Amelia Huw Morgan: Illustrator, artist, puppeteer & academic is an Illustrator and Senior lecturer in Illustration at Cardiff School of Art & Design teaching into the undergraduate scheme and leading the MA Pathway in Illustration & Animation.

Amelia’s work and teaching focus on the action of the illustrated image in the world in hope of, what she refers to as, ‘The Participant Viewer’. Amelia’s practice explores themes from fairy-tale,  folklore and post-apocalyptic imaginings working with the ideas to build memory, nostalgia and identity she is fascinated in exploring how images speak, teach lessons and forewarn. Amelia has worked on projects using puppetry, shadows and object theatre, running and drawing at the same time, influenced by the itinerant storytellers of the Polish Szopka traditions, and very much by the rituals of a childhood lived through stories, plays and imagination.

Amelia’s work is colourful, sometimes frightening, bold and immediate; she describes her process as going into ‘a sort of trance of making’ only to be flung out by some worldly interruption from her imaginative dreamscape.

Amelia lives on the edge of the Welsh valleys, in a house with two front doors, with her husband Richard and daughter Petrofa.