Key details
Time
- 4pm – 5pm
Location
- Online
Price
- Free
Who can attend
- Everyone
Type
- Webinar
In this conversation, The Graphic Novel: Visual Storytelling tutors Andrzej Klimowski and Miguel Angel Valdivia, alongside illustrator and lecturer Zoe Taylor, will discuss how illustration might establish a sense of intimacy, prolonging and intensifying our encounters with images.
Intimacies of the making process will be considered alongside affective elements of storytelling and style. They will explore the spaces where particularly close or intensive engagements with illustration are fostered.
Speakers
Zoe Taylor
Zoe is a London-based freelance illustrator. Her work has appeared internationally in various publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, Dazed and Confused and Le Gun. Zoe recently designed a series of images for the fashion line Marc by Marc Jacobs and she has collaborated on a number of projects with the fashion designer Luella Bartley. Between 2010 and 2012, Zoe illustrated”In the Cut”, a fashion column for AnOther Magazine’s digital platform, anothermag.com.
Zoe’s major interest is in exploring visual narrative and she is currently working on a series of comics and narrative-based drawings. Zoe’s academic research interests centre around theories of spectacle and the image, experimental narrative and visual narrative.
Zoe was awarded the Sheila Robinson Prize for Drawing in 2009 and an Oberon Book Award for illustrating Ice by Anna Kavan in 2008.
Zoe has been a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art and at Norwich University College of the Arts. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2009.
Professor Emeritus Andrzej Klimowski
Andrzej Klimowski, who was born to Polish parents in London, retains strong links with Poland, where he lived and worked for some years. During his career he has made films and written graphic novels. He has designed theatre posters and book covers for leading publishers. He was head of Illustration at the Royal College of Art for many years, and is now Professor Emeritus. He continues to produce graphic novels with his wife Danusia Schejbal, and works in graphics and produces illustrations. He also makes films. His work has been the subject of a retrospective at the National Theatre, London.
He currently runs a summer course at the Royal College of Art, The Graphic Novel: Visual Storytelling.
Miguel Angel Valdivia
Migeul Angel Valdivia is an illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator based in Italy, working between drawing, storytelling, and teaching. He is currently teach Comics and Visual Storytelling at NABA in Rome. He studied Illustration at the Royal College of Art in London, where he later worked as a visiting lecturer in the Visual Communication programme. He continue to collaborate with the Royal College of Art through summer courses in visual storytelling and graphic narrative, co-teaching with Andrzej Klimowski.
Alongside his artistic practice, He work with international students through portfolio tutoring, mentoring, and workshops, supporting applications to art schools in the UK and Europe. His teaching focuses on illustration, comics, visual communication, and visual storytelling, both in group teaching and one-to-one tutorials.
In the series
Free online talks led by RCA academic faculty featuring notable guest speakers with industry specialism and leading professional practitioners in their field.
