5/10 pages displayed from a short comic created in 2014.
05 August 2022
04 August 2022
NAE OPEN 2022
Thrilled to have three original pencil drawings from Mongrel alongside the graphic novel included in NAE Open 22 (New Art Exchange, Nottingham).
The exhibition is brilliant and so many wonderful artists. You can still catch the show until September and the award ceremony is on 12th August, 6-pm.
Photo credits
Without humans:
Credits Reece Straw, 2022
With humans:
Credit Tom Morley, 2022
12 December 2021
10 Years to Save the World in Media City
Speaking on the panel about the role of creativity and storytelling to communicate big issues like climate change and how they can help stimulate change.
Artwork on the Media City building.
10 Years to Save the World exhibition inside Media City.
17 October 2021
Beirut Comic Art Festival
I was very fortunate thanks to @if_liban to take part in Beirut Comic Art Festival. Here I am drawing this emotive dance performance by Ali Chahrour.
30 August 2019
Movement in Memory: A Comic Book Workshop - Tate Modern
In Movement in Memory: A Comic Book Workshop at Tate Modern (blavatnik building) we weaved together autobiographical and fictional narrative to explore displacement. What happens when our very own memories are interrupted by the sudden need to Emigrate?
31 May 2019
Portsmouth Comic Con 2019
Great to put my work out there whilst I'm going through the long process of illustrating, it's given me a burst of creative energy. It was also wonderful to meet so many talented creators at Portsmouth Comic Con.
25 October 2018
Lakes International Comic Arts Festival 2018
At LICAF I spoke about the graphic novel, Mongrel, which l'm currently working on in an interview with Aileen McEvoy titled Caught Inbetween Two Cultures.
22 April 2018
Inside Job - Tate Modern
I exhibited a few chapter from Mongrel in the Inside Job exhibition at Tate Modern.
23 July 2017
A Way Home
A light-hearted, short story about a women's journey immigrating from Bangladesh to England.
11 May 2017
Imagined Worlds - Kubla Khan
My drawing, Longing for Wonder, was displayed in the Imagined Worlds - Kubla Khan exhibition.
Longing
for Wonder is similar to Kubla Khan in two ways. The first is the narrative
within the drawing. A girl is confined in her room, so she sits on her bed and
peeps through the curtains. She observes. Presented with the ordinary, she
imagines what is beyond the visible. What hides behind the rows of houses and
the tiny stretch of horizon? She has yet to explore the world so her
imagination is not limited by knowledge. She imagines a better world. Inside
her mind she finds her only escape from her reality. The viewer interrupts her
vivid daydream. She turns to acknowledge them.
The second link is the context within which the drawing was
created.
Similar to the poem, Kubla
Khan, my drawing, Longing for Wonder,
originated with a real person and a real place. It was once a reality, but
now it exists only in my mind. The oversized furniture and the warped
perspective suggest that my imagination has distorted it. This is now my
creation.
09 September 2016
Sophronia Exhibition
The exhibition, Sophronia, presented the works of MA Authorial Illustration students at Falmouth university. I exhibited the graphic novel Mongrel, which I wrote on the course.
I was awarded the Atlantic Press Graphic Literature Prize, for the work I created in Mongrel.
On one side of the wall I created a collage from the inner pages in Mongrel.
I did not want the illustrations to be displayed as flat images, so created books to be used in the collage. Some books were nailed open, some had flapping pages and some were nailed shut. The closed books represented hesitancy towards sharing personal narrative.
On the other side of the wall, I presented a framed original and two versions of the book. One version contained the three chapters I had managed to finalise on the course and the other version, the manuscript, contained the whole story at different stages.
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