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The Big Draw: Falmouth University

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Last week saw the first Big Draw event organised by the illustration department at Falmouth University. The week had been meticulously organised by  senior lecturer Linda Scott and involved workshops from MA student Poppy Robinson and Illustration lecturer Nick Mott and a daily reading from Moby dick by fine art lecturer Gillian Wylde.

The theme, ‘maritime’ was inspired by Linda’s visit to the library archives of the fantastic Maritime Museum in Falmouth who kindly allowed us to source material to kick start visual responses to the theme. The sessions were augmented with maritime sounds and projected images and films related to the core theme and was also filmed by Film students.

Students from a number of courses took part during the week as did pupils from Helston Community College and Treviglas Community College. All in all it was a great experience for us to host and hopefully for those that took part. Many thanks to everyone who made it happen including Nick Mott, Poppy Robinson, Gillian Wylde, The Maritime Museum, The Big Draw, the Falmouth School of Art and in particular Linda Scott.

Here are a selection of images from the week….

The Big Draw Falmouth University
The Project Space during the Big Draw week
Students taking part in the Big Draw
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Students taking part in the Big Draw
Nick Mott’s Drawing Games Club
Students taking part in the Big Draw
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The Treasure Chest…
Students taking part in the Big Draw
Students taking part in the Big Draw
Students taking part in the Big Draw
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Students taking part in the Big Draw
Students taking part in the Big Draw
Students taking part in the Big Draw
The Treasure Chest…
Students taking part in the Big Draw
‘JAWS!’
Work filling the walls
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Experimental film
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The end of the day
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THE BIG DRAW: Every Drawing Tells a Story

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Throughout the whole of next week the Illustration department at Falmouth University will be hosting a collaborative drawing event as part of the national ‘Big Draw’ initiative. The week will centre around  an open ended experimental drawing project that is based on a maritime theme. The sessions will include audio visual elements, performance, a ‘drawing games club’ and will culminate in a private view at the end of the week. Many thanks to The Falmouth Maritime Museum for access to their library archives and to Linda Scott for organising the event.

The sessions are open to all Falmouth students. Any members of the public that are interested are asked to contact Nigel Owen (nowen@falmouth.ac.uk) for further details….

New Academic Year Starts Here!

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After a long (wet) summer break, here we are at the start of a new academic year waiting to welcome a new intake of 1st year BA students and also MA students to start their Illustration studies at FAlmouth University. This comes a week after celebrating with the class of 2015 at their fantastic graduation ceremony, overseen by our new Chancellor, Dawn French. I hope to get more photographs of this event soon.

Staff are looking forward to welcoming the new intake during freshers (induction) week and 2nd and 3rd year students a week later.

This year importantly sees The Illustration Subject area at Falmouth University taking up residence throughout all three floors of the Fox 2 building at the Woodlane Campus. This is important as it not only brings the MA and BA courses together geographically for the first time but also creates more space and light within the studios. The studios are already looking good and are ready to go. Work, including the installation of new windows hopefully will be totally complete by the end of October 2015.

Some great news came in from one of our alumni, Charlotte Orr, who is confirmed as having won the ‘Public Realm’ category under New Talent in the AOI World Illustration Awards. Well done Charlotte!

New Designers Exhibition & Private View

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Mark and Keryn have done a great job of putting up, the New Designers Exhibition, the 2nd of our two graduate showcases in London this year. This is physically a considerably bigger show than the D&AD exhibition and includes the majority of this year’s Falmouth Illustration graduating students. This year the students have done a great job of preparing their boards for the exhibition with the help of Cally back in Falmouth. The final show is a credit to the effort that everyone (staff and students) have put in this year. The Private view kicked off at 6pm and before long there was a healthy number of people gathering around the Falmouth stand. In attendance was Ginny Button, Director of the Falmouth School of Art while industry visitors included Sheri Gee from the Folio Society and Louise Power from Walker books amongst others. Also paying a visit during the evening was recent Falmouth Illustration alumni Will Grill, who last week was awarded the Kate Greenaway Gold Medal for his book ‘Shackleton’s Journey’, a project that he began while a student at Falmouth. Here are some pictures from the night….

