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Mrs Sayra Begum

Job: Lecturer

School/department: Leicester Media School

Address: ¸Ô±¾ÊÓÆµ, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: N/A

E: sayra.begum@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Begum released her debut graphic novel, Mongrel in 2020 (supported by ACE, published by Knockabout). In 2023 it was published under the title Je suis Métisse by Delcourt. Begum has contributed to the 10 Years to Save the World comic anthology, the Wild Escape campaign, and Constrain Climate Comics where she created a comic responding to the IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). She also took part in the Comics Cultural Exchange Residency in Prague and was also recently an artist in residence at New Art Exchange, where she launched her Pilgrimage project.

Areas of teaching

Comic Art

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) Illustration (Arts University Plymouth)
  • MA Authorial Illustration (Falmouth University)
  • PGCHE (Falmouth University)

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Concept and Comic Art