SHAUN TAN FIRST UK EXHIBITION

Shaun Tan is one of the most exciting illustrator /animation film makers in the world today The first six months of 2011 has seen him win an Academy Award (Oscar) for best short animated film, the Australian Dromkeen Medal and Astrid Linden Award (popularly known as the Nobel Prize for Literature).

To celebrate, Illustration cupboard is delighted to host Shaun Tan in the first major exhibition of his work in Britain. In an exciting multi-media event, working drawings, studies and finished artwork have been chosen by Shaun from his own collection for display. A selection of these will be available for purchase providing the collector a rare collecting opportunity.



Illustration Cupboard
9th August - 10th September

LINK HERE

22 Bury St, London,
St. James's
London
W1Y 6AL
Tel: +44 (0)207 976 1727

MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES

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Graphic designer and Illustrator Milton Glaser explains why drawing is
so important to his practice.

The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World

Illustration: William Roberts

If you are in London over the summer break I recommend the following show
at Tate Britain, the SHU library also has some fantastic printed examples of
Vorticist works in it's archive.

Tate Britain 14 June  –  4 September 2011

Vorticism was a radical art movement that shone briefly but brightly in the years before and during World War I. This exhibition celebrates the full electrifying force and vitality of this short-lived but pivotal modernist movement that was based in London but international in make-up and ambition.

The Vorticists forged a distinctive style combining machine-age forms and energetic imagery, embracing modernity and blasting away the staid legacy of the Edwardian past.

Focusing on the only two Vorticist exhibitions mounted during the lifetime, in London and New York, this striking exhibition brings together over 100 key works; including photography and literary ephemera, as well as seminal pieces by Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

This exhibition aims to shine a new light on this revolutionary group of artists, presenting the style, radical aesthetics and thoughts of one of the most truly avant-garde art movements in British history.