Ashley Potter

Mr Ashley Potter

Job title: Lecturer in Illustration, School of Art & Media (Faculty of Arts)
Address: Room 407, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Postal address: Room 407, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752585233
Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 585233
Email: A.J.Potter@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

Programme Leader BA Illustration

Qualifications & background

BA (Hons) Graphic Design - St Martin’s School of Art

Professional activities:-

freelance artist / illustrator / art director / animation director

founder of illustration studio - ‘the dairy studios’ <www.thedairystudios.co.uk>

member of multi-media artists’ co-operative - ‘colony’ - <www.colonymedia.com>

Research activities:-

Exhibitions

Cardiff Animation festival - presentation exhibition of artwork from ‘The Miracle Maker’

Association of Photographers Gallery- ‘Camera to canvas’ group show.

Association of Illustrators exhibitions,London and touring nationally.

‘The Artist as Illustrator’ Central Saint Martins, London.

‘London’ Artbank Gallery, London.

Beijing International High Tech Show,Beijing.

‘Smau Digital Conference’, Milan

'50 Years of Penguin' Clarendon Gallery, London

Torture Gardens, London

Awards

Emmy - outstanding achievement - ‘The Canterbury Tales - The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’

Bafta - best short animated film - ‘The Canterbury Tales’

Academy Award nomination - ‘The Canterbury Tales’

Advertising Creative Circle - Silver

Images 9 Best of British Illustration 'Best Newcomer '

Images 18 Best of British Illustration 'Creative Review Award'

Images 31 Best of British Illustration Silver “Advertising section”

Professional membership

Association of Illustrators

Teaching interests
Specifically interested in narrative forms and experimental cross-overs between disciplines and approaches.

Research interests

It was roadside memorials, but now......

it has moved onto 'Communities' and their narratives.

UoP Research group membership

Message

Other research

Creative practice & artistic projects

various editorial and design commissions as freelance illustrator working for national and international clients.

art director on various television commercials - national and international including:-

McVitie's / Solpadeine / the Post Office / Kraft foods / Orange / Carling / Martini

art director on music videos:-

Mary Black / Erasure / Pierre Boulez

art director and background artist on long form animation:-

'Soho Square' - a BAFTA nominated experimental mix of dance, acting and painting

'Carmen' - a 20 minute opera

'The Miracle Maker’ - an animated feature film about the life of Christ

'Care International' - an animated film charting the history of the charity

co-designer and art director

‘Virtual Runner’ – Soho post-production company Framestore’s web and in-house interactive game

director and designer

‘The Canterbury Tales - The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’ - BAFTA 'Best Short Animation' & EMMY 'Background Artist'

‘The Union Game’ - television title sequence for BBC Wales

‘Boomerang’ - television station idents for Cartoon Network

Publications

Lürtzer Archive Annual

Association of Illustrators Annuals - Images (various years)

European Illustration Annuals (various years)

3x3 Ill08

'Picture This:The Artist as Illustrator' editor Sylvia Backemeyer, Herbert Press

Additional information

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