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Ian Morris

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

Ian Morris is a passionate Illustrator with an authentic voice and is a Lecturer at Manchester School Of Art on the Illustration with Animation course. Ian’s debut picture book ‘The Library Book’ was longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize 2022, nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Illustration Medal 2023 and also endorsed ‘Glorious’ by Chris Riddell. Ian is currently illustrating several new books and developing his own creative writing endeavours.

Clients:

Thames & Hudson, Quarto, Firefly Press, Otter-Barry Books, Stories of Care, Bloomsbury, BBC History Magazine, Prospect Magazine, The National Literacy Trust, Manchester Libraries & Manchester Science Festival.

Achievements & Acknowledgements:

UK – Nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Illustration Medal 2023 for my debut picture book ‘The Library Book’.

UK – Longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize 2022 for my debut picture book

‘The Library Book’ The Klaus Flugge Prize is a prestigious award celebrating newcomers to picture book illustration.

UK – Shortlisted for the Portsmouth Library Award 2023 for my debut picture book ‘The Library Book’.

UK – Longlisted for the UK SLA Information Book Awards 2023 for ‘Every Word Tells A Story’

UK – Winner of the Children’s Literature Book Festival Awards 2023 in the Illustrated Younger Reader for ‘Alfie’s First Fight’

UK – Acknowledged by the Association of Illustrators in their Top 10 Upcoming Image Makers 2017.

American – Gold IPPY Award for Children’s Picture Books (7 & Under) for my debut picture book ‘The Library Book’.

Website: https://www.ianmorrisillustration.com

Email: ian@ianmorrisillustration.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ianmorris_22

Georgia Noble

Thursday, June 1st, 2017

Georgia Noble is an internationally selling Fine Artist living and working in Manchester. She attended The Manchester School of Art and graduated in 2015, specialising in oil painting.

Since graduating, she has shown work in The Curwen Gallery’s ‘Northern Graduates’ exhibition in London and was selected by Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator and VP, Art Advisory at Saatchi Art to appear in their 2016 ‘Invest In Art’ initiative.

In Georgia’s practice she aims to transcend the conventions of traditional landscape painting in order to present the viewer with a sense of space that, through both expressive mark making and the thin layering of oil paint, goes beyond the physical and real to evoke a sense of somewhere ‘other’.

Often through the omission of a clear structure and horizon line, she uses both suggestive and bold marks, combined with a varied palette to allude to the natural environment in attempt to capture and represent the energies and forms it possesses. Familiarities found within the paintings provide the viewer with a sense of stability and recognition with the world they are accustomed to, while the more abstract formations deliver a sense of escapism.

It is her aim that the work provokes questions of the metaphysical and hints at the sublime, challenging preconceptions of our existence within nature and addressing our inferiority and mortality in relation to it.

The paintings themselves are made in response to her own experiences and relationship with the natural environment and, painting impulsively, she lets this be the source that she works from and builds her compositions through methods of abstraction to create a final image that is free from formal structure and is open to interpretation.

www.georgianoble.com

www.saatchiart.com/georgianoble

g.a.noble@hotmail.com

Instagram: ____gee

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