Entrance to Business design centre
Will Grill
Falmouth Students
Ginny Button and illustration staff talking to Will Grill
The ND Private View
The ND Private View
The ND Private View
The ND Private View
The ND Private View
Falmouth Students
Mark Foreman talking to students
Panorama of the final stand
The finished stand
The finished stand

Falmouth Illustration at New Blood Graduate Showcase

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The D&AD New Blood Graduate Showcase kicked off with its private view last night. Nigel and Sue set the show up earlier in the day in what can only be described as tropical conditions. The Falmouth stand was up and looking good just after lunch giving us a chance to have a look at other stands. The overall standard is very good this year with what seems like more illustration on show than in previous years.

The private View kicked off at 6pm and almost immediately industry clients began to show interest in the work on show by Falmouth students. The contact book has continued to fill up today also. Well done to all the students that attended for their professionalism.

Now we move onto tonight’s New Designers Private View. Mark and Keryn have worked hard to put up a fantastic exhibition at the Business Design Center in Islington. We are all looking forward to catching up with this year’s students one final time. Here are photos from the New Blood PV with more from tonight’s New Designers PV to follow tomorrow….

Detail of show
The final show
Private View Night
Detail of show
Private view night
Detaial of show
Detail of show
Detail of show

Falmouth Illustration Degree Show 2015

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The Falmouth Illustration Degree show 2015 starts this Friday (5th June) with a Private view in the evening between 6-9pm. The best work from this year’s third years will be on display on the top floor of the Fox 2 Building at Woodlane prior to it going up to the two major London graduate shows New Designers and D&AD New Blood. This will be one of the first chances to glimpse the new generation of talented illustrators from the Falmouth course and also purchase your own copy of our newly published ‘Illustrated Book of Quotes & Sayings: Vol 10’. Some student work will be on sale at the show too. The show will be open from 10am on Friday 5th June and will end at 4pm on Monday 8th June. Don’t miss it! If you are in Falmouth on the Friday please feel free to attend the Private View.

Falmouth Illustration Student Business Cards 2015

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Here are a sample of business cards from Falmouth Illustration students. Their degree show will be open to the public on Friday 5th of June in Falmouth. The majority of students will also be showing work at their year’s New Designers Graduate Showcase at the business design centre in London between the 1st – 4th July 2015. Apologies to any Falmouth student whose card is not on this post. Please get your card to Nigel and he will post it on this blog ASAP….

Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards
Falmouth Illustration business cards

Falmouth illustration Degree show goes up.

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The third years have been working hard to hang their final degree shows just prior to handing the work in for assessment. All are looking forward to the Private. View on Friday 5th June….

Degree show set up in progress
Degree show set up in progress
Degree show set up in progress

Falmouth Illustration’s Reportage 2015 Competition Judging Complete!

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Many thanks to all students that entered this year’s ‘Reportage’ competition. 16 students across the School of Art entered this year and the standard was very good. Five members of the illustration teaching team judged the work that was submitted on Monday afternoon. The winner and runner up are now known and will be announced on the evening of the degree show private view (Friday 5th June).

Here is a sample of the work submitted this year….

Piera Cirefice
Julia De Graaf
Stefan Tiburcio
Annie Wire
Ella Southwell
emma abel
Georgina Godson
Lucy Haslam
Padhraic Mullholland
Rachael Jenkins
Rachel Porter
Rebecca Danning
Robyn Stock
Seekan Hui
sophie wright

The studio is cleared in preparation for the degree show

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Amazingly its that time of year again! The 3rd year students have only been back in Falmouth for little over a week since their successful study trip to New York and London but now attention has shifted towards preparing their work to submit for hand in. The studios have been cleared and the display boards erected.

1st and 2nd years are also working hard to put the finishing touches to their work before the hand in deadlines. They also are preparing for their own end of year shows during the final week of term. Good Luck to all of our students for their upcoming assessments.

It’s really great to hear that some of our ex students are doing well professionally, David Plant and Owen Davey have both recently produced books for Nobrow’s young audience off shoot Flying Eye Books, while Lauren Humphrey has recently been published in the New York Times.

The Falmouth School of Art Degree Show 2015 will be running from 5th June – 9th June.