Anna Bhushan is an enchanting illustrator and serious thinker. Her delicate works tackles themes in a way that really inspires and help understanding. She manifests a space in illustration for herself as a real individual with a unique stance and voice, From Anglo Indian origins Anna works both in London and New York as both [...]
Sophie Herxheimer straddles the illustration world with real life. Magnificent and colourful Sophie’s world is mythical and magical, whilst also being raw and gritty. Sophie has a strong stance on where illustration should go, and confronts the word with disdain as it begins with ‘ill’, she is bold, imaginative and not scared of challenges her [...]
Roderick Mills is one of those illustrators whose name always resonates, and whose work flows abundantly. For this symposium Roderick is going to focus on his latest film piece, not illustration. Exploring Sleeping Beauty his latest film fits beautifully with the ‘kissing awake’ part of the symposium. Roderick is so prolific it is a wonder [...]
Graham Rawle is an extremely ambitious and exciting writer, illustrator and imaginer, his latest award winning book a fantastic version of L Frank Baum’s original story ‘the Wizard of Oz’ is unabridged, fabulous and terrifying, in beautiful Technicolor a filmic quality captures the ‘wonderful wonderful’ land of Oz in a newly enchanting bewitching way. It [...]
Dr Alex Seago and Dr Robert Wallis are colleagues at Richmond University. Their work together for this symposium will explore the themes of Redolence and Enchantment in popular music, a strand of thought which collides beautifully with the illustrated world, that which sits among us doing good or bad but influencing us all the same. [...]
