This September the HOUSE OF ILLUSTRATION asked artists and illustrators to do a one-inch drawing for each day of the month inspired by John Vernon Lord who, in 2016, did a drawing for every single day of the year.
Several of our students took on the 30 day challenge including ELLEN KNOWLES and LORRAINE ANSELL– bellow are some of the illustrations they created for the brief;
ELLEN KNOWLES
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LORRAINE ANSELL
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Each year the Illustration BA travel to another city to spend several days sketching, exploring and taking in a new environment. This year’s destination Amsterdam; below is just a small sample of the work produced by our students and staff on the trip;
MEGAN WILSON
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YOUSAF HUSSAIN
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MARTIN URSELL (TUTOR)
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JESS MACADAM
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PAULINA KSIAZKIEWICZ
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AMY SCOTT
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JOANA CARVALHO
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ALDOUS EVELEIGH (Drawing Tutor)
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SAUDAH MUKADAM
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ELISSE VAHI
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MARIANNA FERNANDES
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WILSON SO
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NAIMA RAMANAN
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MERT GOKBERK
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VALERIYA KORBINA
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ALEX MOORE (GAA)
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BEN HENDY (GAA)
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Tonight sees the opening of our latest exhibition at the Poetry Society Cafe in Covent Garden. POETRY RE-VIEWED features illustration by our students inspired by the poems in the winter issue of The Poetry Review.
The exhibition features paintings, prints and paper cut-outs and runs from February 5th – March 16th. All works are for sale; proceeds go towards the students’ final degree show.
INÉS SMITH-BALLESTER
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ANNA STUBBERFIELD
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HANNAH CARWARDINE
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JAMIE PRYOR
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LYDIA HILL
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MAGGIE DAVIES
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With the announcement of this year’s winner of the Observer/Cape/Comica prize this weekend The Guardian newspaper has ran a series of interviews with the competition’s previous winners.
The the graphic short story prize has been running since 2007 to showcase the work of cartoonist and comic creators who have yet to be published. In 2012 the competition was won by graduate CORBAN WILKIN with his four page story BUT I CAN’T;
Find more of Corban’s work online;
#Inktober’s back! Each year artists across the globe take part in this annual challenge- Here’s a round up of some of the daily drawings by our students and graduates for 2017;
ALEXANDRA SURUGIU
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LUKE SPICER
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SHAZLEEN KHAN
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CHARLES JOHNSTON
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Earlier this year Senior Lecturer MARTIN URSELL and Life Drawing tutor ALDOUS EVELEIGH accompanied Middlesex’s Science and Technology faculty on their annual trip to Mauritius. During this the students work with the Durrell Foundation on their pink pigeon conservation program. Through reportage Martin and Aldous (along with fellow sketchbook-er and senior lecturer Peter Thomas) documented the work of the Durrell team in saving the critically endangered animals of Mauritius and further, how they worked with the university’s Natural Sciences students. Below are a small selection from the drawings they brought back- if would like to read about the trip in more detail click this link to Martin, Peter and Aldous’ blog.
To cut to the punchline, this led to my meeting Lee Durrell and being invited by her to attend an award ceremony, and afternoon of discussion at the Natural History Museum,
ALDOUS EVELEIGH (Drawing Tutor)
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MARTIN URSELL (2nd year tutor | Illustration MA course leader)
As part of his final year recent graduate CHARLES JOHNSTON created this short comic about the possible mysteries that lurk below the ocean’s surface for the annual Johnathan Cape competition;
Find more of Charlie’s work online;
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Graduate JAMES OSES was recently commissioned by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings to illustrate their Spitalfields headquarters. The SPAB was co-founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877, and has since been devoted to the protection of historic buildings in the UK and elsewhere.
The black and white illustration was drawn on location and will be featured on canvas bags and postcards;
Find more of Jame’s work online:
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Edwina Dunn’s The Female Lead profiles sixty inspirational women from all walks of life with words, photos and illustrations. From artists to politicians, journalists to teachers, all these women have inspired change or broken new ground.
Graduate AMBER COOPER-DAVIES provided all the artwork in the book, illustrating an significant item to each of the women featured;
Helena Morrissey
Katherin Viner
Laura Bates
Lena Dunham
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Roya Mahboob
Sandy Powell
Tracey Edwards
Yvette Vega
Laurene Powell Jobs
As part of her second year work student WIKTRORIA RADKIEWICZ created DER MORGIGE TAG IST MEIN, an illustrated book about Unity Mitford. Unity was English socialite- turned Fascist who became part of Hitler’s inner circle.Below are a selection of pages from the project;
Find more of Wiktoria’s work online;
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