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14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium

Event overview

On 22 and 23 November 2024, the Illustration Programme of Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL), will host the 14th International Illustration Research Symposium.

The symposium will explore:

  • active processes of heritage-making through digital, institutional, and communal archives and collections
  • illustrative and co-illustrative methodologies
  • the making and giving of a ‘voice’
  • understanding and communicating artefacts
  • looking at architecture as historical material, among other practices.
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Illustration and Heritage

Event details

The 14th Illustration Research Symposium will be held at UAL’s Chelsea College of Arts. It will include panels, papers, and posters by practitioners and researchers in illustration, heritage, architecture, anthropology, and other fields.

The symposium will consider principles including inheritance, displacement, collective memory, subjectivity, and plurality. How do contemporary illustrators participate in historical narratives and give voice to people and communities — remembered, obscured, and imagined — through their work?

The 14th Illustration Research Symposium will include keynotes from:

  • Dan Hicks, curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford
  • Yeni Kim, illustrator and Associate Professor at Hongik University
  • Chris Lee, graphic designer and Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute.

The symposium is curated in response to Illustration and Heritage, by Rachel Emily Taylor, published in 2024 by Bloomsbury Press.

This is organised by Illustration Research in partnership with the Association of Illustrators, Illustration Educators, and the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.

Event schedule

Day 1 - Friday 22 November

9am - 10am

Location: The symposium will be taking place at Chelsea College of Arts, SW1P 4JU. Access will be from the Atterbury Street Courtyard entrance. The doorway is in the courtyard and on the left of the Henry Moore sculpture.

  • Registration and coffee

10am - 10.30am

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Welcome address: Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, UAL
  • Opening statement: Rachel Emily Taylor, Course Leader BA (Hons) Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL

10.30am - 11.20am

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Chair: Rachel Emily Taylor, Course Leader BA (Hons) Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
  • Keynote speaker: Dan Hicks, '"Realistic Degeneration" Or, How Illustration can Change the World'

11.30am - 12.50pm

Panel 1: Archives

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Chair: Joanne Morra, Professor of Art and Culture, Chelsea Saint Martins College of Arts, UAL
  • Panel member: Catrin Morgan, 'Satan was a Lesbian: Pulp Fiction Covers in the Lesbian Herstory Archive'
  • Panel member: Rudy Loewe, 'State Secrets and Black Power: Transforming Archival Research into Painting'
  • Panel member: Amy Goodwin, 'Exploring Heritage and Longevity: Taking up Space'

Panel 2: Learning

Location: Red Room

  • Chair: Darryl Clifton, Design Programme Director, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
  • Panel member: Barnaby Lickens-Richards, 'The Alphabet Tree: Concerning image-text relations, medieval schematics and material visions'
  • Panel member: Desdemona McCannon, 'An Unsophisticated Art: Tracing the Lineage of Popular and Folk Arts within Contemporary Illustration Practice and Pedagogy in the UK'
  • Panel member: Philip Kennedy and Tenaya Steed, 'Streets and Stories: Exploring the Intersection of Illustration and Community Narratives in The Liberties, Dublin'

1pm - 2pm

Location: Green Room

  • Lunch

2pm - 2.50pm

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Chair: Luise Vormittag, Reader in Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
  • Keynote speaker: Yeni Kim, 'Dot-to-Dot: Drawing Connection in Heritage Through Illustration'

3pm - 4.20pm

Panel 1: Resistance

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Chair: Nadine Monem, Associate Lecturer, London College of Fashion, UAL
  • Panel member: Marwan Kaabour, 'The Queer Arab Glossary: The First Published Collection of Arabic Slang'
  • Panel member: Ahmad Barclay, 'Visualising Palestine: Pursuing Narrative Change for Social Justice'
  • Panel member: Fionnuala Doran, 'Resisting Inattention: Narratives of Resistance for a Mass Audience'

Panel 2: Architecture

Location: Red Room

  • Chair: Gareth Proskourine-Barnett, Senior Lecturer, MA Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
  • Panel member: Howard Read, 'Urban Street Markets: Illustrative Practice as Heritage – a Subjective Visual, Historical, and Literary Exploration'
  • Panel member: Judit Ferencz, 'Demolition or Refurbishment? The Role of Illustration Research in the Future of Social Housing'
  • Panel member: Ian Chamberlain, 'The Synthethic Landscape: Architecture as the Material to Support History'

