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Illustrating the Surreal

22–23 October 2016
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​Cover illustration for The Stinging Fly magazine. Copyright Lizzy Stewart. Courtesy of the artist.

​Cover illustration for The Stinging Fly magazine. Copyright Lizzy Stewart. Courtesy of the artist.

​Explore the process of making images to accompany text

Throughout his artistic career, Wifredo Lam was closely associated with some of the most important twentieth-century writers and poets, including André Breton, Aimé Césaire, René Char and Gabriel García Márquez. His first experiments with engraving in the 1940s paved the way for a proliferation of graphics in the latter decades of his life. Lam filled small sketchbooks with inventive ink drawings, illustrated texts and made prints for poems.

Led by illustrator and author Lizzy Stewart, this two-day practical workshop is an opportunity to explore a number of the techniques of illustration, such as printmaking, mark-making and collage as well as drawing. Participants will be invited to create their own illustrative work in response to a poetic text or piece of writing.

This course is for anyone interested in developing an imaginative relationship between word and image. Ticket price includes entry to The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam. Materials are provided.

About the illustrator

Lizzy Stewart is an illustrator, author and lecturer based in South-East London. She studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art and communication design at Central St Martins and now divides her time between her freelance work and lecturing at Goldsmith’s College. She focuses her creative practice on storytelling through image-making producing work that ranges from comic-books through to narrative-based exhibitions. Her clients include Faber, the New York Times and the Guardian and her first picture book There’s a Tiger in the Garden was published in 2016. 

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