Lecturer in Fashion Imaging and Digital Illustration

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The opportunity

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

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 multidisciplinary 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 is a vibrant world centre for innovation, drawing together six Colleges with international reputations in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. 

London College of Fashion is extremely proud to be a global leader in fashion education, research and consultancy. Much of its success is down to its dedicated employees, and you will play an important role in shaping future creative professionals, and impact on the future of so many creative industries.  

London College of Fashion, UAL is undertaking an unprecedented programme of change. In 2023 we will be consolidating our existing six sites into a new purpose built campus as part of a new education and cultural district on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.  Ahead of this move, we welcome applications from candidates who live in and around East London, as well as from those keen to join us on this exciting and unique opportunity in our College’s history.  

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

If you have any queries about the application process or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact  the Resourcing Team at vacancies@fashion.arts.ac.uk   phone: 020 7514 7409 / 07730 900321  

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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