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Staff details

 

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  • Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Illustration, School of Art & Media (Faculty of Arts)
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  • Telephone: +44 (0)1752 585252
  • Facsimile: +44 (0)1392 475012
  • Email: J.Davies@plymouth.ac.uk


Qualifications & background

MA Illustration -Kingston University 1998

PGCE Post-Compulsory Education -Greenwich University 1990


BA Hons Grpahic Design- Maidstone College of art and design

 

Professional membership

Member of the AOI

ADM-HEA reference group

Editorial board member-Varoom magazine
 

Roles on external bodies

Council member for the Association of Illustrators 1998-2003

Editorial Board member "Varoom "magazine -Published three times yearly from 2005

Co-Chair and convenor of The network of Illustrators and Researchers in Illustration-UCE 2002 


Teaching interests

Drawing

Illustration

Professional practice-employability and enterprise in illustration

 

Staff serving as external examiners

External examiner BA(hons)Illustration , Hereford College of Art and Design 2003-2007

External validation panel member -MA Authorial Practice -Falmouth College of Art 2002 


Research interests

Drawing and practice in contemporary Illustration
The process of creating illustration
The relationship between theory and practice within illustration
 

UoP Research group membership

Message 

Other research

 

Creative practice & artistic projects

Extensive experience working as a freelance illustrator with high profile clients in publishing,design and advertising over 22 years.Inclusion in many selected exhibitions including since 2000 London,USA,Italy and Korea.

Included in several editions of Images-Best of British Illustration including 2008

Prize winner of Korean Illustration competition

Creative Flair Judge-2005

Currently working on two proposed publications with co-researcher and editor derek Brazell

"Illustration Enterprise" to be published AVA 2013

 and "Illustration Meaning and Message) to be published A+CBlack 2013


Leader of Proof of concept "Understanding Diabetes" collaborative research project with Portsmouth Hospitals Trust

Instigator and academics inputs co-ordinator of Varoom-lab international research cluster

 


Publications

Making Great illustration published A+C Black UK 2011 USA 2012

Many publications as a freelance illustrator and reviewer of publications on the subject of contemporary practice

Author/Illustrator of "Dudley-Top Dog" published UK and USA by Scholastic publishers ,2003

Joint editor of "Drawing -The Process "published by Intellect 2005

Co-curator of nationally touring exhibition and joint creator of cd ( published by Kingston University 2005) "Drawing-The Process"

Founder and Editor -in -Chief of "The Journal" published bi-monthly by The Association of Illustrators until 2005

Joint founder of Varoom magazine published by the AOI since 2006

Co-editor/author of two chapters in"Guide to Success"  published by the AOI 2011


Topsy and Tim-an interview with Jean Adamson, The AOI magazine, 1999

 

-More than a million pound prize draw-illustration of the Reader’s Digest The  AOI magazine, 1999

 

-Writer of introduction to Images Best of British Illustration annual 2000

 

-An Interview with Brad Holland, Issue 6 ,Varoom 2008

 

-The House that Quentin built-a profile of Quentin Blake, Issue 11, Varoom 2009

 

-Review of Line, reportage, published by APU, Cambridge 2000

 

-Review of The Education of an Illustrator, Heller/ Arisman Allsworth Press, New York, 2000

 

-Review of Line, children’s books, published by APU, Cambridge 2001

-Review Illustration101 Streetwise Tactics for Surviving as a Freelance Scratchmann, Max, 2006

 

-Review of Opening of Lowry Centre, Manchester, 2002 ,published the AOI website,April 2002

 

-Review of Children's Books, a major guide to the practice and theory of the art form Salisbury, Martin, A&C Black UK, 2003

 

-Review of The fundamentals of Illustration, Lawrence Zeegan, AVA,2005

 

-Review of Illustration Now! 150 Illustrators. Editor J.Weidemann, Taschen ,2006

 

Conferences organised

Joint organisor of Drawing -The Process, Kingston University 2003 


Other academic activities
Member of National Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Art , Design and Media focus group

Peer review of papers and proposals for ADM-HEA