illustration Archives

Visual Stories: An Interview with Eileen Cooper

16/03/2021

London-based artist Eileen Cooper speaks to Millie Walton about illustrating Angela Carter's writing, printmaking and the imagination...

Drawing Eccentricities: An Interview with Sverre Malling

29/01/2021

Millie Walton speaks to Norwegian artist Sverre Malling about the meditative act of drawing, folkloric imagery and celebrating outsider culture...

New Series From Pansy Project Creator Explores Symbology of Birds

21/07/2020

During lockdown, artist Paul Harfleet refocused his practice to create Birds Can Fly, an exploration of social media, ornithology, fashion, make-up and portraiture....

British Library Acquire Mervyn Peake Visual Archive

15/07/2020

The archive will be available for research on completion of cataloguing in 2022, along with an opportunity to see highlights in future British Library exhibitions....

World Illustration Awards Overall Winners Announced

12/07/2019

All of this year's award winners are displayed alongside the full shortlist at the World Illustration Awards 2019 Exhibition, which runs at Somerset House until 28 July. ...

Control, chaos and geometry: Julien Pacaud

14/07/2017

French illustrator and artist Julien Pacaud makes a study of control, and letting it go...

Photoreal Lines, Kaleidoscopic Colour (Joshua Roman)

02/11/2015

Los Angeles' Joshua Roman has a touch with colour which intrigues the eye...

Power, Protest and Resistance (Molly Crabapple)

27/09/2015

Portrait of Truthful Artist, Illustrator, Broadcaster, Journalist Molly Crabapple. ...

Painting the Broken American Dream (Louie Metz)

08/09/2015

Scantily clad figures whose blank stares emit an aura of disillusionment. Louie Metz paints the seedy and the saddened. ...

Cedric de Smedt : New Work on Video

08/08/2015

‘I’m evolving into a very dark and bitter universe, where emptiness is almost oppressive and where time seems to have stopped'...

Simon Fowler : Interview

18/08/2013

Using a style reminiscent of Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, Fowler's labour intensive work has complemented the avant garde work of Dub and Bass group The Bug, doom sonicists Sun O))), Jap-rock...

Manga to Movies

16/07/2013

Japanese films have retaken the box office in their home market in a major shift not seen since the 1960s....

Miss Led – Street Style Perfection

08/06/2011

Illustration with a street edge, Miss Led's art has moved to galleries, brands have taken note, the rise and rise of graf influenced art continues. Miss Led is a UK based artist with a keen...