Inter­view with Sajan Rai

A short inter­view with my friend, illus­trat­or Sajan Rai. I first met Sajan when we were assigned adjoin­ing tables at a zine fair, and he was offer­ing to draw people as sloths for £5. This clearly being a sign that he was the right kind of person, we became friends.

Whit­stable print

Here’s an illus­tra­tion I recently did of Whit­stable seafront. A3, A4 and A5 giclée prints are avail­able here.

Slugs. Ugh.

I forgot to post this before. My friend Tukru does a free­bie Halloween themed zine every year for her zine distro. She needed some extra pages and asked me to draw a monster, so I cobbled this togeth­er and scanned it in about 45 minutes. I hate slugs. Horrible things. In my final year of uni, I lived in a house which had seemed fine when viewed in the summer, but come winter turned out to have a real damp prob­lem, and a slug prob­lem in the kitchen

Pinup Payback- Anti sexu­al harass­ment campaign

I recently made this poster for Pinup Payback, a femin­ist/anti-sexism organ­isa­tion in Medway run by a friend. I was given the theme of  “girls just want to have fun” without creeps, so here are some gooey, sticky creeps. My homet­own has a really dispro­por­tion­ate rate of sexu­al assault for the popu­la­tion, and a lot of people whose atti­tudes are stuck far, far in the past. Grow­ing up there, and also going back to visit, I have had men say the most appalling and disgust­ing things to me and my friends, far more than any other place I know. This poster (along with train­ing for staff) will be going up in the pubs and bars in town that sign up to the campaign to show custom­ers that if someone if harass­ing you, the venue prom­ises to take it seri­ously, a campaign also being run in London by Hollaback.

To find out more about the campaigns, phone app and to donate, visit the website.

(and yes, girls in this instance does include anyone who feels they fall into that category)

Kerguelen Islands

Recently I was look­ing up some­thing on a map, and my eyes were drawn to the Kerguelen Islands at the bottom. They seemed quite substan­tial, yet I’d never heard of them. It turns out they belong to France, are unin­hab­ited except for a few scient­ists, and are full of penguins and cabbages. Sail­ors used to stop off there to have a grim cabbage feast to fend off scurvy. Here is a lonely penguin in the cabbage fields. I will never have anoth­er reas­on to draw that. The picture is avail­able as a print and vari­ous other items on Soci­ety 6.

Space is Ace

Tomor­row at Power Lunches in Dalston, my friend Melanie is putting on an event with her compadres from the Art & Science MA at St Martins. There’s going to be bands, sound art, projec­tions, edible sugar glass plan­ets, and a very large amount of tinfoil. I did the artwork for the flyer. If you like it, and are coming to the event, you will be able to buy A3 posters of it (a few people asked already). I don’t know the exact prices yet, because I haven’t got them prin­ted yet, but the b&w edition will be roughly £1.50 and the colour version more.

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