Lecturer in BA (Hons) Fashion Imaging and Digital Illustration

The opportunity

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 energy, 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.

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

Your profile

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) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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If we receive a high volume of applications, the closing day date might close early. We aim to communicate any changes to the closing date with at least 24 hours’ notice. If you have any general questions or have accessibility needs, please refer to our Contact us page.

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