HARTLEPOOL FESTIVAL OF ILLUSTRATION 2017
ILLUSTRATORS INCLUDE:
Sir Ridley Scott Alan Vest Angela Keeler Axel Scheffler Ben Clowes Benji Davies Chris Lovell Dan Mumford Dwayne Bell Felt Mistress Frances Moffatt Fred Blunt Gerald Scarfe Godmachine Hydro 74 Jamie Smart Jane Hissey Jim Stoten Joe Todd-Stanton Jon Burgerman Jonathan Edwards Laura Quick
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Lawrence Goldsmith Lucy MacLeod Luke Healy Matt Bailey Moose Kids Comic Petra Borner Rachel Clowes Richard Jones Ryan Quickfall Sandra Dieckmann Secret Soc13ty Stuart Trotter Tara McPherson The Association of Illustrators Tom J Newell Tor Freeman Victoria Turnbull Warwick Johnson Cardwell ZombieDollars
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FOREWORD
llustration is the visual
months and filled Hartlepool Art
without them we wouldn’t be able
language that surrounds us
Galley up to its spire, but by looking
to celebrate the exhibiting
all, it crosses age, gender
to its past, present and future this
illustrators and their amazing work.
and continents, it can evoke
exhibition captures the essence
It fills me with pride to also have
emotions make you think or make
and breadth of the industry.
graduates from the BA (Hons)
you buy.
Illustration for Commercial As we move into uncertain times it
Application programme exhibiting
The second Festival of Illustration
is important that the Creative
this year, on their merit and hard
gave us the opportunity to exhibit
Industries, which are so strong and
work they have been able to forge
some of the best in the field, show
vibrant in this country, and
the beginning of what will be an
the cornucopia of image making
financially contributes more than
illustrious career.
and how we all can, and do relate
many industries to our economy,
as every picture tells a story.
continues to be supported. We
It is rare to be able to exhibit such a
would like to thank The Arts Council
quality show outside of the capital,
The illustration team relished the
England as well as our other
this catalogue captures the core of
chance to curate such an exciting
sponsors, Hartlepool Borough
the exhibitors and their profession,
mix of artists, to pull together names
Council, Sir James Knott Trust,
the attention to detail, the innovative
from across the world. It was not
Northern Print, Crossing The
conceptualisation of ideas, the skills
easy, we could have carried on for
Tees,and Grand Central Rail for
developed to realise a piece of artwork, a picture; a picture that
BEN CLOWES Programme Leader Illustration for Commercial Application, Cleveland College of Art & Design
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SIR RIDLEY SCOTT
We are delighted to lead the Hartlepool Festival of Illustration with a selection of original drawings from Alien and Gladiator director Sir Ridley Scott. We are honoured to showcase storyboards from Boy and Bicycle, which was shot in West Hartlepool and Seaton Carew, places Sir Ridley was familar with thanks to his time studying in the town in the 1950s. Sir Ridley and his brother Tony are celebrated alumnus of what was West Hartlepool College of Art, now known as Cleveland College of Art & Design.
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Alan VEST
Using lines, splashes, smudges and scratches with just about any material available, he creates lively and spontaneous drawings, keeping the line at the heart of the image. When the illustrator makes a drawing he aims to keep it looking like a drawing, to create a sort of time capsule within the image just engraved onto paper. Whether its the scuffs of pencil, a ripped corner or a sausage roll crumb embedded in the image, it must remain in its raw format for as long as possible. Inevitably it is uploaded to a digital platform, whether it is sent to a client or his followers on Instagram. Not that it hinders the illustrator, his work is able to take on multiple platforms 6
with the aid of digital tools as he finds it is very important be digitally proficient in this day and age, and sharing his work to connect with the world. Vest’s drawing style is an immediate result and response to his upbringing, and home town in Stockton-On-Tees. Through gritty, spontaneous expressions within line and material the artist strives to capture a sense of the moment, himself and surroundings. Creative Review ‘Talentspotting’ scouted Alan as one of eleven graduates as part of the ‘Gradwatch’ scheme, in partnership with JCDecaux. He has illustrated a magazine cover for The Brussels Times as well as illustrating for The Guardian Newspaper on a weekly basis. THE FESTIVAL OF ILLUSTRATION 2017
ANGELA KEELER
Angela is a Midlands-based Graphic Designer and Illustrator, now working freelance after several years in the advertising and fashion industries. She graduated with a masters in Visual Communication in 2008 following a BA in Fine Art and English Literature and some time abroad. Fashion is a big influence on her personal style, as well as the minimalist aesthetic that has fed through from her work in design.
