Gabrielle Cariolle

Senior LecturerMA, FHEA

Overview

I am a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Illustration course at Arts University Bournemouth, specialising in animation and narrative images. My practice is versatile and playfully explores authorship across media. It is informed by a diverse and international professional experience as an illustrator and animation filmmaker.

Qualifications

MA Animation – Royal College of Art
Diploma of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD Paris)

Teaching Qualification

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice

Teaching

I currently teach across levels on the Illustration course – contributing to the lectures series, teaching Moving Image throughout Level 4 and 5, leading the Interpretation of Text unit, and exploring of specialist and avant-garde practices in Convergence/Divergence unit in Level 5.

Previous engagement with art education include teaching in Chennai, India, as Head of Art in an international school, and as a visiting tutor at the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad).

Courses

BA (Hons) Illustration

Research

Research Interests and Projects

My current research focuses on authorial and experimental approaches within illustration and animation. I enjoy exploring the creation of meaning in relation to methods and formats of production, through practice and writing.

My interests include social and performative aspects of image-making; I consider the illustrated image as an exciting site of encounter, exchange, negotiation and self-assertion.

I am also a research student at UAL, exploring the affordances of illustration in the expression of more-than-human subjectivities.

Research engagements include:

Fieldwork and Illustration, a presentation at ‘Doodling, sketching, colouring in… What are Illustration Research Methods’, London College of Communication, (2025–6)
La Maison 1 and 2, reading and showcase for Comicon, Central Saint Martins (2025)
La Maison 1 (2018) and 2 (2022), riso-printed illustrated narratives, zines, 28 and 48 pages
Sites of Criticality, a paper presentation at Education and Illustration: Models, Methods, Paradigms, 11th Illustration Research Symposium, Kingston University (2021-02)