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Profile
- freelance illustration since 1991 - see past commissions
- clients mainly in Editorial but also Design, Advertising, Book-publishing.
- image-making derived from montage and screen-printing, digitalised since 1997
- choice of roughs before artwork
- time needed for illustration anything between 3 hours and several weeks
- fees: illustrator's fees are made up of two components: 1. the effort in physically making the illustration (Make fee), and 2. the license to use the illustration for a specific purpose (Licence fee). See guidelines set out by the Association of Illustrators (www.theaoi.com)
Brief history (for detailed CV please contact)
born in Germany, 1966
Hochschule der Kuenste, Berlin, Germany, 1985-86, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftskommunikation
Freie Kunstschule Stuttgart, Germany, 1987-88, Freie Kunstschule Stuttgart, Foundation in Art and Design
Bristol Polytechnic, UK, 1988-91, Graphic Design BA
Kingston University, London, UK, 1994-96, Illustration / Screenprinting MA
freelance work for magazines and newspapers since 1991
Publications
Contact Illustrators, Elfande, Volumes: 10 (1994), 11 (1995), 15 (1999), 16 (2000), 17 (2001), 18 (2002), 19 (2003), 20 (2004), 21 (2005), 22 (2006), 23 (2007)
Images 27 (2003), 28 (2004), 29 (2006), 30 (2007)
LeBook, French and American edition 2004
Hand to Eye, Contemporary Illustration, Angus Hyland and Roanne Bell, Laurence King Publishing, 2003
Artist's Book Yearbook, 2003-2005, Impact Press, University of West of England, 2003
Exhibitions
Beint and Beint Illustration Agency, London, 1991, BA Degree show
Gabriele Skelton Career Consultants, London, 1995, Solo exhibition of illustrations
Coningsby Gallery, London, MA final show, 1996
Graphicus touring exhibition of illustrations to Aesop’s Fables, curated
by Leo DeFreitas, 1997, contribution of three screen-prints
Solo exhibition of graphic work at Net Cafe, Bristol, 1997
Exhibition by Bristol illustrators at the Happening Gallery, Bristol, 1997
Spike Island Printmakers, Bristol, 1999, display of artists’ book ‘Cyclops
1’
West of England Academy, Bristol, 1999, display of artists’ book ‘Cyclops
1’
Spike Island Open Weekend, Bristol, 2003, display of prints and artists’
books in studio
Magma Books, London, 2003, contemporary illustration
West of England Academy, Bristol, 2003, display of illustrations to Ovid's Metamorphosis
as part of printmakers exhibition
'Regular Columns', Conningsby Gallery, London, group show with regular illustrations
in newspapers
'Ill-us-tra-shun, The Art of Contemporary Illustration', Stockport Art Gallery,
Group Show, 2005
N.O.G., Brick Lane, London, display and sale of prints to Ovid's Metamorphosis, 2006
Teaching
Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone, talks, tutorials and workshops
for BA-illustration since 2002
Kingston University, 1st-year illustration, illustration workshop on health
and medicine, 2003
London College of Printing, talk on artsis’books and illustration to 2nd
and 3rd year BA Students, 2003
Middlesex University, Artists’ book and illustration workshops for 3rd
BA-illustration, 2005
London College of Printing, presentation of Artist's books to 3rd year illustration students
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