Nina Carter
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Illustration Animation
- School of Design
- Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
- Design, Arts and Creative Practice
Senior Lecturer
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am an illustrator and educator currently co-leading second year BA Illustration Animation.
My creative practice is grounded in climate storytelling. I am a founder of It’s Freezing in LA!, a critically acclaimed non-profit magazine publishing original text and image about climate and environmentalism. My work involves creative direction, production, editing and facilitation – most recently in curating London’s Climate Story Bank, a physical and digital collection of stories about how the climate crisis is affecting London and Londoners.
Most of my work is in partnership with others. I’m interested in conversations across the arts and climate sciences, and between creative projects and the public. I have collaborated with Wellcome Collection, Science Museum and Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology amongst others, and have contributed to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across illustration, visual communication and design. Institutions include University of the Arts London, University for the Creative Arts, Ravensbourne University London and Falmouth University.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Illustration Animation
- Advance HE Fellow (FHEA)
Domains
I have worked with undergraduate and postgraduate students since 2018 with a focus on visual communication and storytelling, independent publishing and collaborations with external partners. Modules I have led include teaching and learning about collaboration, presentation skills and professional practice. I currently co-lead second year BA Illustration Animation and run a module called Presentation: Audience and Context. As a Fellow of Higher Education (FHEA), my teaching interests involve:
- Methods of groupwork, care, conversation and feedback
- Facilitating accessible spaces open to diverse learners
- Critical questioning amongst staff and students
- Alternative outdoor green teaching spaces
Qualifications
- Advance HE Fellow (FHEA)
Courses taught
My research interests orbit around visual storytelling in climate and environmentalism. Alongside practitioners from other disciplines, I question how we might illustrate the climate crisis in more connected, engaging and tangible ways. I challenge what an illustrator's perspective might bring to a multidisciplinary team working on an issue-based topic, with a broader interest in how this framework could be applied to other settings. This ongoing research has been shared at Samsung KX, MassArt and the 11th Illustration Research Symposium and featured in Eye on Design, PRINT and It's Nice That.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Illustration Animation
Specialisms
- Visual storytelling in climate and environmentalism
- Climate communication
- Inter and transdisciplinary work