From now until March 12th the Illustration BA will be exhibiting work from their new show ‘Beginnings and Endings’ with The Poetry Society at their Covent Garden Poetry Cafe. This year the exhibition features illustrations and imagery inspired by literature’s greatest opening and closing lines. Drawing from writing by the likes of Sylvia Plath, Thomas Pynchon, Ray Bradbury and J.G. Ballard our students and staff have created an eclectic body of work featuring lino prints, watercolour paintings and more. Scroll down to see just a sample of what’s on show.
‘Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.’
CHLOE SMITH
Instagram | Twitter
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‘Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.’
George Orwell, Animal Farm
BEN HENDY (GAA)
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‘He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.’
-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
ANTRIA SOFRONIOU
Twitter | Instagram
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‘It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.’
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
CHARLIE JOHNSTON
Tumblr | Instagram
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‘It was a pleasure to burn.’
-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
VALENTINA PARMIGGIANO
Instagram | Facebook
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‘It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.’
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
SUMMER DU PLESSIS
Website | Instagram
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‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.’
-A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
DANIEL HASKETT (print tutor)
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It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.’
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
WIKTORIA RADKIEWICZ
Facebook | Tumblr | Instagram
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‘We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.’
-Stephen King, The Green Mile
IMOGEN DALE
Instagram | Twitter
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‘A screaming comes across the sky.’
-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
NICOLE COWAN
Tumblr | Twitter | Instagram
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‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’
-George Orwell, 1984
MATT INGRAM
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‘Crossing frontiers is my profession.’
-J.G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights
KATE SIMPSON
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‘For a long time I used to go to bed early.’
-Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
PAUL BARRITT (animation tutor)
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‘When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts…’
-James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss
MOLLY HOWARD-FOSTER
Twitter | Instagram
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‘It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.’
-J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
ROBYN FORMAN
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‘The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
-George Orwell, Animal Farm
ALEXANDRA SURUGIU
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‘There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.’
-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
SHAZLEEN KHAN
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‘There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.’
-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
WIKTORIA RADKIEWICZ
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‘Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger’
-Yann Martel, Life of Pi
ALEX MOORE (GAA)
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‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen’
-George Orwell, 1984
JAMIE PRYOR
Instagram
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‘The old man was dreaming about the lions’
-Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
YURINA SHIMOJU
Twitter | Tumblr
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(Photos courtesy of the Poetry Society)
SALOME PAPADPOULLOS
ANDREW BAKER (1st year tutor)
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