Last night after a days teaching I met with Ant Ellis for a pint in Liverpool. Ant is a writer, designer and artist and works full time teaching on the Graphic Arts course at Liverpool John Moore’s University. Ant has also graduated from an Ma course at The Royal College of Art in London and so it was helpful to have a chat and find out what he found worthwhile about his time on his Ma course. We spoke a lot about the theory side of an Ma course and how this is integral to the development of your learning, pushing it further than on a Ba course. We also spoke about plotting the trajectories of your work throughout the course of the Ma but how it is also important for there to be areas that naturally branch out from your planned route for you to get the best out of what it is you are researching/practicing. Ant kindly forwarded his research statement onto me to read through and also suggested a book that he found helpful whilst studying. (Poststructuralism: A very short Introduction - Catherine Belsey - See image below) Ant’s research project came about during his Ma and looks at the relationship between typographic representation and language, and how this representation can affect the meaning of a word. Some examples of Ant’s work can be seen below and you can visit his website here to read more about each one.
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