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SYMPOSIUM
The Human Illustrator
Mon 22 June 2026, 9:30 – 14:30
Camberwell, Wilson Road
What is the role of the human illustrator in an age of technological change? Join us for presentations and discussion at our friendly in-person symposium on Monday 22 June 2026 at Camberwell (UAL).
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Past events and meetings – 2025/26
Sifting through Shadows
(Reading Group, session 2)
Tue 21 April 2026, 16:30 – 18:00
Camberwell, Wilson Road BB01
For the second meeting of our Reading Group Haiqi Yang invited us to read Jaleen Grove’s recent article ‘What is illustration? A shadowy definition for illustration research’ published in The Journal of Illustration. Read more
Talk and discussion:
Collaboration in illustration research
Tue 10 Feb 2026, 16:30 – 18:00,
LCC, Elephant & Castle, Lecture Theatre C
With presentations by Juliet Sugg, Yu Feng and Jayoon Choi. Chair: Luise Vormittag.
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Paranoid Reading
(Reading Group, session 1)
Tue 2 Dec 2025, 16:30 – 18:00
Camberwell, Wilson Road BB01
In our first Reading Group session we read Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s seminal essay Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading (2003), the perfect text to initiate a discussion about how and why we read in illustration research.
Hosted by Esther McManus.
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Past events and meetings – 2024/25
Doodling, sketching, colouring in… What are illustration research methods?
19 June 2025, LCC
With presentations by Gabrielle Cariolle, Haiqi Yang, Miriam Elgon, Yuqiao Zheng. Chair: Paul Jackson.
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Whose vision, whose voices?
Refugee narratives in graphic communication design
11 Feb 2025, LCC
With presentations by Hayfaa Al-Chalabi and Mathilda Della Torre. Chair: Nina Mickwitz
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From the Association of Illustrators’ archive
25 Nov 2024, Camberwell
With presentations by Derek Brazell (AOI), Adrian Shaughnessy, John O’Reilly and Olivia Ahmad.
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Past events and meetings – 2023/24
Research introductions: Paul Jackson and Luise Vormittag
11 June 2024, LCC
An introduction to Paul Jackson’s ongoing PhD research on editorial illustration and its processes of world-making, and Luise Vormittag’s project Colouring In.
Research introductions: Ian Horton and Rachel Emily Taylor
16 April 2024, Camberwell
An introduction to Ian Horton’s ongoing work in the Hard Werken archives in Rotterdam, and Rachel Emily Taylor’s recently published monograph Illustration & Heritage (2024).