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AXEL SCHEFFLER
Axel Scheffler was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1957. He studied history of art in Hamburg, before moving to the United Kingdom to study illustration at Bath Academy of Art in 1982. Since then he has worked as a freelance illustrator in London. He is best known for the children’s books he has illustrated through his partnership with author, Julia Donaldson. Together they created The Gruffalo, which has sold over 13.5 million copies, in over 50 countries throughout the world.
The Gruffalo © Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 1999 - Macmillan Children’s Books
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BEN CLOWES
Ben studied illustration at Cambridge School of Art (now part of Anglia Ruskin University) and went on to be a freelance illustrator specialising in editorial work with clients including, The Observer, BBC Publishing and The Oldie. He has continued his practice as well as expanding into exhibitions both group and solo. He has been commissioned over the years to help create and set up a number of arts based social enterprises working with numerous bodies and institutions. Having taken on the role as Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Illustration for Commercial Application at Cleveland College of Art and Design Ben has taken great pleasure in curating the Festival of Illustration and seeing the Illustration programme grow from strength-to-strength.
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BENJI DAVIES Benji Davies has always loved creating images on the page, and seeing his work in print is a childhood ambition fulfilled; it gets no less exciting every time a freshly published box of books arrives on his doorstep. After studying animation at university, Benji went on to direct animated commercials, music promos and short films, before embarking fully upon his picture book career.
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He is the illustrator of Nosy Crow’s start-up list favourite, Bizzy Bear, which is now being rolled out as a series of apps to compliment the books. Having successfully developed his own award-winning author / illustrated work with publisher, Simon & Schuster (The Storm Whale, Grandad’s Island and The Storm Whale in Winter) Benji is currently working on more of his own self authored work with publisher Harper Collins, and his new picture book, The Grotlyn will be published later on this year, alongside a staple of further picture book commissions and TV broadcasting opportunities, born of his picture book work. Benji’s books, co-editioned in many languages, have won awards internationally.
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CHRIS LOVELL
Christopher Lovell is a UK based artist who specialises primarily in illustration for clothing companies and band merchandise. Christopher is self-taught and his influences started very early on in his childhood where he developed a deep interest in fantasy and sci-fi. He was captivated by toys, cartoons and films which helped to fuel his imagination and which still inspire him to this day. Christopher is currently limiting his client work while he concentrates on building on his personal portfolio. Christopher feels his best work has come from when he has no restrictions on his creativity and he can let his imagination thrive. He has a rapidly growing fan base online with people all over the world acknowledging his work and his personal pieces are those that are best received.
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DAN MUMFORD
Dan Mumford is a freelance illustrator working out of a studio space in London UK. Working mainly in the music/film/pop culture genre, he has worked with numerous clients including Xbox, Little White Lies, Metal Hammer, Arrow Films, Studio Canal, MGM, Phish, Gallows & FrightFest. Alongside this he produces numerous art prints and personal projects throughout the year.
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DREW MILLWARD
Drew Millward was born in 1981 in Coventry; he grew up in Bolton, studied and lived in Leeds for many years and now lives in a quarry in the Aire Valley. He has been drawing pictures since around 2004. Drew likes to draw ‘the old fashioned way’, using pencils, pens and a love of the craft of illustration. While his subject matter can vary dramatically, he hopes that the attention to detail and the love of drawing is apparent throughout his work. He has exhibited throughout the US, UK, Europe and beyond, as well as having the pleasure of creating work for an ever growing international client base.
