Hi! I’m one of the new Artists in Residence in the Illustration department. I’m originally from southeast London, but I’ve been living in Cornwall for the last three years, two of which were spent completing an MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice at Falmouth University. Moving to Edinburgh has proved to be a bit of a …
Illustration students at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Earlier in the year our 3rd year Illustrators paid a visit to 4 different primary schools in Cumbernauld, as part of Edinburgh International Book Festival’s outreach programme booked! that delivers creative workshops to communities across Scotland. The project saw the students working alongside the pupils, collaboratively illustrating stories that they wrote with the support of …
Pattern workshop with Joanna Srokol
Our MA students have just completed a pattern-making project led by Artist in Residence Joanna Sokol, who we introduced in an earlier blog post. Spread across 2 weeks students received an introduction to surface pattern design and were then asked to create a moodboard based on particular fashion or interior theme, which they had previously pulled …
Alumni news – Sarah Bissell
Over the last few months Sarah Bissell, an ECA alumni and one of last years artists in residence has been working with Edinburgh Collage Collective on an international submission of collaged based work themed around the subject of envelopes. Setup in 2016 by collage artist Rhed Fawell, the collective has been working on exhibitions and …
Alumni travels
This month three of last year’s Illustration graduates, Drew Starling, Felix Miall and Hari Connor, took part in the Stojkow Arts Residency Programme in rural Poland where they were able to do lots of drawing and gather inspiration for upcoming projects. In this week’s blog post Hari shares her experience and some of her lovely work created …
Degree Show 2017
We congratulate our 30 new graduates whose degree show is currently in full swing! Come to Evolution House / ECA to meet the artists and see the fruit of their work over the last year. There are a variety of things on display ranging from Graphic novels and picture books to printmaking, magazine design and …
Where are we?
Mapping the World This collaborative project is inspired by and closely linked to the current exhibition ‘You are Here. A journey through maps’. The students from first year Illustration and Graphic Design worked in small groups and were asked to challenge what they know about maps, how they are made and how we understand them. …
Table Work
We are very fortunate to have such a very creative and productive programme director here in the Illustration department and are delighted to showcase is work whenever we can. This week our blog features Jonathan Gibbs’ current exhibition at the Rowley Gallery in London. In my Scottish studio, I work on a table. Constructed in …
Jonathan Gibbs at Valvona & Crolla
May 4, 2017
MAKE SPACE
Back in March, artist and educator Brigid Collins came in to do a project with our second year students. The project involved approaching drawing and the creative process from a new angle. The creative process is an ecology that depends upon the full spectrum of our resources – Shaun Mc Niff Trust The Process (Shambhala, 1998) Habits …
