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What Are You Like?
Quentin's answer to the question What Are You Like?...
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Il Mondo di Quentin Blake 11 March - 6 June 2010 La Casina di Raffaello , Rome Quentin's first exhibition in Italy now travels to Rome where it will show work from throughout his career including some new pieces, some illustrations for books by Italian authors such as Bianca Pitzorno, and works he describes as 'off the page', created for hospitals, building wraps and other settings.
Poster design for 'Il Mondo di Quentin Blake'
A work created especially for 'Il Mondo di Quentin Blake'
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DRAW Royal College of Art Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU 26-30 April 2010 Works by current and past RCA staff, including Quentin, are included in this exhibition which celebrates crossovers between design, moving image, illustration and fine art. Drawing is instinctive; children reach for anything that will make a mark, and make it. Yet as we grow up we seem to lose that instinct. DRAW is an exhibition of what mark-making used to mean for all of us: turning thoughts into lines.
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All Aboard, Away we Go!
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Il Mondo di Quentin Blake 3 July 2009 - 28 February 2010 Museo Luzzati
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The Illustrators 2009 - The British Art of Illustration 1870-2009 Chris Beetles Gallery 8 & 10 Ryder Street, London SW1Y 6QB until 9 January 2010 Quentin Blake's drawings regularly feature in this annual exhibition which highlights the work of British illustrators from Walter Crane, to Thelwell, Giles and many more.
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Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts
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In the Picture Foundling Museum Brunswick Square, London 30 July - 27 September 2009 There are some 770,000 disabled children in the UK who have virtually no role models in literature. “In the Picture” is a pioneering Big Lottery-funded campaign set up by national disability charity Scope to address this issue.The result was a vibrant exhibition of works by children’s book illustrators including Quentin Blake, who represented young characters with a variety of conditions to challenge preconceptions of disability. This exhibition successfully promoted the need to give disabled children more presence in mainstream story and picture books.
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Snozzcumbers and Frobscottle: the Wonderful World 2 May - 6 September 2009 A unique exploration of the fantabulous characters that Roald Dahl created and Quentin Blake brought to life. Blake illustrated eighteen of Dahl’s tales and rhymes and the exhibition showcased well known characters such as The BFG, Matilda, Willy Wonka, The Twits, Fantastic Mr Fox and Esio Trot.
Quentin was present at a special opening ceremony at the Museum of Childhood on Monday 4 May which attracted more than 1200 visitors!
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What Are You Like? Saturday 4 July 2009 - Monday 31 August 2009 Wingfield Barns, Church Road, Wingfield, Eye, Suffolk IP21 5RA From Quentin Blake to Eric Clapton, 45 famous names revealed their favourite things in this House of Illustration exhibition celebrating the art of illustration.
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Enchanted Worlds: Art of Fairy Stories and Mermaid Tales An exhibition which explores a world of magic, mystery and fairytales. Artworks from the Harris' own collection can be seen alongside work from Tate and the V&A. You can also find some of Quentin Blake's own imaginative illustrations to the Beauty and the Beast tale, from the book by Henrietta Branford.
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'Despite their fancy dress, what our friends here have is skills; skills now reduced perhaps to domestic proportions, but, honed over the years, still fluent and functioning...' |
Quentin Blake - Our Friends in the Circus South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre 1 Nightingale Place, London SW10 9NG 23 April - 30 June 2009
An exhibition of a set of pictures prior to their installation in a mental health ward for older adults at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. The inspiration for the set came from a conversation between Quentin and the exhibition curator Stephen Barnham, while they were both in a place called Circus Road. Quentin said that he found himself 'freewheeling' into a series of circus characters - jugglers, fire-eaters, tightrope walkers and clowns, but all of an older age group- which in a sense celebrates the lifelong persistence of well-practised skills. 'Despite their fancy dress' writes Quentin, 'what our friends have here is skills; skills now reduced perhaps to domestic proportions but, honed over the years, still fluent and functioning. Or maybe, who knows, some of them have just recently been taken up? One would like to think so.'
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Quentin Blake Exhibition of signed Limited Edition prints Sky Blue Gallery ,27 North View, Westbury Park Bristol BS6 7PT Saturday 13 June - Saturday 11 July 2009 For collectors in the Bristol area, this special exhibition is selling Limited Edition prints signed and numbered by Quentin.
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Quentin Blake: Off The Page 25 February – 13 March 2009 Bedales Gallery, Petersfield, Hampshire Since the year 2000, an increasing amount of Quentin Blake’s work has escaped from the pages of books. This exhibition included a generous selection of prints, samples of the drawings made for the walls of museums, hospitals and other public places. Part of an on-going series at Bedales called ‘HEAD/HAND/HEART’.
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Quentin Blake at the Institut Français Library, London Tuesday 27th January - Friday 13th February 2009 An exhibition of prints of the original drawings for a decorative scheme made for the Trousseau Children's Hospital in Paris.
