Geoff Grandfield
Course Director BA Illustration & Animation
Course Director of BA Illustration and Animation and Principal lecturer at Kingston University.
He has been an external examiner at Camberwell School of Art, University of Wales Cardiff, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Derby and University of Brighton. His early training at the Royal College of Art in MA Illustration was followed by winning the Folio Society first prize for Illustration in 1987, and he has been a full member and council member of the Association of Illustrators (AOI).
His illustration practice has extensive experience working for a large number of national and international clients:
Editorial work for newspapers – The Independent, The Guardian, The Times, Times Higher Educational Supplement, The L A Times – and magazines- The Guardian Weekend Magazine and Radio Times.
The boxed sets of novels and short stories of Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler for the Folio Society and other projects have won a number of awards; D&AD yellow pencils, the V&A illustration awards, AOI book and editorial categories, Creative Review, Readers Digest and Waterstones.
His current research interests are in graphic narratives for mass audiences.
Jake Abrams
Principal Lecturer – BA Illustration & Animation
Jake Abrams MA is a National Art Design and Media Teaching Fellow . He is a principal Lecturer in Illustration and Animation at Kingston and has taught widely nationally and internationally.. He is currently the Level 5 BA tutor.
Jake Abrams work has shown in galleries at both national and international venues: Oslo, Norway; Museum of Botswana; The SouthBank Centre , London. He is an active practisioner working for a wide range of Illustration clients. He recently completed the book cover illustrations for Roddy Doyle’s ‘Bullfighting’ and Julian Barnes’ ‘Flaubert’s Parrot’. He has worked for National Newspapers such as The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, The Financial Times and The Times. He has worked for a wide variety of magazines in the UK and overseas. He has done illustrations for Creative Review, Blueprint, GQ , Director and CNN .
A solo exhibition of original printmaking and investigation of innovative typographic form, Z-A, was premiered at the Galleri Brenneriet in Oslo and then shown at Kingston University. He also had a solo exhibition at The Southbank Centre, London in 2009 showing the work he completed as part of his Artist Residency at The London Sinfonietta .
Mark Harris
Senior Lecturer – BA Illustration & Animation
Mark Harris is 0.6 Senior Lecturer on the Illustration and Animation B.A Hons Degree at Kingston University. He is also a Visiting Lecturer on the Fine Art BA at Norwich University College of the Arts, Printmaking MA at Camberwell College of the Arts, and Printmaking MA at the Royal College of Art. His teaching of the subject of Print across BA and MA courses in both Design and Fine Art courses has consistently informed his own practise.
His current research is primarily concerned with the printed image, and the journey it takes from original source to mass reproduction and then over time to obscurity. He has recently worked with collections of books that have been withdrawn from Libraries that have been identified through their lending systems as unpopular or outdated and taken out of circulation. These books have become sources for Harris to edit, re-categorize and eventually collage with. Some of these collages are then translated back into the print process either as small editions or on mass through commercial processes, raising questions of value/worth associated with image and process.
His collages depict architectural interventions in the landscape, ruins, or defences that suggest past histories or possible futures.
Rebecca Davies
Senior Lecturer – BA Illustration & Animation
Rebecca Davies is an artist, educator, writer and curator, living and working in London. Her work has always been intrinsically linked to the materials and processes she uses to communicate her ideas. The material itself often becomes an active component and a vital constraint upon the process of making her ideas tangible. The process in its own right is a way of controlling her working method, which has stemmed from her background in Printmaking. This interest in the material itself has grown from print on paper to printing onto aluminium cladding to making large scales works printed onto glass within an architectural context. She now combines her interests in design, material and communication and collaborates on projects that respond to specific cultural or physical environments.
Martina Bramkamp
Senior Lecturer – BA Illustration & Animation
Martina studied Visual Communication Design with emphasis on Illustration and Animation in Germany before graduating from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Animation. She lives in London and works in commercial film making as a freelance animator, illustrator, storyboard artist and lomographer. Her animations have been presented worldwide at International Festivals and her illustration work, moving image installations; photography and sculptures were exhibited in Britain and Germany.
