Key details
Time
- 4pm – 5pm
Location
- Online
Price
- Free
Who can attend
- Everyone
Type
- Webinar
How might an image provoke senses of intimacy? How might these intimacies be intensified by various spaces or conditions of encounter? And how, within our own making practices, are we most closely involved with our images?
In this conversation The Graphic Novel Visual Storytelling tutors Andrzej Klimowski and Miguel Angel Valdivia, alongside illustrator and lecturer Zoë Taylor, will explore intimacy as a mode for sensing out the dynamics of prolonged attention within illustration practice.
Speakers
Zoe Taylor
Zoë’s illustrations have appeared in publications such as The Guardian, The New York Times and AnOthermag.com and she recently illustrated a collection of supernatural stories by David Rudkin for Strange Attractor.
Her comic Joyride was published by Breakdown Press in 2017 and featured in the Comics on Every Floor exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in 2024. Her sequences have also appeared in international anthologies. She published a small book, Mirror Vault Secret Door with Foot books in 2024.
Zoë has been on the editorial board of Varoom illustration magazine where she was a contributing editor between 2014 and 2017, highlighting innovations within fashion illustration the significance of various manga artists.
She is currently developing Let Me Work!, a joint drawing and criticism research project with writer Jamie Sutcliffe, exploring the legacies of manga and anime pioneer Osamu Tezuka which will be published with Breakdown Press later this year.
She lectures on the BA Illustration course at the University of Northampton and occasionally as a guest at other institutions including the RCA.
Professor Emeritus Andrzej Klimowski
Andrzej Klimowski, who was born to Polish parents in London, retains strong links with Poland, where he lived and worked for some years. During his career he has made films and written graphic novels. He has designed theatre posters and book covers for leading publishers. He was head of Illustration at the Royal College of Art for many years, and is now Professor Emeritus. He continues to produce graphic novels with his wife Danusia Schejbal, and works in graphics and produces illustrations. He also makes films. His work has been the subject of a retrospective at the National Theatre, London.
He currently runs a summer course at the Royal College of Art, The Graphic Novel: Visual Storytelling.
Miguel Angel Valdivia
Migeul Angel Valdivia is an illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator based in Italy, working between drawing, storytelling, and teaching. He is currently teach Comics and Visual Storytelling at NABA in Rome. He studied Illustration at the Royal College of Art in London, where he later worked as a visiting lecturer in the Visual Communication programme. He continue to collaborate with the Royal College of Art through summer courses in visual storytelling and graphic narrative, co-teaching with Andrzej Klimowski.
Alongside his artistic practice, He work with international students through portfolio tutoring, mentoring, and workshops, supporting applications to art schools in the UK and Europe. His teaching focuses on illustration, comics, visual communication, and visual storytelling, both in group teaching and one-to-one tutorials.
In the series
Free online talks led by RCA academic faculty featuring notable guest speakers with industry specialism and leading professional practitioners in their field.
