Nicki McNaney
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
Email: n.mcnaney@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332593121
Room: 108
Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Art and Design
Subject Area: Illustration
Nicki is a Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Illustration
Teaching responsibilities
Nicki is a senior lecturer for BA (Hons) Visual Communication (Illustration), teaching across all year groups and the third year tutor for all of Visual Communication programmes.
Research interests
Nicki's research explores her interest in everyday objects, collections and multiples using printmaking, drawing and photography to create a personal response to her findings.
Sometimes Nicki's interest is in many similar objects and other times it is the way in which they are placed in their environment that fuses them all together and inspires her to create work. The recent publication for 'The Wooden Dog Press" was a pictorial record of her kitchen cupboards, the multiples of cups, plates and kitchen paraphernalia illustrated and captured in there organised and formal manner.
Assembling items into categories and applying order to my selection forms the basis for refining my illustrations. I prefer to work in silkscreen and monoprint, as the processes offers the opportunity to create textures, mark making and beautiful layering of colour that I require to enhance the uniqueness and individuality of the publications and the final prints.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
Additional Interests and Activities
Nicki created a collaborative series of prints for exhibition: Type Writing' - a symposium at Birmingham City University the symposium explores the link between the typographer and the writer of words,
2011 Curator of the AOI Images 35 Best of British Illustration touring exhibition, exhibited at Markeaton street.
Postgraduate qualifications
- PGPLT, University of Derby
