Research & Knowledge Exchange Repository
Arts University Plymouth’s research community benefits from an unique environment dedicated to practice-led creative inquiry within a world-class suite of material and digital resources which provide evolving opportunities for original scholarship and innovative outputs.
A presentation delivered at the Illustration & Adaptation Conference in 2019 exploring my book 'That Little Jackdaw', an adaptation of the poem ‘The Jackdaw of Rheims’.
At its core, the objective of this project is to empower individuals and organisations to generate ideas and visually communicate them effectively.
Creative education requires a creative approach and Hirons & Brown developed the Illustration Pedagogy project using the tools and contexts of illustration itself to teaching and learning.
Editorial for the special issue of DTRP exploring the relationship between drawing and learning, and the role drawing plays in the construction of knowledge within educational or learning contexts.
Exploring how the materiality of drawing has the ability to expand our relational understanding of the world around us.
An account of teaching and promoting drawing throughout a career in Higher Education, illustrating some of the ways drawing defies expectation and categorization.
This paper sets out to explore thinking-through making as a complex dynamic of learnt skills and intuitive thought and to examine how these may be taught in what will be termed in this context 'learning and doing'. The paper proposes that, whilst there are established strategies relating to the acquisition of craft skills and to creativity, it is less clear how intuition, as the act of knowing or sensing in the moment, can be taught in the context of art and design education. The paper will take the practice of drawing as its exemplar in this exploration of intuition, examining how it might be described and imparted in an education context and its value in creative, entrepreneurial and sustainable practice.