Projects in Namibia and Zambia.

July 2022: Facilitated visual conversations at University of Namibia Faculty of Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, reflecting on leadership and personal development, with sessions in the Anatomical Resources Centre on campus in Windhoek, with Prof. Quenton Wessels and team. See also 3D Conversations. Illustrated blog account here.

“Really eye opening... reminds me how visuals can play an important role to facilitate change at a self level and within the spaces we find ourselves. Indeed we all have a story to tell if we are given a platform and you did just that for me. Looking forward to having more conversations and learning opportunities. “

Dr. Arthur Chigova, Lecturer, Dept. of Community Dentistry, UNAM.

Summer 2021 and 2022: Working with Dr Job Mwanza, Medical Officer for Chongwe District in Zambia, developing local awareness and information campaigns with rural communities.

July 2021: awarded Honorary Senior Research Fellowship with Cardiff University School of Medicine, applying art and design practices within medical health education, leadership development and public engagement, through Prof Judith Hall.

Images:
July 2022: ‘Anatomical Epiphanies’. Visual facilitation at UNAM, with Prof. Quenton Wessels, Prof. Judith Hall, Maria Hainghumbi and other staff and students. See also: 3D Conversations

Summer 2021 ‘COVID-19 is Real’ poster, leaflet and gif based on drawings and texts by rural communities in Siavonga region, Zambia. Photos by Dr. Job Mwanza.

Sept 2021 - Vaccination icons for a multi-lingual nationwide campaign, placed in The Namibian (circulation c 65,000).

July 2021 Nam Vacc Task Animation Task Force- campaign design, UNAM/Phoenix MedEd.

2020-21 : ‘Leadership for Change’. conversations with staff at the University of Namibia, led by Prof.Judith Hall and UNAM’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Kenneth Matengu amid challenges of responding to the pandemic. UNAM as a garden.

Curvilinear growth: Cardiff University 2021.

”Chris’ process deepens the understanding and experiences of non-experts. The insights shared have been remarkable and I do think that this work alters people's perception and impacts their thinking.”

Professor Judith Hall OBEPhoenix Project Lead for Cardiff University Head Anaesthetics, Intensive Care, Pain Medicine, Cardiff University

”These are brilliant and very powerful. I was blown away.”
David Hain, Transformation Partners UK

"Amazing to see the incredible work. Absolutely beautiful. It's a scary situation in Namibia, so it’s good to see use of doctors' drawings and the handmade element in the digital images. It helps to open up the information in a compassionate way."

Dr. Frauke Stegmann. Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Namibia.


Call to connect:
Often illustrators operate in isolation, outside institutions or within practice bubbles. And yet, powerful and moving images, deployed in the right contexts, can cross cultural and institutional boundaries: they can connect people in new ways and open up new thinking.

As a very loose tribe, illustrators can - and ought to - get out more and connect beyond the discipline. This research evolves new methods, records and reflects upon impacts, and aims to expand all participants’ horizons through empathic, relational illustration.