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DWAYNE BELL
As a lecturer in illustration at The University of Cumbria, Dwayne spends a lot of his time telling students to “draw more”, so it’s only fair that he practices what he preaches. He is never far from an A5 Leuchtturm1917 sketchbook and pen. With that in mind his website gathers together small collections of my current drawing output. In particular it acts as a portfolio for work developed during his ongoing MA in Creative Practice, in which he is focusing on capturing stories and characters through responsive drawing. Dwayne’s background is in graphic design and illustration but for a number of years, he has been a fortunate member of the graphic design and illustration teams at The University of Cumbria.
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FELT MISTRESS
Felt Mistress AKA Louise Evans is a UK based stitcher and prolific tea drinker who creates a range of one-off bespoke creatures with her partner, illustrator Jonathan Edwards. Originally trained in fashion design and millinery, Louise has brought many of the skills learnt through years of work as a couture dress maker to the world of character design. As well as original Felt Mistress characters Louise has also collaborated with a variety of other artists including Jon Burgerman, Jon Knox (Hello, Brute), Ben Newman and Pete Fowler (Louise created “John Evans” from Pete’s designs for Gruff Rhys’ “American Interior” film, 2014). Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally and in 2010 she was given her own window on Oxford Street as part of Selfridges’ Christmas display. In 2011, together with Jonathan, she spent 6 weeks in Japan creating work for a gallery residency in Nara which culminated in headlining the Headspace arts festival in Osaka. In 2013 she was a speaker and exhibitior at the prestigious international character design festival, Pictoplasma, in Berlin and staged her largest exhibition yet, The Hiber-Nation, at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. It featured her biggest creations to date including a 9ft tall “Hugger”.
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FRANCES MOFFAT
Frances Moffatt is a freelance illustrator and Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Illustration for Commercial Application programme at Cleveland College of Art & Design. She has worked for a range of high profile clients across editorial and publishing, and is the author/illustrator of Fashion Exercise Book, a colouring in and doodle book published by leading art and design publisher Batsford.
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FRED BLUNT
Fred didn’t want to be an astronaut or train driver when he grew up. Right from the beginning he knew he wanted to draw silly pictures for a living. Some decades later, he’s living the dream! Fred has worked on all manner of projects, including editorial, advertising and designing animations for the BBC. He now works in children’s publishing, writing and illustrating the ‘Captain Falsebeard’ series for Puffin, alongside other picture book collaborations, with Michelle Robinson and Will Mabbitt, amongst other. Born 1975, BA Hons Illustration UWE 1996.
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GERAlD SCARFE
Gerald Scarfe was born in London. He established himself as a satirical cartoonist, working for Punch magazine and Private Eye during the early 1960s. He has had many exhibitions worldwide and more than 50 one-man shows. He has designed the sets and costumes for plays, operas and musicals in London, Houston, Los Angeles and Detroit. His film work includes designing and directing the animation for Pink Floyd’s The Wall, and Disney’s Hercules. Scarfe has written and directed many live action and documentary films for BBC and Channel 4 and has published many books of his work. He also created the opening title sequences for the classic comedy series, Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. Gerald Scarfe has been political cartoonist for the London Sunday Times for 46 years, and his work regularly appears in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, Vogue & Tatler. He was made a CBE in the 2008 Queen’s Birthday Honours. He has received Honorary Degrees from the University of Dundee, University of Liverpool and University of Kent, and was also made an Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee.
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GODMACHINE
Godmachine was born in Cardiff, South Wales, it was a difficult birth; his parents were in London at the time. He grew up on a steady diet of nothing, 2000AD comics, Santa Cruz skateboards and old library books of Klimt and Beardsley. His art is born of Jim Philips, raised by Simon Bisley and adopted by his everyday influences; film, literature and music. He uses a wacom, photoshop and coffee to achieve his detailed images that have made quite an impact on band merch, skateboards and clothing companies today. He owns 2 cats and has a worrying amount of coffee mugs with cats on them. Although a vegetarian and a devout anti-theist he collects animal skulls, animal horns and crucifixs along with old discarded black and white photos.
