Geoff Grandfield

Panel Chair: Biography

Poster Presenter

Geoff Grandfield is an illustrator, educator and researcher, examining Illustration Practice and its agency for social imagination. His professional illustration work for editorial, book and design commissions from The Guardian, Penguin Books, The Folio Society, and The Tower of London explore visualising ideas and graphic narrative.

Since 2015 he has supervised over ten Illustration practice-based PhD research students at Kingston School of Art with four completions to date. All share a common ground of using Illustration Practice as a tool to examine diverse territory such as archive, place, education, interpretation and choreography. In 2022 he began a PhD titled ‘Illustrating Absence: pre-verbal separation trauma and formulating selfhood’. Asking how can Illustration Practice be used as a tool to communicate pre-verbal trauma?