The Human Illustrator:
Reconfiguring roles in an age of technological change
Mon 22 June 2026 | 9:30 – 14:30
Technological innovation is dramatically reconfiguring illustration practice and its industries, challenging established working relationships, patterns and methods. These technologies are offering us new ways to ideate, experiment with and generate visual material, but they are also increasingly able to replace our labour altogether.
This scenario presents a compelling opportunity for us to redefine and reassert the roles and responsibilities of human illustrators. How might we articulate what we are able to offer a project, a client, or society more generally? How might we advocate for ourselves as visual communicators? Might this scenario be an opportunity for us to broaden our remit? What could this entail?
Join us for presentations and discussion at our friendly in-person symposium at Wilson Road, the dedicated space for illustration at Camberwell.
The event will be an opportunity to meet and network with illustration researchers across UAL. Everyone welcome!
Monday 22 June 2026 | 9:30 – 14:30
Camberwell College of Arts
1-4 Wilson Road
London SE5 8LU
Refreshments will be provided.
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PROGRAMME:
9:30 – 9:50
arrive, coffee, tea
9:50 – 10:00
Welcome from ISH
10:00 – 11:15
Panel 1: PLACE BASED
Chair: Haiqi Yang
Maisie Noble:
Chthonic Ones: Beings of the Earth
Becky Moriarty:
The Experiment: An Unplanned Day Trip
Gabrielle Cariolle:
Gabrielle Tries to Become the Allotment Sorceress
Logan Scott:
Holding Time: Sequential Drawing and More-than-Human Temporality
[break]
11:30 – 12:30
Panel 2: METHODS
Chair: Esther McManus
Darryl Clifton:
Hot Oddities Now
Gareth Proskourine-Barnett:
Testing the Three-Part Method: Parasitic and Mycelial Practices in Design Research
Yiqi Zhang:
Grappling with Drawing Technologies in Practice-Led Research: A Comics-Maker-Researcher-Illustrator’s Perspective
12:30 – 13:15 | LUNCH
13:15 – 14:15
Panel 3: EXPERIENCE
Chair: Jhinuk Sarkar
HyunJin Seo:
The Human Illustrator as Translator: Mediating Silence and Absence
Amberlee Green:
The intersectional illustrator as a multi-disciplinary tool: drawing what we know
Wei Ting Chia:
Games, Illustration and Playing for the Future
ENDS 14:30