Ksenia Kopalova is an illustrator and a researcher with a background in sociology, currently working as a lecturer on BA (Hons) Illustration at Arts University Bournemouth. She is a founder of .RAW, an online magazine drawing cross-disciplinary connections in the arts and humanities. Ksenia's current professional interests revolve around the idea of illustration as knowledge-making. Her personal projects mainly explore memory- and place-making strategies.
Currently teaching across levels on the BA Illustration course – contributing to the lectures series, supervising the written components of the units including the final year dissertations, leading the Locating Practice unit.
The previous teaching experience includes teaching Illustration, Comics, and Critical and Contextual Studies at the British Higher School of Art and Design (University of Hertfordshire) and HSE Art and Design School in Russia, as well as being a visiting tutor at the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies in Armenia.
My current research interests involves examining the intersections of the digital and the physical and the influences of technology on memory- and place-making.