MA Illustration (Part-time)

Why study this course with LJMU?

If you are passionate about Illustration and you want to develop your voice as a maker and practitioner through using images, art, craft and print, drawing, painting, modelmaking or other means to tell stories, make statements and to create beautiful, engaging pictures and objects that have meaning and value to one person or to everyone, then the the MA Illustration programme at LJMU is for you.

About this course

MA Illustration is a place where you can develop, test and discuss your work within a community of dedicated staff and a highly motivated and diverse community of practitioners, and with the support of state-of-the-art technical facilities, space to work amongst like-minded, creative people from different backgrounds.

MA Illustration encourages active participation in a wide range of creative practices. The course modules and project briefs are designed to test and develop each student’s own distinct visual methodology leading towards a viable, sustainable professional practice. We explore and develop our visual work through practice, discussion and workshops that provide an entertaining, challenging and supportive sociable working environment.

Practice is supported utilising traditional and / or digital methods of making. These include drawing and printmaking, using lens and time-based media, 3D and 2D working with ideas and concepts that might finally be realised through exhibition, publication or any number of exciting new hybrid forms. Illustration is considered to be a function of an image making practice and as such can be viewed as a means to intervene in a wide range of conversations and subjects.

The process of disseminating or publishing your work is as important to us as the means of production. Audience and reception and the management of this is also a formative part of the wider circle of illustration practice. We recognise an expanded understanding of contemporary illustration through the exploration of relationships between illustrator as author, audience and context and the responsibility of being public actors engaging in social and cultural production.

We require candidates to have a 2:1 degree Illustration or a related discipline.

In exceptional circumstances applications by designers, illustrators and artists without sufficient academic qualifications but with the requisite aptitude and focus will be considered.