About Jac C. Batey

MICRO-BIO

  • Associate professor in Illustration and a creative practitioner. Zines; artist's books; illustration; drawing as research

EXPERIENCE

  • University of Portsmouth
    • Associate Professor in Illustration
    • School of Art, Design and Performance
    • Eldon Building, Winston Churchill Avenue
    • January 1995 to Present
  • University of Brighton
    • Visiting Lecturer
    • Art & Communication
    • 1994 to 2007

EDUCATION

  • University of Brighton
    • PhD (practice-based)
    • February 1997 to February 2003

    The Safe Cigarette: Visual Strategies of Reassurance in American Advertisements for Cigarettes - 1945-1964This Practice-Based Ph.D. thesis is in two sections, the written element presented as a sequence of eight Fascicles, and the practical element presented as an inter-related set of nine Artist’s Books and Multiples.This thesis presents a series of Artist’s Books and Multiples of graphic expressions of anxiety, each informed by a comparative study presented as a sequence of Fascicles of the visual strategies used to advertise cigarettes in America in mass-circulation magazines between 1945 and 1964. The thesis is presented as a boxed object containing the eight Fascicles (each containing a Gatefold Image) and the nine Artist’s Books and Multiples.The thesis identifies specific design and illustration solutions in cigarette advertising such as considerations of artwork, photography, layout, typography, characterisation, and diagrammatic representation of process. The conclusions are then used as the basis for 9 books and multiples in which I explore, within my own artwork, the dynamics of visual instruction, and the devices for reassuring the anxious consumer using irony and humour throughout.

  • University of Brighton
    • BA (HONS) Illustration
    • 1993 to 1996

  • University of Brighton
    • MA Sequential Illustration / Editorial Design
    • 1992 to 1994

  • Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
    • Foundation Art and Design
    • 1991 to 1992

DISCIPLINES

  • Illustration

Interests

  • Art Education

  • Satire

  • Artists Books

  • Illustration

  • Zines

Languages

  • English

Links

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