Augusta Akerman

Augusta Akerman serves as an Illustration tutor at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, while maintaining an active freelance career as an illustrator and surface pattern designer. Her practice bridges traditional and digital media, focusing on narrative-driven visual storytelling.

Her educational background includes:

• Glasgow School of Art: Fine Art Photography
• Camberwell College of Arts: MA Illustration (Distinction, 2013)

Akerman's creative work merges classic illustrative techniques with abstract design sensibilities, utilizing pen and ink, lithography, lino printing, and experimental textile applications. She explores urgent ecological themes including climate change and animal migration through silk and cotton wallpapers, while her long-term Earthsea series reinterprets Ursula K Le Guin's narratives via printmaking-digital collage hybrids. Recent ventures include direct film painting for experimental animation, demonstrating her commitment to material innovation within narrative frameworks.

Scientific awards: None documented in source materials.

In her "Illustration - Drawn to Digital" short course, Akerman cultivates student confidence through accessible home-based printmaking techniques and Photoshop integration. Her pedagogy emphasizes overcoming creative paralysis, rejecting comparative thinking among artists, and finding inspiration in everyday experiences. She structures the course to reignite dormant artistic practices while equipping students with transferable technical skills for independent project development.