Engraving by Twoone

At the Gorker Gallery: 25 february - 14 March, 2010
Twoone is an artist who’s work commands a certain kind of intrigue from it’s audience. His craftsmanship, patience and instantly recognizable decorative style resonates a flowing narrative, portraying a world of spiritual tranquility that you can’t help but wish to be a part [...]

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Speakers include: Mark Williams, lawyer, Contracts and copyright; Paul Bootes, Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) CAL, the difference between CAL and Plr/Elr and what the Google Settlement means for illustrators; Industry panel discussion Experienced illustrators talk about the issues of pricing.
Seminar date: Saturday 27th March, 2010, Registration 9.30am sharp, Seminar runs 10am – 4.30pm
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Illusive - Contemporary Illustration Part 3
The third edition of Illusive brings together a comprehensive selection of international contemporary illustration, plus interviews with the designers/artists. The collection displays artistic and commercial pieces by artists and designers such as: Pietari Posti, Andrew Banneker, Keemo, Petra Börner, Nathan Fox, Bovey Lee, Jeff Nishinaka, Sarah Illenberger, Margot Macé, Laura [...]

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Michael Steele, at Gorker Gallery
Phone Home, Michael Steele
Gorker Gallery is proud to present ‘Accumulating’ by Michael Steele, Michael’s work has been making serious waves in the USA leading up to the end of last year with features on Juxtapoze.com and NotCot.org, his work in the HE-MAN show at gallery 1988 in LA flew off the [...]

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Stefan Glerum
Rednose Distrikt, Stefan Glerum

Growing up as a healthy young Dutch boy, Stefan Glerum (Amsterdam, 1983) developed an interest in old paper, second hand records and extremely large trousers. To give shape to these fascinations Glerum started to work as an assistent to Dutch master of the clear line Joost Swarte. Glerum studied illustration at [...]

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Lisa Congdon
Day 1, A Collection A Day 2010, Lisa Congdon, www.collectionaday2010.blogspot.com, www.lisacongdon.com
San Francisco illustrator and fine artist Lisa Congdon was born and raised in both upstate New York and Northern California where she grew to love the trees and animals that surrounded her. That love is now expressed most intensely through her paintings and drawings. [...]

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Jonny Wan
2010 Tiger
“As 2010 will be the year of the tiger in the Chinese zodiac so I thought I’d give my own rendition on the theme. I have not used traditional colour because I love to experiment and being in the creative field, its my duty to stray from the norm. This was also an [...]

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HALFTONE HEROES
Featuring the art of Matthew Dunn & William Henry Fletcher

The Cosmic Commander VS The Midnight Menace, Matthew Dunn

Halftone Heroes is an exhibition featuring, and paying tribute to, the long lost work of wartime artist William Henry Fletcher (WHF).  With the majority of his original art destroyed shortly after his death, and any publications featuring [...]

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Dan Stafford

TokyOH! (2009) - Personal Work - Discusses Japan’s clashing influences in it’s contemporary Fashion tastes.
Described by Design You Trust as a “A True eyes breaker, Illustrator and Designer Dan Stafford stands out from the world of contemporary illustration”, 23 year old Dan explores visual communication in a post-modern context. His strong and confident [...]

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Jon Macnair

Consulting the Wise One - India ink on paper - 2009
Jon MacNair was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in the suburbs of southeastern Michigan. From a very early age, he loved to draw and decided to attend The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore where he earned a BFA in [...]

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Winona Nelson

Battle Elf, 10″ x 11.5″, Digital, Winona Nelson 2009
Winona Nelson is a freelance illustrator living in Philadelphia.  She previously worked in the video game industry as a concept artist after attending the Conceptart.org Atelier in San Francisco where she studied under Carl Dobsky, Coro Kaufman, James Kei, Shawn Barber, Jason Chan and others.  More [...]

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Jonathan Wong
Orlaith, illustration made for the Depthcore collective (www.depthcore.com)
Jonathan Wong is a third year student studying graphic design in the Limerick School of Art & Design in Ireland. Aside from college work, he also delves into freelance opportunities, doing work for such clients as Mazda and Hewlett Packard.

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Devin McGrath
Crow, 10″ x 11″, Ink, Graphite, Digital, Devin McGrath
Devin is a graduate of Parsons the New School For Design Illustration Program.  He currently resides in New York City working as a freelance Illustrator.  Some of his influences include Vania Zouravliov, Tomer Hanuka, Yuko Shimuzu, and Sam Weber.
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ACMI - Tim Burton: The art and imagination of the most fantastical filmmaker of our time

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005), Directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson, Shown: Co-director Tim Burton on the set, Photo credit: Derek Frey
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) joins Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2010 with an Australian exclusive exhibition [...]

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