Cartoon and Comic Arts: Will Vaughan

3rd Years prepare for Degree Show

This years see's cartoon and comic arts 2nd lot of students graduate. As is now the practice at the end of the the whole of the Art & Design department goes about putting on an end of year show. Comics once again played an important part in this.

Below is a visual documentation of how the show came together and the various in carnations it went through.

So Starting off with the room we were allocated. It was the same one as last year where it held 10 students, this year there was to be 12, so this meant that false walls had to be built and work had to be printed and put up.

Above shows the initial starting point, the room with the boards in ready for the interior walls to be built

The partially built side wall was to allow 3 students to display their work

The corner piece was taken out to allow for the space to be used more effectively

The final panoramic view of the area in Henrion Room H009

After that the students moved in to start the job of turning the area into their Degree Show Space

We tried to stop the paint being put on the floor honest with the plastic wrapping

It was great to see how everyone stood around and waited for Becci to stir the paint

then with a few well chosen adjustments the team kicked in

The paint was stirred enough

and teh magic started to happen

yep... missed a bit.

Once the room was done, the furniture was moved to one side to allow the floor to be polished.

Artwork submitted

Kieran Hayes

Callum Lawrence-Bardsley

Will Kellioh

Michaela Betts

Ryan Moss

Will Vaughan

Reece Palattao

Becci Such

Emma Buxton

Connie Skerrett

Michaela Clark

Currently missing is Pete Dawson's work which is an animation which I hope to up load soon

The Cartoon Studio 2014We made it!

It is with great pride that I write. A new start of the academic year, what appears to be a great cohort and a brilliant studio. There is a few people I'd like to thank at the start from this piece, and they include the FACT Management, including Astrid and Mark Garner and Fin Dineen for their faith and support. The Technicians lead by the Fearless Harry Porter have poured sweat and tears into the moving of the equipment and supplying new stuff. For Gareth for his painting skills! and the students, Will Vaughan and Kieran Hayes who did so much for the mural. But a special thanks has to go to Becci Such my PA is waiting, DIY, Painter, Wall paper-er and artist for giving up so much of her summer along with her boyfriend Liam. I am in their debt!

Here is a brief history in images of the birth of the cartoon and comic arts area at Staffordshire University

The Start - What we inherited

as you can see from the outset we were up against it with the amount of stuff that had been left behind by the Fine Art team.

So from this position we had to start to clear the area so we could get in there, clean it and start to decorate it. Unfortunately some of the new equipment arrived so it caused a bit of a bottle neck getting the old stuff out and our stuff in.

The reduction of Fine Art stuff made the area look a lot better, but there was still a lot of work. The are had basically bee left to fall into ruin, and probably hadst been cleaned out for many a year.