CV
I have worked as an illustrator for many clients in the UK and abroad and I am represented for illustration work by Heart Illustration Agency in London and New York. I originally studied Graphic Design at Middlesex University, London (BA) and later, Illustration at Central St. Martins, London (PG cert) and Fine Art at UWIC, Cardiff (MA). Inspiration for illustrative work comes from a diversity of out-of-the-way places such as folk art, outsider environments, 1930s studio photography and choice finds in bric-a-brac and secondhand bookshops. As well as working to commission, I also exhibit my own work which uses print, photography, drawing, the moving image, assemblage and various digital media.
Website of my non-commissioned work: Half Hidden
My blog: Kingdom of Rubble
Clients
Penguin, The New Yorker, V&A, Channel 4, Adobe, The Guardian, Vodaphone, WPP, Creative Review
New Scientist, Granta, EMI, Picador, The Independent, Duncan Baird Publishers, SAAB, Decca
Radio Times, Coca Cola, Carling, The British Council, Conde Nast, Simon and Schuster, BBC
The New York Times, Community Links, Nat West, Longmans, Sunday Herald, Volvo, Heinemann
Harpers, New York, Random House, London Sinfonietta, Harper Collins, New York Times.
Publications
2011 Printmaking Today, ‘First Folio’ Vol. 20 No.3, Autumn
2011 Derek Brazell and Jo Davies, ‘Making Great Illustration, A&C Black
2011 Albert Camus, ‘The Outsider’, Folio (Cover and interior illustrations)
2011 Meowmorphosis, Coleridge Cook, Quirk Books (interior illustrations)
2011 Suzanne Hinchliffe, ‘River of Life’ Design Week
2010 Gina Cross, ‘Images 34' (Editorial essay), AOI Publications
2009 Mark Wigan, ‘Illustration in Global Contexts’, AVA Academia Publications
2009 Design Showcase, Computer Arts Magazine (November)
2009 Adrian Plant, (Catalogue essay), National Eisteddfod of Wales, Bala,
2009 3x3 Contemporary Illustration (USA)
2006 Mark Wigan, ‘Thinking Visually’, Watson-Guptill Publications
2005 Emily Mitchell, (Interview), The AOI Journal
2002 Susan Aldworth, ‘Creative Response’ (Interview), The AOI Journal
2000 Gillian Rhys, ‘We Are Not Worthy’, Eve Magazine
2000 Robert Mason, ‘A Digital Dolly’, Norwich School of Art and Design
Awards
2011 House of Illustration / Folio Society winner for ‘The Outsider' by Albert Camus
2010 V&A Illustration Awards Editorial Award for 'Phantom Space Storms' published in New Scientist
2007 Association Of Illustrators Unpublished (Silver) for ‘Sexing the Cherry’ by Jeanette Winterson
2006 Association Of Illustrators Publishing (Gold) for ‘In Evil Hour’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2006 Accountancy Age Awards: Best Annual Report of the Year for WPP
2005 Association Of Illustrators Publishing (Bronze) for ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Exhibitions
2011 ‘Imagined Machines’ TestBed, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys
2011 ‘Images 35’, London and UK Tour
2011 Serco Illustration Awards, London Transport Museum, London
2010 'V&A Illustration Awards' Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2010 ‘Images 34’, London and UK Tour
2009 National Eisteddfod of Wales, Bala
2009 ‘The Illustrators Eye’, Lethaby Gallery, London
2009 ‘Images 33’, London and UK Tour
2008 ‘The Graphic Art of Comment’, The Guardian, London
2008 ‘Images 32’, London and UK Tour
2008 'Conduits, Schemes + Spheres', George Rodger Gallery, UCA, Maidstone, Kent
2008 ‘If You Build It, They Will Come’, g39, Cardiff
2008 ‘The Rise and Progress of Superstition’, Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery, Powys
2007 ‘Images 31’, London and UK Tour
2007 'Ill-us-ra-shun', Stockport Museum & Art Gallery, Stockport
2006 ‘Surface’, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys
2006 ‘Images 30’, London and UK Tour
2005 ‘Begining, Middle & End’, g39, Cardiff
2005 National Eisteddfod of Wales, Bangor
2005 ‘Images 29’, London and UK Tour
2004 ‘Perfectly Normal’, tactileBOSCH, Cardiff
2004 Ida Branson Bequest Exhibition, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
2004 ‘Images 28’, London and UK Tour
2003 Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
2003 Oriel Canfas Gallery, Cardiff
2003 Art 2003, Catto Contemporay Art, London
2003 ‘Images 27’, London and UK Tour
2002 ‘Everyday Things That Don’t Exist’, Phoenix Arts, Brighton
2002 Harlech Biennale, Oriel Cemlyn, Harlech
2002 National Eisteddfod of Wales, St. Davids
2002 ‘Contemporary Welsh Art’, Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art, Hampshire
2002 ‘Compute+’, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire
2001 ‘Images 25’, London and UK Tour
2001 'Matthew Richardson: Prints and Works on Paper’, Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery, Powys
2001 National Eisteddfod of Wales, Denbigh, Wales
2001 ‘Showcase Wales’, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth
2001 National Print Festival, Brewery Arts, Kendal
2001 London International Print Biennale, Morley Gallery, London
Lecturing & Conferences
The Arts University College, Bournemouth (Visiting Lecturer, BA hons Illustration) 2010
Manchester Metropolitan University (Visiting Lecturer, BA hons Illustration & Animation) 2010
University College Falmouth 'The Untamed Tiger' Open Forum: Guest Speaker 2010
Central St Martins School of Art, London (Visiting Lecturer, MA Illustration) 2009 - 2010
Stockport College of Art & Design (Part-time Lecturer, BA hons Illustration) 2007- 2009
Coventry University (Visiting Lecturer, BA hons Fine Art & Illustration) 2009
University for the Creative Arts, Maidstone (Visiting Lecturer, BA hons Illustration) 2008-10
Camberwell College of Art, London (Visiting Lecturer, MA Illustration) 2008-2011
Hereford College of Arts (Part-time Lecturer, BA hons Illustration) 2004 - 2006
Stockport College of Art & Design (Visiting Lecturer, BA hons Illustration) 2006
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (Visiting Lecturer, BA hons Printmaking) 2004
Coleg Powys, Newtown ((Visiting Lecturer, Foundation) 2002
Hereford College of Arts (Visiting Lecturer, BA hons Illustration) 1998
Norwich School of Art & Design (Visiting Lecturer, BA hons Illustration) 1995 - 2010
Middlesex University, London (Visiting Lecturer, MA Graphic Design) 1992
De Montfort University, Leicester (Part-time Lecturer, BA hons Illustration) 1988-1990
Collections
MAG Collection, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth, Wales
Brecon Museum & Art Gallery, Powys
