Illustrative Collage Workshop report

The workshop at the V&A took place last weekend. It was really inspiring to see the students' creative work. I've written a guest blog post on the V&A site about the day. You can also see some of the students' artwork created on the day.

Workshop at V&A on June 6th

I'm giving a one day workshop in illustrative collage at the Victoria and Albert Museum on June 6. The workshop will explore different collage techniques - both physical and digital. Attendees will create their own unique illustrations inspired by motifs in the V&A collections. You can find out more about the day here

Life Drawing 2

Here are some more recent works from the life drawing class. I've started experimenting with colour and mixing media. We had a live pianist in the class today which was a treat!

Illustrations for Liberty Annual Report

I was commissioned by Liberty (an organisation that campaigns for civil liberties and human rights in the UK) to design their 2014 Annual review. I created a number of images to illustrate the different fields in which they work.

Exposing immigration detention

Questioning unsafe and unfair counter-terror policy

Inspiring public action

Protecting privacy

You can see more of this project on my website. It's an area I find really interesting and it was a great project to work on.

Life drawing

Since the start of the year I've been attending life drawing classes. The poses are between 2 and 20 minutes and there is a different model every 2 weeks - so there's a lot of variety. I prefer to work in ink and have found this medium to be particularly effective for shorter poses.

Merry Christmas!

RCA14 Animation

I went to see the extremely impressive RCA 2014 animation show over the weekend. Below are the trailers (or snippets) of some of my particular favourites. Outstanding work!

Inkee Wang

Marcus Armitage

Nicolas Menard

Loop Ring Chop Drink — Trailer (2014) from Nicolas Ménard on Vimeo.

Living Links

I created this image for Living Links, an Irish charity offering emotional and practical support to those bereaved by suicide. This weekend (Sunday 29 June, 3pm) there will be a Remembrance Event at Brigit’s Church, Killeshandra, Cavan for family and friends who have lost a loved one to suicide.

OCDF14 in situ

Open City Docs Fest 2014 took place last week and it was truly an inspiring and entertaining few days. You can check out the full list of nominees and winners on the OCDF site. Big congratulations to all the filmmakers and the Open City team for making such a great festival.

Open City Docs Fest 2014 Launch

Open City Docs Fest 2014 launches today. The festival is now in it's fourth year and I am happy to say it's also my fourth time to work on the art direction and visual identity. I'm looking forward to the opening gala this evening which will be followed by a screening of "The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers" taking place at the Bloomsbury Theatre.

Below are a couple of pictures from the press launch a couple of weeks ago or to get a moving picture of what's in store for this year's festival, take a look at the very cool trailer which was created by Simon Ball. 

OC2014 Trailer from Open City Docs on Vimeo.

And here's the festival catalog. The festival runs from 17 – 22 June.  Visit the site to book your tickets!

Pocket Places Peckham in situ

Here are a couple of images from the Pocket Places Peckham Spaces event which took place along Rye Lane over the weekend. It was a great event and was vey well received by the local community. Well done Hannah!