Master of Arts - Illustration

Students explore traditional and future-facing definitions of illustration, becoming a flexible practitioner ready to face the industry’s changing needs. This is a highly practical course, utilizing methods through which illustration can be created and applied by challenging making and thinking. This approach enables students to become competitive, recognizable and adaptable.

Students work on illustration practices, processes and outcomes, including commercial, editorial, authorial, sequential, multiform or active/participatory. They produce work for print and publishing, international competitions, children's picture books, zines, graphic novels, digital and screen-based production including animation, motion or large-scale installation.

Students study at MIMA School of Art & Design, an art school led by Teesside University and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), an international contemporary museum and gallery. They gain a full artistic experience, learning in a social space that inspires dynamic ideas, fuels collaboration and allows students to build local, national and international networks with industry professionals for their future illustration career.