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Welcome to the BA (hons) Illustration website
Illustration is having a rebirth at present, enlivening the art world with bright, humorous, and thought-provoking images, and stories filled with pathos and originality.
"Illustration speaks to all people on all levels, and even in this desensitised, image-saturated world it can enchant, inform and inspire through its extraordinary discipline"
This unique, intense three-year course is inspired by the vast potential for communication, and taught by enthusiastic and varied practitioners from perspectives of literature, theatre and interaction. Digital and analogue processes sit side-by-side and the importance of teamwork, as well as individual excellence, is recognised.
Above: Image by James Southall
Dedication to your subject, especially drawing, is important to your success as an illustrator. By exploring different methodologies, we ask what drawing is, how it can be used, and what makes ‘good’ drawing? It does not necessarily involve a piece of paper and a pencil. Graduates may choose to follow careers in the illustration and design professions, pursuing opportunities in animation, film, TV and the Web. By developing transferable planning, communication, and critical skills graduates may also find career pathways into other creative roles.
Illustration at Cardiff is a vibrant, innovative course that seeks to explore the future of the discipline without alienating its rich past. Significantly, illustrators work as catalysts, fuelling conversations and collaborations of consequence.
“There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders” – Angela Carter
News
SCATTER
An exhibition of second year BA Illustration students' work entitled 'Scatter' will take place from March 14th - 20th, 2010, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Cardiff, CF10 2FC.
For more information, visit the Scatter blog here.
posted 9th Mar '10
SHADOWS
A performance by First Year BA Illustration Students based upon two short stories by Peter Carey:
· Notes on The Shadow Industry
· The Last Days of a Famous Mime
5.30pm on Thursday 10 December 2009 MAP Studio, Howard Gardens Campus. View images from the show on the 'Student work & links' page.
posted Dec 09
Window Wonderland win for Holly
Congratulations to Holly Rogers for winning Apostrophe boulangerie-patisserie's competition, judged by the editors of 'Computer Arts' and 'Design Week', and the director of 'Art London' contemporary art fair. Holly will be awarded a £1000 educational bursary and her winning design will be displayed at Apostrophe's Great Castle Street branch in London.
Images of the final designs will be posted in the next few days at www.apostropheuk.com.
posted Nov 09
Polluted Minds
A group of Illustration students are mounting a collaborative exhibition called 'Polluted Minds' at TactileBOSCH in Cardiff. The show runs from 28th November to 5th December '09.
Full details and images of the works in progress can be found on their website.
posted Nov 09
Amelia Johnstone
We are delighted to welcome on board Amelia Johnstone MA RCA to our core team. Amelia joins us from running the BA Illustration programme in Hereford.
posted 8th June 09
Heroes & Monsters
As part of CSAD's Degree Show on Saturday 13 June, Illustration students will be running a HEROES and MONSTERS puppet-making workshop.
posted 8th June 09
Attic
A free exhibition of Illustration and Graphics talent in the Capitol Shopping Centre between 25th May – 5th June 2009.
More info on the Graphics blog...
posted 24th May 09
BOOM!
Illustration is holding its first public show of Second Year work, May 21-24 in Cardiff City centre.
posted 8th May 09
