Kruddart was a partnership between Michael Coulson and Nichola Bruce. They studied film at Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex University). Although the main focus of their work is filmmaking, their practice is multi-disciplinary taking in design, illustration and painting. The Draughtsman’s Contract is one of their best known film posters – a collage of photographs, photocopies, drawings and calligraphy – promoting the Peter Greenaway film of the same title.

http://www.nicholabruce.com/

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Glossary

  • Collage

    The two-dimensional form of assemblage made by affixing paper, card, photographs, fabric and other objects to a flat surface. It is often combined with painting and drawing techniques. This technique was first introduced by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1912 during their phase of synthetic cubism.

  • Design

    The arrangement of elements or details in an artefact or a work of art.

  • Film

    A transparent, flexible plastic material, usually of cellulose acetate or polyester, on which light-sensitive emulsion is coated, or on which an image can be formed by various transfer processes.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.