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I am currently Senior Lecturer, and first year lead tutor, in illustration at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.
I have previously taught illustration and communication design at a range of institutions, including Camberwell College of Arts, The American University of Richmond in London, Ravensbourne University, Arts University Bournemouth, and the Royal College of Art.
PAPERS / CONFERENCES
Walking with Inge published in the ‘Family Memory’ issue of Roots and Routes journal, 2022
/ www.roots-routes.org/walking-with-inge-by-serena-katt
Working with Archives: Approaches, Ethics and Impact published in Colouring In: The Past (Issue 3), 2022
/ www.colouring-in.com
(dis)embodied - digital encounters with place presented at Remote Sensing conference, and published in Remote Sensing publication, 2021
/ http://remote--sensing.co.uk/
Criticality and Belonging presented at Illustration Research Methods, 2021
/ https://illustrationresearch11.kingston.ac.uk/
FEATURED IN:
Illustration and Heritage by Rachel Emily Taylor, 2024
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illustration-and-heritage-9781350296022/
Familial complicity in Peter Pontiac’s Kraut, Nora Krug’s Belonging and Serena Katt’s Sunday’s Child by Laurike in ’t Veld, 2022.
https://jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/9/volume/4/issue/2/
Illustration Research Methods by Rachel Gannon & Mireille Fauchon, 2021
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illustration-research-methods-9781350051430/
AWARDS
Ideas Tap Graduate Award for Graphics & Illustration
First Prize, 2014
Brian Robb award, RCA Show
2013
Quentin Blake Narrative Prize
Highly commended, 2013
Adobe Design Awards
Semi finalist in collaboration with Chris Nott, 2012
SELECTED EXIBITIONS
‘Scenius’
James Hockey Gallery, UCA Farnham. February 2025
'10 years of DRAW RCA'
Triforium Gallery, London, July 2018
'Kill the Indian, Save the Man'
with Ester Svensson, Playground London, London. November 2017 (duo)
'Open 2017'
Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight. July 2017
'Talents' Archive Project
(in collaboration with Double Decker), Onassis Cultural Center, Athens. Spring 2015
'Designers block'
part of London Design week, September 2014
'South London goes to the Seaside'
Viking Gallery, Margate. June 2014
'Play'
London Print Studio, London. November 2013
'50 x 50'
Nancy Victor Gallery, London. September 2013
Show RCA 2013
Royal College of Art. June 2013
'Draw', Hockney Gallery
Royal College of Art. May 2013
"The loss of Storytelling"
Diss Corn Hall, Diss. August 2012 (solo)
"Re-solutions"
Korean Culture Centre. June 2012
Ku'damm 101 Design Happening
Berlin. December 2011
German-English Illustrator and Artist based in Brighton, UK
My work explores how illustration can be used as an active tool for understanding, interpreting and re-evaluating dominant narratives and discourse about historical events. How can illustration add to our understanding of history, how can it challenge it?
I am interested in exploring and highlighting the ways in which history is recorded, suppressed, remembered and distorted. I have become particularly interested in how meaning and underlying power structures contained within archival records can be interpreted through the act of drawing. Often working with archival artefacts and personal testimony, I create narrative sequences and visual essays that explore my own relationship to history.
I am interested in exploring and highlighting the ways in which history is recorded, suppressed, remembered and distorted. I have become particularly interested in how meaning and underlying power structures contained within archival records can be interpreted through the act of drawing. Often working with archival artefacts and personal testimony, I create narrative sequences and visual essays that explore my own relationship to history.