Sunday Best | Private View - Tuesday 15th December

15th December - 22nd December

Campbell's of London, 33 Thurloe Place, South Knsington, London, SW7 2HQ

Throughout November and December 2009 Rachel Gannon of INK Illustration visited patients on the older adult wards at the Royal London Hospital with Vital Arts and the support of Kensington Palace's The last debutants. 1958. Season of change exhibition, recording stories told by the patients about when they felt they were best dressed. Postcards of the illustrations will be distributed to all those who participated and Rachel will be exhibition full size prints at this exhibition.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Christmas window display

We displayed the window at Tender Product collaborated with Bobby Dazzler and Jill.
We made cut of trees, cats, and doll house.

The Big Draw work shop

We ran the workshop as a part of the Big Draw festival on 31st October. We created The Silhouette Circus and asked people to participate in creating characters by drawing and then cutting them out of black paper to then be included in the silhouette circus.

Canvas Bags

Rachel had made some beautifully hand screen printed canvas bags. They are now for sale on the INK website.

INK map Notting Hill

INK exhibit paintings of Notting Hill at Umi Hotel. Private View September 10th 6-9pm.

Young Illustrators Award 2009 | Deadline 30th September 2009

The Swatch Young Illustrators Award is a unique competition awarding creativity and innovation in personal contemporary illustration and graphics. The award encourages and supports designers in their artistic practice and offers an international and worldwide recognized platform to them. Illustrative art works, art projects with graphic influences, animations and book art objects qualify for submission.

The nominees of the Swatch Young Illustrators Award will be invited to Berlin and get the opportunity to exhibit their work at Illustrative 2009 in Berlin. The winners await prizes worth 6.000 Euros as well as publications and illustration agency contracts and will also be featured in future international shows. One winner will be invited to design a Swatch Watch – a great opportunity to join the ranks of artists such as Kiki Picasso, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman and Keith Haring.

The nominees will be awarded by an international jury consisting of leading art directors, experts and editors of graphic and design magazines.

The call for the Swatch Young Illustrators Award opens in June and continues till the end of September 2009. An international jury decides in October about each of the category’s winners.

KK Outlet

Rachel's T-Shirt is now on sale at KK Outlet on Hoxton Square.

Rachel's Tshirt on Sale at Graniph

Rachel's t-shirt was award the SuperFuture award and is now on sale on the Graniph website! Get one here.

INK are featured in Varoom

INK are featured in the new edition of Varoom. This is a great magazine that takes a very broad look at Illustration. We were asked to write our manifesto. Buy Varoom from their website.

Invisible Library take down

Book Cover Workshop at the Invisible Library

Author Ferdie Lovett read snippets from his unfinished book 'Ithaca via Southampton' for Illustrators to create imaginative book covers.

Invisible Library in Le Cool

The Invisible Library is feature in Le Cool.

Reading Books That Don't exisit

Author David Barnett discusses the Invisible Library on the Guardian Book Blog.

"Last year I threw a (very well-attended, it has to be said) imaginary party round at my metaphysical pad where we discussed books that didn't exist outside other works of fiction.

Now, as is often the case with fictional things, these imaginary books have leaked into the real world, courtesy of the "illustration collective" INK..."

To read more visit this posting

INK are featured in Creative Review

We feature in the June edition of Creative Review, in the graduate special magazine 'WHAT'S NEXT?' 'Strength in Numbers' is an article exploring the benefits of forming a collective.

INK'S 'INVISIBLE LIBRARY' is REVEALED!

Here are photos from our 'INVISIBLE LIBRARY' Private View. We invited visitors to WRITE the BEGINNING or END of a story for an invisible book title ILLUSTRATED by us.

Working Progress 3

We have almost finished setting up our exhibition! We want to thank Kaye for helping us. Have a look at her beautiful drawings on her blog.

Working Progress 2

We painted the gallery space today. Two more days to go!!

INVISIBLE LIBRARY Work in Progress

Here are some examples of our work in progress for the exhibition!

Invisible Library - Invitation

Our Invites have come back from the printers and we are sending them out today. They fold out into an A2 poster. Look out for them in the post! If you haven't received one email us and we will send one out to you.

INVISIBLE LIBRARY***12 June - 12 July*****

Exhibition and Workshop
at Tenderpixel Galley from 12 June to 12 July.
Private View on 12 June from 6 - 9pm
Tenderpixel Gallery/10 Cecil Court London WC2N 4HE

The Invisible Library project will transform the gallery space into an imaginary library filled with books that have been alluded to in novels, but have never actually existed…until now.

Once selected the hidden novels will have their covers illustrated
by INK. The Invisible Library will ask best selling writers, cultural and musical figures, and gallery attendees to write the opening or closing page of a ‘hidden novel.’
Each book cover is not only the beginning of a story,
but also a personal journey and porthole into the imagination.
INK invited the literary foundation Real Fits to collaborate with workshops. Together, INK and Real Fits will host a programme combining illustration, creative writing, reportage and music.

The four-week schedule of workshops and events reaches out to a diverse age-range of individuals.

Creative Quarter Video

We took part in Creative Quarter at V&A on November 2008.
Here is the video about this event.

'Works on Paper' | Chloe Exhibits in Bath

Victoria and Albert Museum Comic Book Residency

INK are shortlisted for the Comic Artist Residency at the V&A!
We produced a zine about V&A collections.

Happy New Year!

INK Illustration wish you all a happy new year!