Happy Birthday Robin!

...with a slice of vintage trainer cake

MA 2015-16

A great year for the illustration MA so far! The exploratory Unit has just finished and we are looking forward to some exciting collaborative work! Fun and interesting work below from MA student Meng Yun. 

Rubber Stamping!

Visiting lecturer Stephen Fowler on rubber stamping:

''I hear a Rubber Stamp bug has struck the Illustration course - ghosts, octopuses, cats, bees, garish faces, fast growing tentacled plants, all manner of slogans, are appearing on books, paper, stickers and studio walls. The immediate and assessable process has caught, not only the students’ imaginations, but also prospective applicants during open days.''

image by Stephen Fowler

 applicants' stamps

Leah Fusco - Reportager Award

Alumni and guest lecturer on the illustration course Leah Fusco was shortlisted for the Reportager award at UWE. The award is intended to encourage new, existing and emerging talent and projects in the area of reportage and documentary drawing.

Pushing the envelope - House of Illustration

image by Robin Chevalier

Illustration tutor Robin Chevalier is part of an exciting exhibition at the House of Illustration; imaginatively illustrated envelopes have been collected from around the world to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Penny Black, the world's first potage stamp.

image by Eda Akaltun

image by John Vernon Lord

The opening of the exhibition was accompanied by David Gentleman's excellent talk about his long career and  contribution to the royal mail.

image by David Gentleman

Matilda Tristram - Workshop

A tablefull of zines and short stories created by the 1st year illustrators as part of Matilda Tristram's workshop. There were only a few hours to write and draw all the zines but the results were spontaneous and refreshingly original! 

Matilda also gave a talk and showed her work, comics and short films, and brought along her huge collection of small comics and zines, accumulated over the years. Check out Matilda's website

LeGun - Lecture and Workshop

A day with LeGun's Robert Rubbish and Neal Fox, taking over the studio to make collaborative murals with the second years! Where do these strange creatures live and what stories are they part of?

 ...and second year tutor Robin Chevalier's birthday cakes!