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HYDRO 74
Gabriel is an artist based in Madrid. Although he is best known for his work as illustrator in advertising, where his experience and reach is remarkable, in the last few years he has also successfully developed his personal line of art. His pieces make striking statements about female beauty through graphic and elegant images. His works are usually comprised of flowing and precise fine black lines, over which he deploys shocks of colour accenting on clothing, faces, or environments. He uses dramatic gradients of colours and multiple layers that emerge from the images and involvement of the figures. In order to fulfil his vision, he works with etching and he uses multiple artistic mediums and tools such as pencil, ink, marker, watercolour, and digital art.
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JAMIE SMART
Jamie has worked extensively for The Dandy, The Beano, The DFC, The Phoenix, as well as The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Mega, Toxic, Doctor Who Adventures and others. Jamie has released books through Scholastic, OUP, Penguin, Blank Slate, Random House, SLG, and David Fickling Books. Jamie worked in show development at Cartoon Network for many years, character designed for Disney, and had a few TV shows roll through the development process. Also producing webcomics such as Whubble and Corporate Skull.
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JAne HISSEY
It is over 30 years since Jane Hissey published her first picture book, ‘Old Bear’. Since then she has written and illustrated over 25 books, featuring soft toy characters that belong to her family and friends. Her books have won worldwide acclaim, have sold over 7 million copies and featured in the BAFTA award-winning TV series, ‘Old Bear Stories’. Jane has three grown up children and lives in Sussex with her husband, Ivan, who is also an illustrator.
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JIM STOTEN
Jim Stoten is an illustrator based in London, UK. Over the last several years Jim’s unique style and fun illustrations have been commissioned for an impressive list of clients including MTV, Habitat, Levi’s, Urban Outfitters and The Guardian. He frequently exhibits his work in galleries around the globe.
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JOE TODd-STANTON
Joe Todd-Stanton grew up in Brighton and was taught to draw by his mother, who is also an illustrator. He studied at UWE Bristol, receiving a first class degree in Illustration. Stanton has been commissioned to work for clients such as Oxford University Press, Usborne Publishing and Aquila magazine. He was also a contributor for Nobrow 9 Magazine. He quotes Maurice Sendak and Tove Jansson amongst his greatest influences.
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JON BURGERman
Jon Burgerman is a UK born, NYC based artist instigating improvisation and play through drawing and spectacle. He is a purveyor of doodles and is often credited and referenced as the leading figure in the popular ‘Doodle’ art style. His work is placed between fine art, urban art and pop-culture, using humour to reference and question his contemporary milieu. His is a pervasive and instantly recognisable aesthetic that exists across a multitude of forms including canvases, large scale murals (indoor and outside), sculpture, toys, apparel, design, print and people (as tattoos and temporary drawings).
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JONATHaN EDWARDS
Jonathan’s work first appeared in 1993 in Deadline and Tank Girl Magazine with strips such as Dandy Dilemma, Simon Creem, The Squabbling Dandies and one pagers about Scott Walker, Sly Stone, Nancy Sinatra, Kraftwerk and The Beach Boys. Since then I’ve worked for the Guardian, Mojo, Q, Mad, The Black Eyed Peas, A Skillz & Krafty Kuts, The Jungle Brothers, The Glastonbury Festival, etc. His comics include Aunt Connie & The Plague of Beards, A Bag Of Anteaters (with Ian Carney) and Two Coats McWhinnie (also with Carney). I’ve also been a regular contributor to the Guardian since 1999 and illustrated the Hard Sell weekly column in the Guide from 2002 - 2011. Jonathan’s character design work includes collaborations with his partner, Louise (AKA Felt Mistress), and my vinyl toy, Inspector Cumulus available from Crazylabel toys.
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LAURA QUICK
An award winning illustrator and author, with a particular interest in observing everyday life. Laura often collaborates, pushing new concepts and experiences, aligning with strategy, within her specialist area of illustration and design. Humour often coming together with luxury brands, it’s all about the small things, the details. The things we forget to take notice of. Work so far including lookbooks, ad campaigns and visual merchandising, publishing, editorial, and online, Laura’s work is created by hand. Clients include AnotherMag, Grazia, Marie Claire, Hermes and Joseph.
