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ClearVision Project wins Quentin Blake Award 2007 The ClearVision Project, a national postal lending library of children's books adapted so that they can be shared by touch readers and print readers, was chosen to receive the prestigious Quentin Blake Award 2007.
Hogarth meets Blake Hogarth Brown is a recent arts college graduate who has been inspired by Quentin Blake for most of his life. In the video linked below The Guardian has profiled this young artist. The film includes a meeting between Quentin and Hogarth, and Hogarth’s reflection on how meeting his hero has changed his perspective on his own work
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Quentin Blake turns 75! December 2007 saw Quentin Blake reach the magnificent age of 75. He celebrated the day in his usual modest and hardworking style with a book signing appearance at 'The Illustrators' exhibition at the Chris Beetles Art Gallery in London. He didn't get away without being presented with a special 'Clown' birthday cake though.
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Quentin Blake wraps at St Pancras Passengers leaving the new St Pancras International station (opened by the Queen on 6 November) are now greeted by an extraordinary 16m high building wrap. It's covered with a madcap human and birdlife welcome committee who cook, paint, drink, garden and swing their way round the building and a streetside hoarding. Commissioned by Argent , London and Continental Railways and DHL–Exit Supply Chain, the developers of the new Kings Cross, it's the first of several public art installations intended for the scheme.
The wrap covers the Victorian Grade II listed Stanley Building, which will be refurbished for new uses in due course, but, until then Londoners and visitors can enjoy the largest-scale Quentin Blakes ever, for free.
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More honours for Quentin Blake Quentin Blake has collected over 12 honorary degrees which recognise his outstanding contribution to the worlds of illustration, children’s literature and now also exhibition curating. 2006/7 has brought him another clutch including Honorary Doctorates from the Institute of Education, the University of Loughborough, the Open University and Anglia Ruskin University. And in December 2007 France paid a special tribute to Quentin by creating him Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Quentin Blake President of Downing College Cambridge Alumni Association Quentin Blake read English at Downing College 1953-56 (The redoubtable F R Leavis was one of his tutors). In 2000 he was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the college and in September 2007 began a year as President of the Downing College Association, the college alumni society. The Association has produced a print (originally drawn as a cover for the Downing Association Newsletter) in a limited edition available to the members and alumni of the college at £75 each. |
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Quentin Blake works for hospitals and other healthcare settings Quentin's work is increasingly seen beyond the pages of books. He
continually applies his imagination and extraordinary skill to
new challenges, as his work for NHS trusts demonstrates. After
his highly successful commissions for the Kershaw Ward at the
South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre, his work can
now also be seen at six further centres, including Bentley
House in Harrow, a day service for older people in Harrow
with mental health problems. At St Charles' Hospital in
London W10, Quentin's drawings decorate the Redwood Ward in the Chamberlain
and Nightingale Buldings which provides therapeutic treatment,
rehabilitation and respite care to people over 65 years of age.
The Alexandra
Avenue Health and Social Care Centre in South Harrow caters for young
people and Quentin's enormous ‘Planet Zog' drawings now animate waiting areas and other public spaces. Quentin Blake is also patron of the Nightingale Project which brings life and colour into the South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre through music and the visual arts. Nightingale Project
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