MA Illustration with Graphic Novel

Duration

1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

Institution code

L28

UCAS Code

Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson

Ben Wilkinson

Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson

Ben Wilkinson

Chi HaoYue
Chi HaoYue

Chi HaoYue

Chi HaoYue
Chi HaoYue

Chi HaoYue

Chris King
Chris King

Chris King

Emilie Peaker
Emilie Peaker

Emilie Peaker

Emilie Peaker
Emilie Peaker

Emilie Peaker

Emma Jones
Emma Jones

Emma Jones

Katy Mistry
Katy Mistry

Katy Mistry

Maja Szumilas
Maja Szumilas

Maja Szumilas

Olivia Earnshaw
Olivia Earnshaw

Olivia Earnshaw

Pratik Nathani
Pratik Nathani

Pratik Nathani

The Course

This course offers an expansive understanding of contemporary illustration through an inquisitive and explorative programme of study into authorial storytelling. On this course, you will explore multidisciplinary methods of working which extend the concepts of communication, sequential narrative and visualisation through research, practice and discursive critique.

The course allows students a stimulating space for exploring the boundaries of illustration and the graphic novel. It will offer the opportunity to unpick the specialist mechanisms related to both authorial practice, graphic novel construction, as well as other book forms and publishing approaches such as picturebooks, zines, visual diaries and other illustrative story play. You will explore both works of fiction and non-fiction, reportage and graphic journalism as well as stories for adults and children. The course will encourage you to consider co-designed and collaborative methods of narrative practice, as well as autobiographical, autofiction and other approaches derived from the ‘lived experience’.

You will be supported by a team with diverse research and practical interests from the fields of illustration, print, graphic novel and its broader visual cultures. Research and dissemination methods will be introduced and developed with the support of visiting industry speakers, workshops, lectures and seminars with opportunity to situate work in relevant professional contexts.

The course celebrates analogue approaches to working which complement contemporary and digital practice. You will be encouraged to undertake in-depth examination and experimentation of interdisciplinary practical and theoretical research methods through simple, hands-on and playful approaches.

The Structure

Our postgraduate courses include both specialist subject modules and transdisciplinary core modules. Both are underpinned by independent learning. You will be supported with a variety of teaching and learning methods, including individual supervision, group tutorials, live briefs and project proposals, as well as being encouraged to collaborate with students from other postgraduate courses.

Our academic staff are engaged in contemporary practice in their specialism and will support, encourage and challenge you during your studies. All postgraduate students are taught together in research methods and business-related modules.

Postgraduate courses can be studied either full-time over one academic year or part-time over two academic years. Teaching is broken down into three teaching blocks per year.

Students are able to access a range of specialist facilities aligned to their research interest.

Specialist Resources

Students are able to access a range of specialist facilities by arrangement. These include: Macs equipped with graphics tablets and software for tradigital drawing methods, a range of traditional printmaking resources, professional standard digital print facilities and use of a risograph machine.

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Amy de Nobriga

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BA (Hons) Illustration and MA Illustration with Graphic Novel - Course Leader

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Beth Duggleby

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MA Illustration with Graphic Novel - Senior Lecturer

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