Lecturer in BA (Hons) Fashion Imaging and Digital Illustration

The opportunity
London College of Fashion is looking for an experienced academic practitioner to assume responsibility for teaching, curriculum development, and on-going scholarship on the BA (Hons) Fashion Imaging and Illustration course.

Within your areas of expertise as a fashion image maker or creative arts lecturer, we ask you to inspire and excite our students, bringing to life the technical and theoretical aspects of your field, providing solid industry or academic experience. You will blend analogue, digital and new media imaging processes through your multidisciplinary lens of contemporary platforms and technologies.

With expertise in professional practice and a strong foundation of industry knowledge, you will translate this into the classroom for our students. Through research led enquiry and creative production processes, you will inspire this emerging future generation of creative storytellers with drive, and commitment. Your practice should consider values of ethics and diversity as part of your fashion thinking, to support creative solutions for the future of the discipline.

About you
As a professional industry practitioner, you will hold a relevant degree and will be able to demonstrate significant creative success and specialist knowledge in digital image production for a fashion context and for contemporary platforms. You will be forward thinking and visionary, with an understanding of the changing demands of the industry.

You will exhibit a further understanding of image making, in relation to contemporary fashion imaging and illustration. Your portfolio of work will question the status quo, and you will be a significant contributor to advancing your area of expertise.

You thrive within the current fashion, arts and image making landscape and are coherent in both current and upcoming thinking for the evolving field of fashion imaging and illustration. You will be a team collaborator, with excellent communication skills and hold an authentic interest in creative arts academia with a defined aesthetic vision. A relevant postgraduate qualification will be an advantage, while industry experience is essential.

We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

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Closing date: 7^th January 2025, 23:55.

If you have any queries about this role, please contact the Recruiting Manager Alex Mein on a.mein@fashion.arts.ac.uk.

Our culture
UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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