SHORT PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS
FULL-TIME – MA Sequential Design/Illustration
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
A series of three picture books, two aimed at young children, one for a general audience,
exploring the concept of relativity, which outline ways to understand different points of view and to empathize with others.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
The Internal Journey: Exploring The Inner Voice Reflected In Dreams
A 48-page graphic novel targeting the adult audience, exploring how unresolved issues in our personal lives are presented to us in our dreams.
Supakawadee Khoowatanataworn (Aim)
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
A collection of short comic narratives, targeting a teenage audience, that use animal characters as a way to express human experiences of gender diversity.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
Encouraging children to use their imagination through the medium of an activity book
A children’s activity book included within, and supported by, a 32-page illustrated narrative about a girl’s journey to outer space. The book targets the 5-7 age group and encourages children to use their imagination by engaging with the five pages of activities, which include junk model building, picture stickers, and origami.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
How can children overcome the fear of darkness using a picture book?
A 32-page illustrated storybook that aims to encourage children to overcome their fears of darkness. The story describes how a frightened girl befriends the darkness and learns to understand that the darkness is a beautiful part of everlasting nature.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
Seven Seven Sparrow Sparrows – Modern tales for Chinese animal idioms
Invented modern tales describing animal idioms taken from eight Chinese dialects examine how the morals carried in these sayings will be understood by readers from different cultures.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
The Presence of Absence: Luna’s Red Hat
A storybook to help children aged 6+ to cope with loss and suicide.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
What’s Your Secret?: Exploring the process of a girl’s self-understanding
A children’s book targeting ages 6-8 that will encourage children or adults to face life with a positive attitude by encouraging them to communicate with others.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
The Apocryphal Collection: Truths and Untruths in Maltese Catholicism
A quietly subversive study of Maltese Catholicism presented as an implied private collection of ‘banned books’, including a fictitious “Index of Apocrypha” and three of its entries.
SECOND YEAR PART-TIME – MA Sequential Design/Illustration
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
A modern myth of birds versus man that challenges the conventions of picture books and chapter books by bridging the gap between them. Sample chapters and plot outline for a 7-10,000-word illustrated children’s book, for the 7+ age range that examines the effective balance of words and pictures to bring plot and characters to life.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
Liminality: Imagination, Reality and the Space In Between
Exploring through story ‘in between spaces’ for the imagination to develop and promote resilience for primary school aged children. A 32-page picture book for 5-8 year-olds that explores imagination through a story about fear of the dark, plus animation experiments for a film trailer to be be completed in the future.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
Remnants: A Museum of Narrative Collections (working title)
An illustrated museum catalogue with a collection of embroideries that explore the overlooked narratives embedded in an archive of inherited sewing box artifacts.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
An 32-page picture book to inform and inspire hope in young sufferers of depressive illness and their loved ones.
MA Sequential Design/Illustration
Promises and Expectations
A collection of poetry and embroidery exploring the domestic and feminine origins of fairy tales.
Fairy tales were originally told by women within a domestic context, they developed these narratives to make sense of the world around them. Through poetry I have imagined the personal motives for these stories, exploring the unacknowledged characteristics of principal female fairy tale characters. Through embroidery I am signifying the domestic expectations of women, both then and now.
The Flush, the Ragged and the Panelled Strip: An exploration of relationships between illustrated poetry and the comic book (working title)
Print-based responses that explore similarities in compositional structure, design, rhythm and reading of illustrated poetry, the comic book and poetry comics – for an audience where poetry readers interested in comic books meet with comic book readers with an interest in poetry.
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