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- Position:Senior Lecturer : Illustration
- Department:Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)
- Telephone:+4411732 86380
- Email:Gary.Embury@uwe.ac.uk
About me
Gary Embury is an award-winning illustrator, editor, author, and senior lecturer at the University of the West of England. He is editor in chief of Reportager.org an online journal showcasing and initiating reportage drawing projects and one of the founding members of UWE drawing Research group. He co-founded the Topolski Studio Chronicle Residency Programme which ran for several years. Gary conceived and curated the International Reportager Drawing Award and recently co-authored a book on reportage and documentary drawing published by Bloomsbury. He has presented papers at conferences and symposia internationally chairing Witness, Reportage and Documentary forum at Falmouth University. He recently gave a public lecture at the V&A and in 2020 was part of the panel for the RCA Symposium "Reportage drawing at the end of the world". In 2022 he exhibited a series of drawings at Saatchi Gallery as part of a group exhibition, 'The Healing Arts'. Gary is currently working on a number of drawing related projects and publications and is artist in residence at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
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Reportage and documentary drawing.
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