Dr Jake Abrams

Contact

Email: j.abrams@kingston.ac.uk
Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
Faculty: Kingston School of Art
School: School of Design
Department: Department of Illustration Animation

About

I am an experienced educator holding a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), a National Art Design and Media Teaching Fellowship (ADMHEA), and a Kingston University Teaching Fellowship. I have taught nationally and internationally and currently teach on the multi-award winning BA Illustration Animation course at Kingston. I am also an external examiner at other institutions.

Alongside this I have maintained an active practice and profile as an illustrator, designer and artist working for the likes of The Independent, Creative review, The Times, The Guardian, and Blueprint and I continue to hold exhibitions at home and abroad (including a solo exhibition at The Southbank Centre, London).

I am a keen advocate of internationalisation within Kingston School of Art and have helped forge international collaborations and partnerships across the globe in Thailand, Taiwan, the United States, Korea, China, and Norway.

My academic and artistic research is wide-ranging with a current fascination with the potency of objects: notably the chair.

Academic responsibilities

Associate professor

Qualifications

Professional Doctorate in Fine Art, UEL 2017
SFHEA (Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)
ADMHEA (Art Design & Media Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)
MA, Manchester Metropolitan University
BA, Kingston University

Teaching and learning

Undergraduate courses taught

Illustration Animation BA (Hons)

Research

Through in depth analysis using drawing, painting and sculpture, my current research is preoccupied with how objects can hold ulterior and potent meaning with particular relevance to notions of gender and masculinity.

My doctorate research, Uncertain Masculinities, was an auto-ethnographic undertaking that appropriated the chair to examine these ideas.