illustration educators Gathering November 21st 2024

Hello everyone we are really excited to announce the details of our first annual  iIllustration educators ‘Gathering’ event which will take place at the Royal College of Art’s Rausing Research & Innovation building in Battersea, London on Thursday the 21st of November 2024.

We are also very pleased to share with you that Dr Catrin Morgan from Parsons New School, Kunyalala (Kone) Ndlovu practitioner and founder of BCAS and Sinead Evans, from University of the Arts, London, will act as ‘facilitators’ for activities that include discussion, making and sharing, throughout the day. Catrin, Kone and Sinead have thoughtfully prepared these short, enlivening sessions and participants will have the opportunity to experience each one throughout the day..

The day will run from 10am – 4pm, including breaks and lunch.

Dr Catrin Morgan

Catrin Morgan is Assistant Professor in Illustration at Parsons School of Design. She is an Illustrator, artist and designer whose practice is concerned with mathematical, architectural and theoretical systems. Catrin has an MA in Communication Art and Design from the Royal College of Art in London and a PhD in Visual Communication also from the RCA.

 Morgan is the author of Phantom Settlements (Ditto Press, 2011), the Age of Wire and String, was published by Granta Books in 2013, Studies for Studies and Jerome’s study, a further collaboration with Max Porter published by Test Center Books in London.

 Catrin’s workshop will take Paolo Friere's ideas about liberatory teaching as it's jumping off point. Starting with Friere's assertion that teacher student relationships are 'narrative in character' we will think about the narratives that we bring with us to our teaching and the narratives that we create through our pedagogy. Emphasis will be placed on teaching in this phase of the pandemic and the tension between empowering students and institutional benchmarks for their learning,

Kunyalala Ndlovu

Kone Ndlovu is a polymath whose practice is concerned with democratization, critique and engagement of high culture through narrative. He is a writer, filmmaker, culture critic, visual artist, designer, archivist, educator, producer, historian, speaker and philosopher. 

 Ndlovu continues to work with the best in class brands and businesses globally in various capacities, including Nike, Reebok, adidas, Wimbledon, Sony, Levi’s and Lego. He has also worked for/with global cultural icons such as Kendrick Lamar, Stella McCartney, Warwick Thornton, Sean Tresvant, Ortis Deley and Ziwe.

His 2021 film, Two Pictures, created as a reflective response to the tragic events surrounding George Floyd, received special mentions at a number of film festivals and launched his film company Epigraph Films.

 In early 2023 he began a new educational practice named BCAS, as an amalgamation of his practice in both commercial creative, design and cultural spaces by building a curriculum that champions democratic high culture beyond the western gaze. 

 Kone’s workshop will introduce a number of provocations for open discussion; extrapolated from the annual theme of ‘who educates’ and developing questions that consider where the ‘centres’ for current critical debate might be, who owns these and how might they be challenged and more justly realigned?

Sinead Evans

Sinead Evans is currently working with ceramics, film and photography to explore how haptics work in images to illustrate shared experiences and memories. Her teaching practice is grounded in the position that illustration is a relational discipline, transdisciplinary and parasitic. She has previously contributed to publications such as Varoom, The Journal of Illustration and was a contributing editor of Limner Journal. She is a founding member of illustration educators, an organisation focussed on the communal development of illustration practices.

Previously she has taught on courses at Kingston University, Norwich University of the Arts, London Metropolitan University, University of the Creative Arts and the Royal College of Art.

Prices:

Full Price (non-membership) - £44.04
Members - £33.22
Independent practitioner - £25.08
Student - £19.67

Tickets can be purchased from eventbrite here and include refreshments and a sandwich lunch. Please contact us at mail@illustrationeducators.org if you have any questions.

Where:

RCA Rausing Research & Innovation Building
15 Parkgate Road
London
SW11 4NL