4.30pm - 5.50pm

Panel 1: National Story

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Chair: Fionnuala Doran, Lecturer in Illustration, Edinburgh College of Art
  • Panel member: Jaleen Grove, 'The White Page: Illustration Research and Illustration Studies Applied to Old Magazines'
  • Panel members: Andrew Howells, Ari Chand and Chloe Killen, 'Activating Artefacts: Recontextualising the Illustrative Works of Margaret Senior and her Contribution to the Visual Narrative of Australian Wildlife'
  • Panel member: Ravista and Zarna, 'Redefining the 3RD WRLD'

Panel 2: Institutions

Location: Red Room

  • Chair: Adrian Holme, Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
  • Panel member: Olivia Ahmad, 'Framing New River Head'
  • Panel member: Rachel Emily Taylor, 'Illustrating Pirates: Illustration Consultancy at the National Maritime Museum'
  • Panel member: Kirsty McCarrison and Lorna Batty, 'Drawn from History: Amplifying Youth Voice through Illustration'

6pm - 7.30pm

Poster Session

Location: Triangle Space

The poster exhibition will be open for the duration of the symposium.

Refreshments will be provided.

Day 2 - Saturday 23 November

9am - 10am

Location: Green Room

  • Coffee

10am - 10.30am

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Nanette Hoogslag, Journal of Illustration

10.30am - 11.30am

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Chair: Kam Rehal, Senior Lecturer, BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
  • Keynote speaker: Chris Lee, 'Historiography as Indictment'

11.30am - 12.50pm

Panel 1: Heritage-Making

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Chair: Amy Goodwin, Lecturer, BA Illustration, University of Plymouth and MA Illustration (Online), Falmouth University
  • Panel member: Lizzie West, 'Bridging Heritage Interpretation and Visual Creation: A Personal Journey of Integration'
  • Panel member: Jim Butler, 'Fitzwilliam’'s Dublin: Shining a Light on a Colonial Legacy'
  • Panel member: Lucy Roscoe, 'Illustrating Raby Castle'

Panel 2: Technology

Location: Red Room

  • Chair: Sheena Calvert, Senior Lecturer, Contextual Studies Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
  • Panel member: Ksenia Kopalova, 'Towards the Politics of Photogrammetry Archives: Polycam'
  • Panel member: Andrew Howells, 'Activating Artefacts: Illustration Thinking and Process as Tools for Developing Visual Narratives to Contextualise Historical Artefacts and Cultures'
  • Panel member: Kivilcim Göksu Toprak, 'Audial Snapshots: Capturing Urban Transformation in Everyday Soundscapes'

1pm - 2pm

Location: Green Room

  • Lunch

2pm - 3.20pm

Panel 1: Community

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Chair: Luise Vormittag, Reader in Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
  • Panel member: Karen Sung, '(Un)welcomed Inheritance? Considering the Weight of Heritage through Culturally-specific Understandings of Semiotics in a Co-illustration Session among South Koreans'
  • Panel member: Jhinuk Sarkar, 'Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration: Community Illustrators'
  • Panel member: Becky Shaw, 'How Deep is Your Love? Social Art Practice as Infrastructure'

Panel 2: Biography

Location: Red Room

  • Chair: Geoff Grandfield, Associate Professor Illustration Animation, Kingston School of Art
  • Panel member: Fred Lynch, 'Visiting the Relatives: Drawing the Past, Place by Place'
  • Panel member: Hannah Kershaw (Rollings), 'A Tea Planters Archive'
  • Panel member: Louise Bell, 'The Granddaughter-illustrator as a Performing Agent of Post-memory'

Obedient Play workshop

Location: Triangle Space

The Obedient Play workshop is led by Vicki Aimers.

3.30pm - 4pm

Location: Green Room

  • Coffee

4pm - 5.20pm

Panel 1: Voice

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Chair: Rachel Emily Taylor, Course Leader BA (Hons) Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
  • Panel member: Lamya Sadiq, 'Always Already Spoken For: Reflections on Hauntings'
  • Panel member: James Walker, 'Specters of the Past: Illustrating Generational Heritage and Cultural Memory'
  • Panel member: Amelia Huw Morgan, 'A Charabanc to Disneyland? In fear of Monoculture: Wonder, Participation, Memories and the "Close Third Person" – Towards Ventriloqual Experiences in Heritage and Inherited Contexts'

Panel 2: Materiality

Location: Red Room

  • Chair: Adrian Holme, Senior Lecturer, BA (Hons) Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
  • Panel members: Laura Copsey, Sara Perry, Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw and Helen Wickstead, 'Supermarket Ruins: Archaeological Stories for Our Times'
  • Panel member: David Lemm, 'Roots, Ruins and Remnants'
  • Panel member: Rachel Lillie, 'Some Chingford Walls'

5pm - 5.30pm

Location: Banqueting Hall

  • Closing statement

Contact

If you have further questions get in touch with us at illustrationandheritage@arts.ac.uk

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