MA Illustration student work

Students on our MA Illustration course focus on illustration for social change, an innovative and growing area for illustration practice that addresses the complex social and environmental problems faced by society today.

This prepares them for work as freelance illustrators and creative consultants, but also gives them skills useful for many other fields, including teaching and creative management.

See work by graduating students 2020-2023 on our PastPresent showcase.

Ana Anahory, Sketches for Adamastor, 2024
Sketches for a graphic novel set in Portugal during the regime of Salazar, around seafaring, loss and ambition.
Anna Vydrina, Song of the Final Meeting, 2024
Master's Project: graphic novel with no beginning and no end
Barbara Berezowska, 2024
Work created for the module Sequence and Series
Danxuan Ma, Feather Pillow, 2024
A visual response to the book Tales Of Love, Madness and Death by Quiroga Horacio
Eco-anxiety workshop, 2024
A joint exploration of options, team work and experimentation are an integral part of the module Practice through Partnership
Fruszina Menahai, 2024
Response to the Design Methods and Context module - a Victorian cemetery as a space for the living as well the passed.
Fruszina Menahai, Time to go Home, 2024
Master's Project: two visual publications regarding the relationship developed with the city of Cambridge as a temporary location.
Jewel Ya Chu Chang, Control Collaboration and Compromise, 2024
One of a series of five collages for the Master's Project, exploring the power dynamics within an intimate relationship.
Jianing Wan, Room Echoes, 2024
One of fifty image-and-sound illustrations for the Master's Project, exploring how to capture the everyday moment of solitude.
Jiatong Dai, Invisible Woe, 2024
Cover of practice-based research for the Master’s Project, exploring how adults with visual impairment experience illustration.
Jinpu Zhou, Line, 2024
Master’s Project exploring the narrative and interactive potential of a VR environment.
Kelsey Wu, Dreamscape, 2024
Still from an AI-supported scene visualising a disorientating dream installation, as part of the neuroscientific research into dream experience.
Meg Ann, Dream visualisation, 2024
Still from a VR scene visualising a disorientating dream, as part of the neuroscientific research into dream experience.
Morgan Thompson, Visual Text, 2024
Self-initiated project: printed leporello book printed with glow-in-the-dark ink.
Nico Lu, Mushroom chairs, 2024
A presentation proposal created for the module Design Methods.
Ran Ding, Isolation Museum - Intrapersonal Isolation, 2024
Part of a series of books for the Master's Project. Using mirrored paper and print, this book explores introspection as part of a wider investigation into the sense of isolation.
Shunan Ma, The Favour of Emotions, 2024
Experiments with Augmented Reality, to make the emotion of flavours coming alive.
Xinyue Peng, The Family Table, 2024
Part of a Master's Project that seeks to facilitate a conversation within the family about gay sexual orientation.
Yetta Xu, Sketchbook, 2024
A sketchbook page, made in part for the module Image and Impact.
Yetta Xu, Sketchbook, 2024
Observational Drawing as part of the module Image and Impact.
Yetta Xu, Proposal for storytelling app, 2024
For the module Design Methods, considering the potential of a historic cemetery for new social connections.
Zoë Beckley, on these here Flatlands, 2024
Master's Project: Series of books and poems connected to observational drawings and stories around Bury St. Edmunds.
Irina Selaru
Dunyasha
Florine Delasalle
Winner of the Sustainability Award 2019