‘Poetic Objects- finding ideas through objects’

Jake Abrams is an Associate professor at Kingston School of Art. He is a prolific, Illustrator, Designer and Artist working on concurrent projects. He has taught nationally and internationally and currently teaches on the multi-award winning BA Illustration Animation course at Kingston.

He has worked, as an illustrator for a range of prestigious publications including The Times, The Independent, Creative Review, The Guardian, and Blueprint and I continues to hold exhibitions at home and abroad (including a solo exhibition at The Southbank Centre, London). He is currently engaged in a span of projects ( Get Better books) that aim to help allay procedural anxiety for seriously ill children facing major surgery in hospitals across the UK. This work, in conjunction with Great Ormond Street Hospital in London received a D&AD Impact Award in 2021.

His academic and artistic research is wide-ranging with a current fascination with the potency of objects: notably the chair. This fascination has led to a series of student projects that examine how ideas can be formulated from object amalgamations and juxtapositions. As part of JAMBOREE he will show how a range of artists and designers have used objects in this way. He will also show some students responses to this way of thing as well as his own reflections on masculinity that transform chairs.

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Date: 18 January 2023

Time: 10:00AM – 11:30PM (UK time zone)

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