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Quentin Blake Day at Chris Beetles Gallery, Sunday 13 December 2009 Chris Beetles Gallery 8 & 10 Ryder Street, London SW1Y 6QB Quentin Blake made a special appearance at this pre-Christmas celebration which featured 91 of his wonderful drawings.
Illustration from Quentin's latest book, Angelica Sprocket's Pockets, to be published in Spring 2010
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Friday 13 November 2009 at 6pm National Theatre, London SE1 Quentin Blake and David Walliams Little Britain's David Walliams was joined by his illustrator to talk about his newchildren's book, Mr Stink, a hilarious tale of family secrets....and a tramp in a shed. Followed by a book signing
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Book signing at Harrods' branch of Waterstone's Saturday 14 November 2009 12.00 - 1.30 Quentin also signed books at Harrods along with other well-known children's authors and illustrators.
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Saturday 3 October 2009 at 10.30 National Theatre, London Roald Dahl Day To celebrate the fourth annual Roald Dahl Day, his principal illustrator Quentin Blake drew live on stage, in the company of actors who read from Dahl's ever-popular books.
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Quentin Blake at The Prince's Drawing School Wednesday 6 May 2009 18.30-20.30 Quentin was the very special guest-of-honour at the annual exhibition of The Prince's Drawing School's Young Artists Programme.
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Quentin Blake at the Fantastic Frobscottle Weekend Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green
Along with over 1200 other visitors, Quentin attended this gloriumptious Bank Holiday weekend of Snozzcumbers and Frobscottle mayhem and signed more books than he could count! The exhibition continues until September 2009.
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Ten Years of the Children’s Laureate A Platform event at the National Theatre, London Monday 27 April 2009 18.00-18.45 Quentin Blake joined Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Michael Rosen and Jacqueline Wilson to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the Children’s Laureate. They reflected on the fun and challenges of being Laureate and discussed the current trend of dramatic adaptations of children’s novels. Chaired by John Mullan.
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Quentin Blake in Connecting Conversations at the Anna Freud Centre Sunday 8 February 2009, 18.30-20.00 Connecting Conversations is a series of events bringing together practitioners from the world of psychoanalysis with leading practitioners from other fields. Quentin was in conversation with psychotherapist Avi Schmueli and you can listen in on them at Connecting Conversations
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Quentin Blake at the Institut Français, Friday 6 February 2009, 18.00 As part of the Institut Français' annual Festival de la Jeunesse and also its 'Cross-Channel' series, Quentin spoke about his love-love relationship with France and described some of the many projects he has worked on in that country, including the decorative scheme he recently created for the Trousseau Children's Hospital in Paris. There was also an exhibition of prints of the original drawings for this scheme in the Library of the Institut Français.
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Quentin Blake and David Walliams at Selfridges, Thursday 4 December 2008 16.30-17.30 Quentin and Little Britain star David Walliams appeared at the Foyles Book Shop, Lower Ground Floor in the Oxford Street branch of Selfridges to sign books.
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Quentin Blake at Dulwich Picture Gallery, 20 November 2008 Quentin spoke about the current exhibition What are you like? which features a new work by him.
The exhibition was put together in conjunction with the House of Illustration, a new museum project dedicated to the art of illustration. |
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Quentin Blake at the Oxford Union Tuesday 28 October 2008 saw the Oxford Union's library packed to bursting point by students desperate to hear Quentin's talk 'The Road to St Pancras'. In the talk he described the recent projects in which his drawings have escaped from the pages books and appeared large on hospital walls, building wraps and many other places.
Photo courtesy Eddie Gallagher
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Quentin Blake and his three fellow-Children’s Laureates unveil Holograms at Unicorn Theatre Four holographic portraits of the last four Children’s Laureates were unveiled at the Unicorn Theatre in London at 12.30pm on Tuesday 5th June 2007. All four Children’s Laureates came together for the first time ever to see their portraits.
Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson have all posed for the Unicorn Theatre’s photographic Artist-in-Residence, Lisa Barnard. Lisa collaborated on this project with holographer Rob Munday who has previously created a holographic portrait of The Queen.
These three-dimensional head shots show the four authors reading from the books they most enjoyed writing. The holograms are permanently exhibited at the Unicorn Theatre portraits, emphasising the essential connection between the visual and performing arts and literature.
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Quentin Blake at The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye Saturday 2 June 2007 at 2.30, Barclays Wealth Pavilion |
New building in Quentin’s old school named after him Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School was Quentin’s secondary school (he was taught English there by a man called JH Walsh who he says really inspired him). It’s now recognising its famous ex-student by naming its new art block after him. Quentin was there on 29 March 2007 to declare the building open. |
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Quentin Blake, parrots and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts until 29 April 2007 Quentin Blake is well known as a parrot fan and supporter.
He recently opened a new exhibition The Parrot in Art:From Dürer
to Elizabeth Butterworth at the Barber Institute of Fine
Arts in Birmingham. The exhibition explored the parrot’s role
in art and featured loans from collections such as the National Gallery,
Tate Britain, the Royal Collection and a work by Quentin himself Cockatoos
at Christmas. Quentin Blake with Barber Institute Director, Richard Verdi and fellow parrot artist Elizabeth Butterworth Edward Moss Photography |
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