How can illustrators ‘give voice’ to people and communities? How do heritage practitioners utilise the practice of illustration? How is the process of heritage-making practised by illustrators around the world?
How can illustrators ‘give voice’ to people and communities? How do heritage practitioners utilise the practice of illustration? How is the process of heritage-making practised by illustrators around the world?

Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures

14th International Illustration Research Symposium

On 22 and 23 November 2024, the symposium will explore the role illustration plays in cultural heritage

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How can we practise heritage-making with or through illustration?

On 22 and 23 November 2024, the Illustration Programme at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL), will host the 14th International Illustration Research Symposium, Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures. The symposium will explore 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 14th Illustration Research Symposium will be held at UAL’s Chelsea College of Arts and will include panels, papers, and posters by practitioners and researchers from the fields of illustration, heritage, architecture, anthropology, and more. The symposium will consider 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?

The 14th Illustration Research Symposium will include keynotes from Dan Hicks, curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Yeni Kim, illustrator and Associate Professor at Hongik University, and Chris Lee, graphic designer and Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute, as well as panels 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.