The wonderful House of Illustration has a new name. It’s now known as the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration and always has a plethora of exhibitions, workshops and news updates across the UK. Not only that, they’re transforming a fascinating but forgotten heritage site in Clerkenwell into
Read more →A wonderful opportunity to see the artwork from some of Raymond Briggs’s books and novels. Raymond Briggs (1934-2022) is best-known for silent picturebook The Snowman (1978). But over a 60-year career, Briggs created illustrated books on themes from family relationships and grief to social mobility and political
Read more →A chance to see over 60 of Blake’s book covers from the 1960s to the present.
Read more →Over 10 years on from Turner Contemporary’s first Open, and in celebration of the gallery’s 10th anniversary, Turner Contemporary is pleased to present The Turner Contemporary Open. This ambitious exhibition celebrates and showcases the wealth of artistic talent in Kent and Medway. It includes works by both
Read more →Many exhibitions are on hold for visiting at present but there are a plethora of online illustration courses to keep the momentum flowing. Check out House of Illustration to see what they have on offer: https://www.houseofillustration.org.uk
Read more →A new graphics show opens in London at the end of January 2020. House of Illustration are showing the first ever retrospective of the Polish-Jewish émigré George Him, who brought European modernist aesthetics to British graphic design. The exhibition spans his long and versatile career as both
Read more →House of Illustration is showing an unprecedented exhibition of original Cuban propaganda posters and magazines. Much of Cuba’s iconic graphic design is instantly recognizable the world over. But alongside the familiar image of Che Guevara, Cuban artists have produced uncompromising design and illustration to deliver Cuba’s revolutionary
Read more →House of Illustration is currently showing ‘Picturing Science’, an exhibition demonstrating the process of transformation from early ideas for picture books, research documents and initial sketches to final page spreads and bold book covers.
Read more →For House of Illustration’s ‘Rabbrexit Means Rabbrexit’, YiMiao Shih has created a series of ‘relics’ from the UK’s imaginary rabbit population, including large-scale embroidered epics, newly minted 52p and 48p coins and aeroplane landing cards for rabbits stripped of their British citizenship.
Read more →The House of Illustration is showing the wonderful Ludwig Bemelmans Sketches for Madeline – the UK’s first exhibition dedicated to Bemelmans’s sketches for this most classic of picture books that has sold over 14 million copies since its publication in 1939.
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