Another post showcasing the work of our graduating students. Look here at some sensitive drawings by (in order) Molly Soar, Mhairi Braden and Drew Walker. Enter a caption Apr 1, 2016
Degree show preview: Barney Mumby Price
The first in a series of posts giving you a sneak peak of work by our final year students in the run up to their degree show. Not necessarily their final exhibition work, just what we’ve papped on their desks while they were out getting lunch! First up: screen prints by Barney Mumby-Price. http://cargocollective.com/gomeda Mar 22, …
A Month on the Mile
Using a poem, A Month on The Mile: http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/month-mile by Edinburgh Makar Christine De Luca and Ingrid Murray, and an accompanying short film, made by Michelle Hanzelova that were commissioned byThe Royal Mile Business Association in 2015, 2nd year students of Illustration at ECA embarked on a project to illustrate aspects of the rich history …
Luchino Visconti: The Art of Decadence
This month we were proud to collaborate with the Filmhouse again on a new poster design project. Also working with the Italian Cultural Institute, 16 students from the Illustration department designed and exhibited posters for the entire oeuvre of Italian master Luchino Vusconti. Renowned in the mid 20th century as one of Italy’s most challenging …
Artists in Residence Ceramics Workshop
Last Wednesday we had the first part of a two day ceramics workshop in the Illustration department, led by two of our artists in residence, Rebecca Brown and Sarah Bissell. Working with stoneware clay, everyone handbuilt whatever they fancied – whether it was inspired by a larger project, a functional piece or by playing with …
Invisible Cities
Recently Artists in Residence Andrea Popyordanova and Sarah Bissel have been working with our first years to make a book to sell at the Fruitmarket book fair and Bookmarks which is happening at the ECA soon. Students were presented with a page from Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities and asked to create an illustration within a week representing …
Sly Mongoose – Music and Image
What is a song? What constitutes a musical piece? Third year students were recently asked to consider these questions in an experimental project brief named ‘Sly Mongoose’. Covering narrative and abstract drawing/printmaking, as well as an element of design and production, this brief asked students to select five thematically linked songs and create a package …
Scottish Poetry Library Collaboration
Last month our first year illustration and graphic design students set off to visit the Scottish Poetry Library. Staff at the library introduced us all to a range of poems dealing with many different themes. These included homelessness, war, migration and poverty. The students are now busy working together to create images, installations and objects …
Creative Material Play
Creative Material Play was an interactive workshop run by Eleni-Ira Panourgia and Katie Forrester, both PhD candidates at ECA, as part of Innovative Learning Week 2016. The workshop took place in the illustration studio and participants came to take part from many subjects across the university. The concept of the workshop was to provide various ‘raw’ …
Superheroes
During the past eight years we have run the Drawing Book projects with various primary schools in Edinburgh, as well as in Orkney. This has involved tackling a variety of themes in collaboration between art students and school pupils. Animal Characteristics, Feelings, Olympics, Sea Monsters, Opposites and School Meals are but a few of these, and …
