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Education

2007 – 2009  MA Communication Art and Design, Royal College of Art, London
2004 – 2007  BA Illustration, Camberwell College, University of the Arts, London
2003 – 2004  Art and Design Foundation Year, John Cass Department, London Metropolitan University
1999 – 2002  BA Ancient History and Archaeology, University College London

 

 

Awards

2009  Sheila Robinson Prize for Drawing
2008  Oberon Book Awards, Second Prize for illustrating Ice by Anna Kavan
2007  Fine Art Bursary awarded by the Company of Painters and Stainers

 

 

Group Exhibitions

2010  RCA Secret, London
2010  Silent Witnesses: Graphic Novels Without Words, The Collection, Lincoln
2010  Draw, RCA, London
2009  Bare Bones, Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery, London
2009  Summer Salon, Minnie Weisz Studios, London
2009  RCA Show 2, Royal College of Art, London
2008  Le Gun “The Family”, Rochelle School, London
2007  Bestiality, Madam Lillies, London
2006  Today Is A Beautiful Day, Nog Gallery, London
2005  The Hunting, Close-Up Film Library, London

 

 

Commissions

 

2009 - continuing, Illustrations for In the Cut, a digital fashion column for AnOther Magazine

2011  Grey, illustrations
2010  Poetry News, portrait commission
2010  Portrait series for Luella's Guide to English Style, Harper Collins
2010  Portrait series for Too Much Night, Syntax Editions 2
2010  Live drawing at the Antonio Berardi show for London Fashion Week's The Daily

2010  S/S/Y/K (4) poetry illustration
2010  Monika (2) illustration
2009  Tee Shirt commission for Luella
2009  Marina Warner, The Difference in the Dose, illustrated book, commissioned by the RCA for the Bath Music Festival
2008  Naked Punch, editorial commission
2008  Stop Sharpening Your Knives, CD illustration commission
2006  Dazed and Confused, January issue, editorial commission

 

 

Further published work/press

 

2011 On Illustration by Andrzej Klimowski, two illustrations featured, Oberon Books
2011 The Independent Magazine “The Only Way is Up”, profile, March 2011

2010  Vogue, images for Luella's Guide to English Style featured in “Modern English”, November, 2010

2010  Bare Bones 3
2009  Bare Bones 2
2009  Wallpaper, Graduate Directory, 2010
2009  Ambit, Issue 198
2009  Global Contexts, Basics Illustration series, Mark Williams ed. (AVA), Blue Hotel featured
2009  Creative Review online, Mark Sinclair, June 2009, “RCA Show 2: Communication Art and Design”
2009  The Visual Dictionary of Illustration, Mark Williams ed. (AVA)
2008  Ambit, Issue 194
2008  Le Gun, Issue 4
2008  Text and Image, Mark Williams ed. (AVA)
2007  Sequential Images, Mark Williams ed.  (AVA publishing)
2007  Le Gun, Issue 3



Other

2009  Love and Theft: Drawing, Appropriation and the Cinematic a talk with artist, Anne-Marie Creamer about drawing and film stills, RCA
2008  The Sudden Image: Intensity and Disorientation in the films of David Lynch, MA, dissertation