Am on the Back to Now! podcast, which charts (ahem) the Now That’s What I Call Music albums. This time we’re on Now 16, a time where big chunky ballads jostled with so-called dance music, before it went Baggy. Yes, it’s Richard “Karl” Marx and Belinda “Karl”isle – Tears for Fears and Living in a […]
Read moreDelighted to have been asked to contribute a written piece to Bob Stanley and Tessa Norton’s epic 360-page Fall book, out April 1st 2021. Contributors also include Michael Bracewell, Adelle Stripe, Scott King, Mark Fisher, Owen Hatherley and more. “This is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about […]
Read moreIllustration fans – kids and parents. New for a sweltering (or rainy) 2021 – Brent libraries now have the Map Your Summer activity packs in stock. Pick up a pack for free, and map your way around town. There are extras to cut out to the map, lots of space for drawing your own additions, […]
Read moreHaringey Council are celebrating Women’s History Month and they asked me to create four maps for them which are a treasure trove of information about the astonishing women who have lived in the borough. From parachutists in and around Alexandra Palace to women who set up the first schools in the borough; from suffragette potato-throwing […]
Read moreMy illustrations for Alexandra Palace’s Wild in the Park campaign involved curious newts, smiling frogs, wading herons, some dragonflies and more. Nature! If you go to the AP website and click on the list under “half term activities” you’ll see some wonderful creative projects, surrounded by drawings of wildlife and as per, some excitable bees….
Read moreOctober 2020 – seems like an age ago… but it was possible to do things! In a socially distanced way. I was delighted to host an event for Rock n Roll Bookclub E17 talking to Pete Paphides about his fantastic music memoir Broken Greek which details growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s. The book […]
Read moreI was delighted to be asked onto BBC Front Row on the 19th August to talk about the exhibition Love, Art, Loss: The Wives of Stanley Spencer at the Spencer Gallery in Cookham, discussing the show with Samira Ahmed. Spencer is one of my favourite artists and I have visited the gallery many times, but never […]
Read moreYou can catch it here, should you wish. The Yoko Ono Fierce Women show is still on iPlayer, and it was great to be able to walk about her, as shes such a hero of mine. “Yoko Ono is the ultimate outsider. Whether as an artist, musician or peace activist, her anti-conformist attitude has inspired […]
Read moreNew! The Alexandra Palace virtual Big Schools project is now live. From 1-10 July there’ll be Ally Pally is “bringing together industry experts with a wealth of experience and knowledge of sustainability practices working in the Film, Media and Gaming Sector” for kids from years 5-7. I was chuffed to be asked to draw illustrations […]
Read moreNew! Due to the coronavirus situation, the Alexandra Palace Children’s book awards event was cancelled – bah – but lots of resources are now online including BEES colouring in and Artists’ Challenge – how to design a book cover. The main page is here with lots of rather good challenges from the nominated authors too. […]
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