Falmouth Illustration Festival 2022 – Illustration Staff Exhibition

Falmouth Illustration Festival 2022 – Illustration Staff Exhibition

 

During the Falmouth Illustration Festival members of staff held and exhibition of their work to give an insight either their professional practice or personal creativity. Exhibitors include; Georgie Bennet, Keryn Bibby, Graham Black, Sue Clarke, Cally Gibson, Tilly McKerrow, Nick Mott, Chris Odgers, Mat Osmond, Nigel Owen, Linda Scott and Emilia Wharfe. The exhibition was supported by a Collaborative Zine project run by Hugh Frost with the theme ‘Passages’.

Falmouth Illustration Festival – Liminal Spaces Workshop by Judith Chamizo

Falmouth Illustration Festival – Liminal Spaces Workshop by Judith Chamizo


“Illustrations don’t have to end at the edge of their frame; let’s experiment! We will look together for ways of using panels, borders, composition and framing as narrative device.”

Judith Chamizo focussed on windows as liminal spaces during her workshop as part of the Falmouth Illustration Festival.

Falmouth Illustration Festival – Teresa Clarke talked about her practice followed by a workshop exploring the creative possibilities afforded by ‘happy accidents’.

Falmouth Illustration Festival – Teresa Clarke talked about her practice followed by a workshop exploring the creative possibilities afforded by ‘happy accidents’.

Illustrator and MA Online Illustration alumni Teresa Clark delivered a talk about her personal practice – discussing how found materials and mixed media practice can act as a meeting point/liminal space. After the talk, Teresa ran a workshop to explore the creative possibilities afforded by ‘happy accidents’, helping to free imagination and encourage students to relish the accidental and to respond to the unpredictable

Falmouth Illustration Festival – Collaborative Map Mapping Workshop

Falmouth Illustration Festival – Collaborative Map Mapping Workshop

 

A Monoprint Workshop. During the Falmouth Illustration Festival, Lecturer, Rose Forshall worked with students in small groups to create maps in monoprint and collage using the theme of ‘passages’ as a starting point. The session explored collaborative practices, monoprint techniques, maps as a visual method of communication

 

Level 2 Study Visit

Level 2 Study Visit

Last week Linda Scott and Julie Ann Monks travelled up to Bristol with a group of Year 2 Illustration students for the first study trip for 2 years. Working closely with our co-ordinator and Falmouth Alumni Dave Bain, who graduated in 2005, our students participated in studio visits to Hamilton House in Stokes Croft, Dove St and Centre Space studios. Successful practising illustrators including Harriet Lee Merrion, who recently illustrated a Folio Society publication of Margaret Attwood’s ‘Oryx and Crake’, Children’s book illustrator Paula Bowles and others spoke with enthusiasm to students about their journey from graduation to the present day, with excellent advice regarding their process. Presentations from other illustrators included Dave Bain’s forays into designing and painting murals at hospitals and public spaces in the city, Paula Bowles’ stylistic transition over the years and the refreshing work of Molly Fairhurst, very much a rising star in the world of illustration who also delivered an inspiring animation workshop.

The week culminated in a pop- up exhibition in the Hotwells area of Bristol , with most students exhibiting for the first time , on the timely theme of ‘Liberation’ . A showreel of animations from Molly’s workshop, was also projected onto the walls of the gallery.