further degree in Illustration at Liverpool John Moore’s University, and then a Masters in Sequential Illustration at the University of Brighton. She has worked as a freelance illustrator in the UK and Japan. Her writing on illustration has been diverse, with a commitment to [...]
