'Boring Drawings' posits that image-making
can be used to explore affective encounters
within learning environments, arguing that
the boring, the empty and the mundane speak
more truthfully and viscerally of the everyday
encounters and experiences of pedagogy.

This thinking grew from the study Academic
Year 2023 – 2024: Exploring Illustration Pedagogy
Through Illustration Practice in which I considered
the entanglement of three academic identities:
teacher, illustrator and researcher.

The aims of this research were to surface findings
that can begin to restructure a sense of self within
Higher Education, to better understand student
experience of illustration pedagogy and to uncover
a more nuanced focus for future research.

This research is published on the Illustration
Educators network and UAL Research Online.

Text & image: Rachel Davey
Design: eilis searson
Print: Offset Litho