Exhibitions & events

Open Illustration Forum 2011

9:30am to 4:30pm, 11 March 2011

Woodlane Lecture Theatre, Woodlane Campus, Falmouth TR11 4RH

Metamorphosis: Interpretation and Adaptation in Illustration

MA Illustration: Authorial Practice at University College Falmouth would like to invite you to its 9^th Annual Illustration Forum.   

A day of presentations and discussion exploring the illustrator as interpreter and adaptor of texts and ideas, chaired by writer and broadcaster Paul Gravell.

This year's guest speakers include Lorenzo Mattotti, George Hardie, John Vernon Lord and Orly Orbach.

Tickets: SOLD OUT

Biographies

Paul Gravett (Chair)
Sometimes known as 'The Man at the Crossroads', Paul Gravett is a freelance journalist, curator, lecturer, writer and broadcaster most well known for his involvement in the world of comics and Graphic novels. Gravett co-edited and co-published the influential British comics culture magazine Escape and its line of graphic novels in the 1980s and directed the Cartoon Art Trust's project in the 1990s to found a cartoon art museum. Since 2001 he has continued to curate and consult on comic art exhibitions and TV series, including Cult Fiction, a Hayward Gallery touring exhibition, and Comics Britannia for BBC4. He started the ComICA festival in 2003 at London's ICA, has written authoritative books on manga, graphic novels and British comics, including most recently The Leather Nun & Other Incredibly Strange Comics (2008) and is the editor of The Mammoth Book Of Best Crime Comics (2008). He writes for The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Dazed & Confused, Comics International, The Bookseller and other periodicals.Gravett is a judge on the Obsever/Cape graphic short story prize.
www.paulgravett.com

Lorenzo Mattotti
Lorenzo Mattotti is an Italian comics and graphic artist as well as an illustrator. He began to make comics after studying architecture in Venice. Since then Mattotti has produced books for both adults and children whilst also working in fashion and advertising. He is famous for his idiosyncratic visual style. His first works were published in France for the magazine Circus and since then he has been published many times with works including Il signor Spartaco, L'uomo alla finestra, Stigmate, Ligne fragile, and many others. His work has been translated into many languages and books published by Penguin in the UK include Fires and Murmur. His illustrations have been published in magazines such as Cosmopolitan , Vogue, the New Yorker, Le Monde and Vanity Fair. In comics, Mattotti won an Eisner Award in 2003 for his Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde graphic novel. He is mainly inspired by painters, musicians, writers and directors. To him, the relation between text and image should be the same as with text and music. The two should enrich each other. Unusually, in Mattotti's comics the text illustrates the illustration instead of the other way around. He always makes sure the text has enough freedom for multiple interpretations. Mattotti's graphic novel Stigmata has recently been published in English. He has also been working on a new book The Raven with Lou Reed to be published this year.
www.mattotti.com

Orly Orbach
Orly Orbach is a graduate of University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art. She is known for her dark, mysterious illustrations and takes inspiration from a wide range of sources including Edgar Allan Poe and Maya Angelou. Her work is inspired by the written word as well as visual imagery and performance and often explores how stories mutate and transform as they are passed from one person/generation/culture to another. Orly uses ancient and modern myths, fables, poetry and plays, which she reinterprets and incorporates into her own visual narratives. She is interested in the connection between illustration and theatre, or drawing and action. She has produced work for album covers and theatre productions such as the Masque of the Red Death produced by the company Punchdrunk. Recently she has made artwork for the upcoming British film The Sea Change. She also works on site specific installations and murals.
orlyorbach.com

George Hardie
George Hardie is an illustrator, graphic designer and educator, best known for his work producing legendary record covers for the albums of rock musicians and bands with the British art design group Hipgnosis. After attending St Martin's and the Royal College of Art, Hardie partnered in Nicholas Thirkell Associates (NTA Studios) collaborating with Bob Lawrie, Bush Hollyhead and Malcolm Harrison. His work includes the cover artwork for Led Zeppelin's debut album, Led Zeppelin, as well as that for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.  Since 1990, Hardie has taught postgraduate students of graphic design at the University of Brighton, and was until recently programme leader on the MA in Sequential Design & Illustration course. In 1994, Hardie became a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, for which he now serves as International Secretary. He has worked in illustration for over four decades with clients including Pentagram and Macmillan. Hardie has been a successful illustrator since the 70's and has been a huge influence on British illustration and design. Besides working hard on commissions, George is particularly interested in self-publishing and has produced a large number of self-authored books.
artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk

John Vernon Lord
John Vernon Lord is a book illustrator and author-illustrator of children's picture books including The Giant Jam Sandwich and The Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear. His books have been translated into many languages and The Giant Sandwich has been in print for 35 years. Lord has spent the past half-century as both highly successful illustrator and educator, his output including illustrations for Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Aesop's Fables He also illustrated the Icelandic Sagas for the Folio Society. He taught for many years at Brighton University. In his book, Drawing Upon Drawing, John states that: ‘Illustration is art, but it's an accessible art. In a nutshell, illustration is the art of the people.' Recently, he has worked with The Folio Society, and the Inky Parrot Press, illustrating Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
www.absoluteastronomy.com

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