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lawrence goldsmith
Lawrence started out training as a medical artist at Guy’s Hospital in London, however, he really wanted to be a comic artist and cartoonist. He met the now famous John Higgins, also a bored medical artist trainee, who was another aspiring comic artist. John started being successful and introduced Lawrence to the editor of Marvel comics UK. Lawrence managed to get enough comic work from Marvel, IPC, DC Thompson etc. to give up medical art and go freelance. On starting a family he wanted more financial stability so he took a job as studio manager of the South London Guardian newspaper group. That led on to working on the Daily Mail art desk. From there he was offered a job as staff artist on the Daily Mirror where he still is 27 years later.
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LUCY MACLEOD
Lucy’s work has adorned billboards, album covers, calendars, cosmetics, a range of clothing, magazine covers and even ladies underwear... Her clients include British Airways, Levi Strauss, La Perla, Royal Mail, BBH Advertising, Harvey Nichols, Bare Minerals, Selfridges, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, Elle, Marie Claire and Nylon Magazine. Following a break to look after her two daughters and a relocation to the depths of the Scottish Borders in 2012, Lucy’s work has focused specifically on Beauty and Fashion which has resulted in several creative collaborations and exhibitions with other leading fashion illustrators and also guest lectures at London College of Fashion. She was recently invited to draw live runway illustrations at Christopher Kane’s SS17 collection presentation in Mayfair, London. Lucy’s originals and prints sell internationally to private and commercial clients and upcoming projects include an exhibition of original paintings and drawings with a curated group of prominent fashion artists following the success a similar group show at Magma (Covent Garden, London) in July 2016.’
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LUKE HEALY
Luke Healy was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. He received a BA in Journalism from Dublin City University, and an MFA in Cartooning from The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, USA. His comics work has been published in several anthologies and he has also worked as a colouring assistant with Lucy Knisley on her book Something New.
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Matt bailey
Matthew Bailey is a blackwork artist, currently based in Cheltenham, England. Having graduated from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, he has since been working as a freelance illustrator, graphic designer, and tattoo artist. Since graduation, his work has gained popularity via Instagram, now boasting a following of over two hundred and fifty thousand people. The content of his work primarily focuses on on skeletal figures, with themes of sexuality, sense of self, and modern romance. Currently working as a tattoo arists at No Regrets Cheltenham, Matt aims to continue to expand his work and travel to tattoo across the world.
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MOOSE KIDS COMICS
Moose Kids Comics was set up as an idea, the comic we’d like to make as artists. It wasn’t designed with any business plan, or any attempt at mass distribution. Instead Moose Kids Comics is a statement. It’s a declaration of what we can do. It’s concrete proof of the high quality entertainment we can create, and the heart and passion of all the talented artists who want to help change children’s comics for the better. All 4 issues can be downloaded absolutely free from www.moosekidcomics.com
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PETRA BORNER
Petra Börner grew up in Sweden with artistic ambition, drawing inspiration from her great grandfather- an entrepreneur, painter & photographer. Being from a family of doctors, her first commission was illustrating medical journals. Having gained skills assisting illustrators in the early 90’s, an urge to engage with art in new mediums brought her to London to study fashion at Central St Martins. She started getting commissioned by design-led publications like Elle & Vogue. She assisted Sherald Lamden, an eye opening time bridging art, music & fashion. She realised her real passion was in art, exhibitions followed. With entrepreneurial drive she created fashion & accessory brands in early 2000, later turning her attention to paper goods and creating award- winning illustrations. Her signature cut paper artwork, appreciated for the analogue quality, now feature in collaborations with the Oscars, Louis Vuitton and Tiffany’s. Atelier is a showcase for Börner’s private art, she explores her surreal work through a wide range of media, including ceramics.
