News - Double Celebration for MA Illustration
University College Falmouth press release
As the new academic year gets underway, there is already a double cause for celebration for the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice course at University College Falmouth.
Charles Temujin Doran has been announced as one of five award winners of the European League of Institutes of the Arts E3'film project, Languages through Lenses, as part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
Tem beat off stiff competition from students at art schools across Europe to be shortlisted along with 27 other students earlier this year. They each received a grant of 7500? (about £6,500) to complete their film, and the final winners were then chosen by an international jury who were impressed by the high artistic and technical quality of the films.
Tem's film, Smile, was launched during the Prix Europa Festival in Berlin last month and has been awarded a viral marketing strategy and distribution deal. Tem also won £750 in the Best New Talent category at the Cheltenham Illustration Awards, where Course Leader, Steve Braund, was a guest speaker at the Independent Line symposium, exploring autonomies and alternatives for the new generation of narrative illustrators. Tem is currently working at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg on a six-week internship.
Whilst Tem was taking Berlin by storm, the launch of Coasters, an illustrated anthology of poetry, took place a little closer to home. The result of a successful collaboration between MA Illustration: Authorial Practice students and The Poetry Society's Brighton Stanza, Coasters is published by Atlantic Press and edited by UCF MA Professional Writing graduate, Elaine Ruth White.
"Whether collaborating with publishers and poets, or participating in major international awards schemes, students of Falmouth's MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice are making their presence felt," said Course Leader, Steve Braund. "Our students are helping to re-shape future illustration practice in response to a rapidly changing world. They are playing a vital role in re-considering what illustration can be both within the commercial mainstream and beyond. By exploring more autonomous and independent modes of working practice they are helping to redefine the exciting discipline of illustration."
For further information about MA Illustration: Authorial Practice at University College Falmouth, visit http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/authorialillustration, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 214372 for the full-time option, or 01326 214373 for the part-time route.
In April 2008, University College Falmouth merged with Dartington College of Arts to create a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing.
The merger will pave the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall in 2012, creating a Higher Education institution unique to the South West.
University College Falmouth is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.
For further information about Atlantic Press, or to purchase a copy of Coasters, visit http://www.atlanticpressbooks.com