Martina teaches as a Senior Lecturer on the BA Illustration/Animation Course at Kingston University. She was appointed Professor for Trickfilm at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Germany in 2010.
Jane Webster
Senior Lecturer – BA Illustration & Animation
A Graduate of Kingston University’s Illustration B.A (hons). Jane Webster co-ordinates and delivers the year 3, study experience. She concentrates upon the importance of the student’s contextualisation of the potential and the range that the illustration industry has to offer. Jane Webster’s lifestyle, food, and architectural illustration is commissioned nationally and internationally, her hand drawn, vigorous reportage illustration celebrates the food and travel industry, with an additional graphic twist, evoking a fresh visual sense of both geographic and personal place. Jane’s work is utilised across Editorial design, Advertising and Branding and packaging. She is represented by the renowned ‘Debutart’ Agency. Her wide range of clients include The Times, The Telegraph and The Independent Newspapers, The Conde-Nast Group, Euro RSCG, Waitrose, ASDA, Cedar Communications and many others. She has recently undertaken artist’s residencies with The Welsh National Opera, and is working with the Natural History Museum depicting the work they undertake behind the scenes.
Paddy Molloy
Senior Lecturer – BA Illustration & Animation
Paddy constructs evocative, visceral and imaginative images that are often found through dialogue and collaboration. He has created images and experiences that range from the printed, to the projected, to the performed on both a national and international platform.
http://www.paddymolloy.com
Chris Shepherd
Senior Lecturer – BA Illustration & Animation
Chris Shepherd is a multi award winning director, writer and producer.
From is award winning directoral debut for Channel 4 in 1997 with The Broken Jaw. Chris has worked on many TV Shows and commercials. Including animation for Chris Morris’s Nathan Barley and classic World Stareout Championship sketches for BBC’s Big Train.
His director/writer his credits include, a ten part series for Channel 4 called People’s Britain (2000 – BAA winner), acclaimed short Dad’s Dead (2003 – 25 awards including 2 BAA’s, BIFA and BAFTA nomination). Comedy collaboration with David Shrigley Who I Am And What I Want (2005 BAA winner). Silence Is Golden (2006 TCM winner) and his latest BBC drama Bad Night for the Blues (2010). Winner of the Canal+ International Award at Clermont International Film Festival 2011.As well as curating and producing the first two seasons of animated films for Channel 4’s Random Acts. Chris is currently directing a new short with Autour De Minuit for Canal+ and CNC called The Ringer.
Paul Wright
Senior Lecturer – BA Illustration & Animation
Paul Wright is a highly successful maritime painter and illustrator. His work is represented in the Permanent Collection of the Royal Navy Museum, Portsmouth, and in private collections in the U.K., Stuttgart, Helsinki, Sydney, Adelaide, Zimbabwe, Tokyo, Cape Town, New York, St. Petersburg, Santa Fe, Fairfield Conn., San Francisco and Dallas.
Paul Jenkins
Senior Lecturer – BA Illustration & Animation
I discovered photography while working as a cartographic draughtsman.
Attended art school and beyond. Set up a freelance practice while working as a photographic and design assistant. Also involved at the development stages, forming what is now called, the Association of Photographers.
Moved to the British Museum / Library as an in-house photographer working studio / location / darkroom.
Continued to work freelance, publications / books. Formed three photographic enterprises, developing them into limited companies – film & photography hire studios, and an independent international photographic school.
Became company director of all three organisations. continued freelance work, books / publications. Began teaching on a number of other art school photographic courses, (various academic levels).Continued with freelance work. books / publications
Moved to part time teaching in higher education. Transfered to full time senior lecturer in photography, in higher education.I continue to use photography as a means of exploring the philosophy of change,
Currently developing photography ideas linked with the world wide “slow movement”, (inc slow design / slow architecture / slow media / slow money / slow food etc).Using small architectural developments to define our need / expectations for change, reconsidering the way we think, live and build.