One of Quentin's magical drawings for the walls of the Trousseau Children's Hospital, Paris
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Vive Nos Vieux Jours! until 18 February 2009 at the Institut Français d’Ecosse, Edinburgh This exhibition showed prints of some of the growing number of images created by Quentin for hospitals or health-care settings.
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What Are You Like? Dulwich Picture Gallery 9 September 2008 - 18 January 2009 A collaboration between The House of Illustration and Dulwich Picture Gallery. A diverse group of public figures each contributed a 'self-portrait' composed of their favourite things. The idea was taken from a Victorian game of describing yourself with images of your favourite things such as favourite animal, book, clothes, comfort, food, pastime, place, possession, music, shoes, weather and pet aversion Contributors included Quentin Blake, Andrew Marr, Brian Eno, David Adjaye, David Shrigley, Donald Urquhart, Eric Clapton, Jack Penate, Lauren Child to name a few... This exhibition will be on tour in 2009, starting at Manchester City Art Gallery in July.
Quentin's answer to the question 'what are you like'?
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Quentin Blake and Friends at Nunnington Hall Britain's Leading Illustrators 1st July – 7th September 2008 Quentin Blake is joined by three of Britain’s leading illustrators - Michael Foreman, Peter Brookes and Emma Chichester Clark for an exhibition of 120 artworks demonstrating the narrative and fantastical fun of their artistic range. Nunnington Hall is situated in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. It is an ancient manor house, dating from the 1680s and is now owned by the National Trust. The exhibition has been organised by Chris Beetles.
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'The idea for the series was practical, but I suppose it wouldn't have happened if it hadn't had behind it the belief that, though there may be times when your life seems colourless, it is still possible for it to blossom in unique and colourful ways'. |
Quentin Blake: Hand-Tinted South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre 1 Nightingale Place London SW10 9NG Until 30 June 2008. Open Monday to Friday 9.00am to 6.00pm, and other times by appointment. During the last two years, Quentin Blake has decorated the walls of several hospitals and health centres with specially commissioned drawings. The first set was made for Kershaw Ward at South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre. This new exhibition shows drawings created for the Woodland Centre, the mental health centre for older adults at Hillingdon Hospital. The aim of both the Kershaw and Hillingdon projects is to create a more healing environment in hospitals. The work has now been installed in the reception area and main corridors, which have recently been refurbished. |
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Quentin Blake at the Institut Français
Quentin Blake at Kelvingrove Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow until 13th January 2008
Quentin Blake showed a collection from his personal archive at Kelvingrove Gallery, thanks to support from KPMG Scotland.
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Frabjous Beasts on tour 2007
Frabjous Beasts was a highly successful exhibition curated by Quentin Blake at the Holburne Museum in Bath in 2006. Well-loved (and feared) monsters from contemporary children’s books including Axel Scheffler’s Gruffalo and Raymond Briggs’ Fungus met Quentin’s own creations invented especially for the exhibition. Frabjous Beasts toured the UK visiting the following galleries: 7 July to 18 August in Boston at the Haven Art Gallery, 2, South Square, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 6HU 25 August to 7 October in Kircaldy at the Kircaldy Museum and Art Gallery, War Memorial Gardens, Kircaldy, Fife, KY1 1YG 20 October to 24 November in Lymington at the St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, New Street, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9BH
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 Quentin Blake with Barber Institute Director Richard Verdi and fellow parrot artist Elizabeth Butterworth Edward Moss Photography
Quentin Blake: The Theatre of the Page |
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Blake et les Demoiselles des bords de Seine Musée du Petit Palais, Paris December 2005-February 2006 The Petit Palais in the Champs Elysées was built for the International Exhibition of 1900 and established in 1902 as the Museum of Fine Art of the City of Paris. After several years of work the building is now restored to its original state with the addition of a new lecture theatre, café, study and studios.  The Petit Palais reopens to the public on December 10th, and to help celebrate the occasion, the world-famous British illustrator and author Quentin Blake has been given carte blanche to explore its reserve collection of paintings, and wonderful print collection, and to curate an exhibition that will delight visitors of all ages. “Quentin Blake et les Demoiselles de Bord de Seine” is his choice of about fifty works from the 19th century on the theme of women; the works are hung on walls which are animated by Blake’s large-scale lively drawings (as in his 2001 exhibition “Tell Me A Picture” at the National Gallery, where as here, he collaborated with Ghislaine Kenyon). Hung in the Petit Palais’ impressive exhibition spaces, the works are arranged in groups so that the visitor meets women in close-up, at work, in the country and amongst their families. These include paintings by familiar names such as Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Maurice Denis and Jacques-Emile Blanche; pastels by Degas, Tissot and Forain; drawings by Constantin Guys; and prints by Vuillard, Steinlen and Toulouse Lautrec – as well as interesting surprises by lesser-known masters. A book with drawings by Quentin Blake which catalogues and illustrates all the works on show is published by Gallimard in collaboration with Paris-musées |
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