Welcome to the Illustration Handbook for Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University. This handbook has been produced by the Illustration staff team to complement the CSAD Student Handbook and Cardiff Met Student Handbook which are available online: link A more comprehensive digital version of the Illustration Handbook is available on Blackboard. Full information about the structure and substance of the new scheme (Subject/Field/ Constellation) will be issued to L4 students separately.
With themes of obedience and disobedience, light and dark, now and then and lastly when; the work continues to explore fairy tales, and growing as my ‘Alice’ self, uncomfortable and constantly shifting perspective. I aim to champion the discipline of illustration; its importance, significance, its impact and purpose. I traverse morality through religion, folklore, fairy tale and fable examining growing at all stages: through childhood, teenage-hood, adulthood to old age; advocating a belief in the human imaginer inspiring a better existence which sits quite firmly in folk. I delight in toy and puppet theatre, in books and paper, and am dismayed and worried about the widespread use of social networking, the Internet, and the culture that seems to be ‘consuming itself’. My current practice hopes to enable the periscoped perspective, through teaching and storytelling; understanding the significance of interior monologue and illustration’s ventriloquistic abilities looking to the theatre of the page to puppetry, to the exertion of the mind through exercise and through surprising collaboration, illustration travels, it talks, its message must always be for the good of society and not lining the pockets of the devil. P*A*St (post apocalyptic storytelling)our puppet company looks back to look forward to mirror, via persicope the world and to warn it.