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RACHEL CLOWES
Rachel has worked on a variety of projects including Children’s magazines, BBC television’s Playdays storytime, baby board books and educational books. Her second children’s picture book in a series with Zonderkidz / Harper Collins Christian was published in the UK on the 4th May. ‘Christmas Love Letters from God’, written by Glenys Nellist and Illustrated by Rachel, is currently a finalist in The Christian Book Awards. Clients include:
Zonderkidz/ Harper Collins Christian Egmont Michael O’ Mara Buster Books
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Race Point Publishing STEW Magazine BBC Publishing Pearson Education
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RICHARD JONES
Born in Warwickshire, Richard Jones has been living and working in Devon for over 20 years. After graduating from the University of Plymouth with a first class degree in Graphic Design and Illustration, he stayed on a little longer to complete a PhD. Richard’s style is something different, working with beautifully layered textures, he creates stand-out illustration, with a gentle, muted palette and memorable character design. He has recently illustrated two picture books; Feelings and Town Mouse, Country Mouse, both written by Libby Walden and published by Little Tiger Press. Richard is currently working with Walker Books on his own author/ illustrated picture book — an exciting project, which for now is completely under wraps! His next picture book, The Snow Lion, by Jim Helmore, will be published in September this year with Simon and Schuster.
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RYAN QUICKFALL
Ryan Quickfall is a Newcastle based illustrator working from his studio in the city. He draws influence from B-Movie posters, comic book art, retro skate graphics and absolutely anything Motorcycle orientated. Using his signature style of solid black line work and bold colours to create instantly recognisable illustration and graphics for apparel lines, branding, ad campaigns, event posters and book covers. Recently Ryan’s work has taken a turn to an art based outlet. Producing original works and limited edition prints which have lead to high profile solo shows both in the UK and USA.
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SANDRA DIECKMANN
Sandra Dieckmann is a London-based artist, illustrator and potter. She is best known for her colourful, patterned and intricate drawings of nature and wildlife. In 2011 Sandra was chosen by Oscar-winning animator and illustrator Shaun Tan as the Emerging Talent in Illustration for her image ‘Fox Tree’. She runs a hugely succesful Etsy store and also sells her work through her studio, Mama Wolf, in East London.
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SECRET SOC13TY
Luke ‘DINGO’ Foley, is a tattoo artist/illustrator working out of Secret Soc13ty tattoo in Hartlepool. 4 years tattooing working in a new school style heavily influenced by traditional tattooing and music and illustration. Working with markers, acrylic, pencil and ink to create a vibrant mix of styles. Melissa Scott is a tattoo artist based at Secret Soc13ty, Hartlepool. Her work is predominately realism with influences coming from popular culture, horror and nature. Most of her work has a high level of detail and accuracy, to achieve this she uses coloured pencils as her main medium. Callum Griffiths is a graduate of Illustration for Commercial application from Cleveland College of Art and Design where he developed his process and style of illustration. He is now working out of Secret Soc13ty as a first year apprentice. He specialises in bold black traditional tattooing and black work illustrations that are achieved with ink and water. Alex “Tallboy” Williamson is the owner of Secret Soc13ty Tattoo Studio, based in Hartlepool and Brighton. Specialising in Newschool and Realism, he’s been tattooing for 7 and a half years now, always working to improve and create new ideas. His art background made tattooing an obvious choice of career, allowing him to use what he learnt at CCAD to forge a career in the incredibly competitive world of tattooing.
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STUART TROTTER
Stuart Trotter is an experienced illustrator, author and designer who has recently relocated back to the North East. He has mainly illustrated for the children’s publishing industry, his first job being Portland Bill (for Purnell). Over the years his client list has included most children’s book publishers such as; Walker Books, David Bennett Books, Reed, Egmont, Heinemann, Victoria House, Treehouse, Parragon, Hodder Children’s Books, Usborne, Oxford University Press, Pearson, Scholastic, Ladybird, Azbookvarik, La Coccinella, Random House, to name but a few! As a character artist Stuart has worked on family favourites from classic titles to Disney characters, including Winnie the Pooh, Wallace and Gromit, Noddy, Thomas the Tank Engine, Topsy and Tim, Kipper, Postman Pat, and is now the author and illustrator of Rupert Bear for Egmont’s Rupert Bear Annual. As well as illustrating for publishers, Stuart has illustrated for design and advertising companies, including Saatchi & Saatchi’s NSPCC bullying campaign, which was nominated for best use of illustration in advertising. Stuart is very versatile, style wise. He works in pencil, pen, paint, and digital, and usually all together. Stuart created Rockpool Children’s Books in 2006, publisher of quality children’s picture and board books. He is publisher, creative director, commissioning editor, author, illustrator, designer, and producer!
