ILLUSTRATION & HERITAGE: SHARING HISTORIES TO DRAW OUT FUTURES.

 

On 22 and 23 November 2024, the Illustration Programme at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL) hosted the 14th International Illustration Research Symposium, at Chelsea College of Arts, London

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Speakers and audience considered the questions: How can we practise heritage-making with or through illustration? They explored active processes of heritage-making through digital, institutional, and communal archives and collections, illustrative and co-illustrative methodologies, the making and giving of a ‘voice’, understanding and communicating artefacts, and looking at architecture as a historical material, among other practices.

 

 The symposium considered principles including inheritance, displacement, collective memory, subjectivity, and plurality. How do contemporary illustrators participate in historical narratives and give voice to people and communities — remembered, obscured, and imagined — through their work?

 

keynote papers were from

Dan Hicks, curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford,

Yeni Kim, illustrator and Associate Professor at Hongik University, 

Chris Lee, graphic designer and Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute,

 

panels presentations were on heritage-making as a form of knowledge production, illustration, AR, architecture, and materiality.

 

Speakers include English Heritage, Royal Museums Greenwich, Lamya Sadiq, Catrin Morgan, Rudy Loewe, Amy Goodwin, Jaleen Grove.

 

The symposium is curated in response to Illustration and Heritage, by Rachel Emily Taylor, published in 2024 by Bloomsbury Press. It is organised in partnership with Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, the Association of Illustrators, and Illustration Educators.