Staff profiles

 

Chris Glynn

Programme Director

 

Chris Glynn is Programme Director of the BA (Hons) Illustration course at CSAD. Born in Harrow, studied Music & Drama at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; PGCE at University of London Goldsmiths College 1987.

 

From 1990 Chris took his passion for drawing and performance into animation, working as a storyboard and layout artist, character designer and developer for major animation studios in the UK, France and Germany. Credits include Tiny Planets, Under Milk Wood, A Monkey’s Tale, Noah’s Island, Kid Clones and Sheeeep!

 

Chris has illustrated children’s books including the Bump in the Night trilogy with partner Ruth Morgan, and award-winning Byd Llawn Hud/One Busy Book with Gomer Press. Recent exhibitions include solo show The Park at Oriel Tri, and a group show Addiction at Tactile Bosch, curated by Jan Bennett and Kim Fielding.

 

Chris has taught animation, drawing and professional skills at the University of Western Denmark, Glamorgan Centre for Art & Design Technology, Institut de L’Image de l’Ocean Indien (Reunion Island), UWCN Fashion and CSAD’s BA Graphic Communication programme. He has also contributed to arts education projects with organisations such as Children’s Music Workshop, Fundacio la Caixa in Catalunya, Galeri in Caernarfon and leading UK orchestras.

 

Chris is a lead participant in UWIC’s newly active MeAT Research group headed by Dr. Stephen Thompson and Dr. Ashley Morgan.

 

Email: cglynn@uwic.ac.uk

Tel: 02920 417085

 

Theo Humphries MA (RCA)

Lecturer

 

Born in Devon, Theo first studied Design Futures at The University of Wales, Newport, and then completed a masters in interaction design at The Royal College of Art, London, in 2005.

 

Theo is a cofounder of 3eyes Design Consultancy. Through 3eyes, he has collaborated internationally with creative people, concentrating his skills, energy, and cutting edge design ethos into commercial work for clients such as Sony and Nokia, as well as undertaking further academic research. Theo's work has featured in The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and in numerous books, journals, and magazines. His work is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Sex in New York.

 

Previously Theo ran MA Design at The University of Wales, Newport, and also taught on their Interactive Media BA (Hons) course. He was a lead participant in the LOCA pervasive surveillance project that has been 'deployed' in the UK, Finland and the United States.

 

Theo says "I like people to be delighted, inspired or troubled by the concepts, objects and experiences that I create or orchestrate, frequently conveying my work through ‘cute’ media (such as video, or playful objects), yet sinister currents flow beneath this amiable exterior: surveillance, obsolescence, addiction, urban-decay, sex."

 

Much of Theo's work can be found at www.3eyes.co.uk.

 

Theo is a lead participant in UWIC’s newly active MeAT Research group headed by Dr. Stephen Thompson and Dr. Ashley Morgan.

 

Email: thumphries@uwic.ac.uk

Tel: 02920 417085

 

Amelia Johnstone

Lecturer

 

"Illustration is a couplet of image and text, one next to, beside or inspired by the other, it is chiefly words which inspire the imagination to create the image. There is a process beyond the literal, which makes the words and image do very separate things whilst lying next to each other. They are not in love with each other but are siblings with complementary or contradictory personalities. Sometimes they disagree, grow up or grow out of each other, other times they run away and become something else, or happily come home and converse again."

Amelia Johnstone 2005

 

Born on 7th May 1977 at 12 O' Clock midday in Chesterfield hospital in Derbyshire. The fourth of six children Amelia spent summers growing up in Dorset and Devon on rivers and in woods playing alone, or playing elaborate games with her siblings, or cousins or imaginary friends. Life was all about imagination then, and continues to be now.

 

"One of my earliest illustrated memories is Struwwelpeter‚ this book brought my nightmares to life, and is the reason I stopped sucking my thumb. It was in the bookshelf in the room I used to stay in, in my Grandmother's house, and when the lights went out and the door stood a little ajar the scissor man would come... ...The door flew open, in he ran, the great, long, red-legged scissorman...

In his fashion of white socks, red trousers, long nose and tousled hair he haunted me through those early years, imagining as soon as I put my thumb in to sleep that he would awaken from his book like state and come to life to chop off my thumbs. That illustration had the power to change me, and I think has even more significance in my work. ‘Shellewellyn’ my male alter ego was possibly conceived in these early years… look at his work to discover…"

Amelia Johnstone 2009

 

Her first dissertation 'A long time ago when wishing still helped' - Imagery, Imagination and Private Worlds, describes how it is through the late night dreaming hours that ideas are born and identities grow.

In 2004 Amelia became part of an exciting illustration movement which culminated in the publication of Le Gun magazine. Le Gun describes Amelia as 'a spiritual descendant of the Bloomsbury Group with a male alter ego called Shellewellyn'.

"It explores even more of this other side, the place where demons, ideas and strange manifestations of another sort of reality, lurk, leap about, have fun and wreak havoc."

Amelia Johnstone, 2009

 

Amelia has exhibited in London in both solo and group shows and around the world with Le Gun. She is currently working on a book about two jealous sisters "Orange and Lemon"‚ who have a tendency to let heads roll; 'here comes the chopper to chop off your head'. And most recently has begun to research and make images for a new version of Hansel and Gretel with an Angela Carter twist.

 

Amelia will begin her PhD in the next twelve months looking further at the notion of 'A long time ago and far, far away'.

 

Email: ajohnstone@uwic.ac.uk

Tel: 02920 417085

Personal Link: www.ameliajohnstone.com

 

Other staff teaching on this programme:

 

Stuart Neil

Kevin Edge

Wendy Keay-Bright

Steve Thompson

Annie Grove-White

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