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TARA MCPHERSON
Tara McPherson is an artist based out of New York City. Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. She explores, through portraiture, the realms of our psychological states via myths, legends, astronomy, physics, nature, love, loss, childhood and good old life experience. Giving us a peek into the complexities of the human psyche through her otherwordly characters. Tara exhibits her paintings and serigraphs in fine art galleries all over the world. Named the crown princess of poster art by ELLE Magazine, she has created numerous gig posters for rock bands such as Beck, Modest Mouse, and Mastodon. Her array of art also includes a variety of toys with Kidrobot, painted covers for DC Vertigo Comics, advertising illustrations for companies such as Wyden+Kennedy, Publicis, and Bernstein Andrulli. She also taught in the Illustration department at Parsons for 4 years.
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AOI Project Manager Derek Brazell with Illustrators Ben Tallon and Sandra Dieckmann discuss the challenges around self promotion and getting your work to the right people in the right way!
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TOM J NEWELL
Tom J Newell produces intricately hand-drawn illustrations and large scale artworks for a number of International clients. He was selected to create the 2017 Festival of Illustration branding. He has designed gig posters for Daniel Johnston, MF DOOM, Sleaford Mods and The Gaslamp Killer. He continues to paint an ever-increasing series of murals for The Kraken Rum with POSCA Pens, who sponsor his work for many projects. Tom has collaborated with many other artists on joint exhibitions and artworks, most notably as part of The Dead Sea Mob alongside Dan Mumford, Drew Millward, Godmachine, Skinner, and Twisted Loaf.
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TOR FREEMAN
Tor Freeman is an author, illustrator and comic artist. Over the last 18 years, she has illustrated several picture books and young chapter books, written her own stories and been published widely in the UK and the US. In 2012 she was awarded the Sendak fellowship and spent a month’s residency in the artist’s home in Connecticut. Tor’s most recent books include the Digby Dog series, and The Toucan Brothers. She also regularly updates her webcomic, Welcome to Oddleigh. Tor lives in London and shares a studio in Soho.
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VICTORIA TURNBULL
Victoria Turnbull was born in York, and spent her childhood absorbed by books and drawing. After studying Graphic Design at Staffordshire University, she joined the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, graduating in 2013. As part of her MA, Vic created a picture book, The Sea Tiger, which saw her named the winner of the Association of Illustrators New Talent Award 2013 (Children’s Books Category). The Sea Tiger was published by Templar in June 2014 and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Vic now lives in London and has had two further picture books published as both author-illustrator; Kings of the Castle (Templar, 2016) and Pandora (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2016).
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WARWICK JOHNSON CADWELL
Warwick Johnson Cadwell has been drawing stories as long as he can remember: through school, university and all the day jobs he has done. He has illustrated books for Kane Miller Books, Walker Books, and magazines including New Republic, Fortean Times, and frequent appearances in The Guardian. Having received enthusiastic encouragement from others through his blog, he began working in comics. Over the last couple of years, his work has appeared in Birdsong, New British Comics, Solipsistic Pop and West comic anthologies. He produced the comic Derek Danger with his frequent collaborator Robert Ball, The 24 Hour comic Tom Hand, done at the 2014 Lakes Festival, and more recently he has been drawing Tank Girl, Helena Crash and is currently working on Mr. Higgins Comes Home, with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.
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ZOMBIEDOLLARS
Nik Holmes, aka ZombieDollars, digs up the rotting carcass of pop culture, stitches it together in his lab and slaps the resulting abomination onto tee shirts, prints and walls! Combining the flat, bold lines of old school Graffiti with the razzle dazzle of retro corporate branding his characters are equal parts Saturday Morning cartoons and classic american horror served in big old slice of the very worst modern popular culture has to offer!
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