Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
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The UK’s centre for illustration, working on restoring a former 18th and 19th century waterworks to reopen it as the national centre for illustration.
London, UK
Joined May 2010
#MakeYourMark and help restore New River Head, an extraordinary 18th and 19th century waterworks, and reopen it as a new national centre for #illustration. Donate today ❤️ ✏️ Impression of the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration © Nora Walter
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Thank you for celebrating #NationalIllustrationDay2024 with us. We’ve so enjoyed seeing all the illustrations you’ve shared – from the work that you’ve made, to the pieces in your collections, to the creative activities you’ve done to celebrate, to your favourite picture books, cartoons, maps, technical drawings, envelopes, objects and more! We are the UK’s only charity for illustration – the art we experience in our everyday lives. We can’t wait to welcome you to the national centre for illustration when we open in 2026, jam-pack with stories and ideas. 🎉✏️❤️🖌️✨🎈🍰 📷 © Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
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RT @WaterstonesKids: For #NationalIllustrationDay2024, we're reading some of our favourite picture books! From cosy, nostalgic pages and…
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RT @Marthakearney: What’s your favourite political cartoon? For #NationalIllustrationDay @QBCentre we have been asking people to pick. Her…
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RT @ArchSouthEast: Happy #NationalIllustrationDay2024! 🎨 There are lots of nuts and bolts to archaeology 🔩 Excavation, artefact analysis, a…
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🎉 It’s #NationalIllustrationDay2024! 🎉 Help us to fill social media with a celebration of illustration. You could post: ✨ A beloved picture book, graphic novel or post ✨ A diagram or instruction manual that you use at work ✨ An illustration you’ve created yourself Don’t forget to tag #NationalIllustrationDay2024 and @qbcentre – we’ll be sharing posts throughout the day. Have a great time celebrating! © Quentin Blake, 2023
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It's #NationalIllustrationDay2024 tomorrow!🎉 To celebrate our friends at @theaoi have asked eight illustrators why illustration matters to them and how they'll be spending the day. Read the article below.
🎉 #NationalIllustrationDay is coming up this Friday this 29 November! Celebrating alongside @qbcentre we give a glimpse into the life of 8 AOI Members, their works, how they'll spend #NID2024 and much more. Read the full feature:
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The books are: Dockwood by Jon McNaught © Nobrow Press, 2012; Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs © Jonathan Cape, 1998; This Land of Kings 1066-1399 by Ida Foulis, illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone © Ward Lock and Co. 1954; and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, illustrated by Paul Birkbeck © Viking Children’s Books, 1999
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Is it your favourite recipe book or something in your fridge? Instructions for building that bookcase or construction toy? Share your finds with us by tagging @qbcentre and using the hashtags #nationalillustrationday2024 and #illustrationeveryday
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Illustration is the art we see every day: road signs, adverts, instructions, safety signs, cartoons and comics in your daily newspaper and more. Keep your eyes open today and see what #illustration you can spot on your daily travels. 📷 Photos by our colleague Kirsty walking around Clerkenwell © Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
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🎉 Yesterday work began to transform the derelict New River Head heritage site in Islington into the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration! We can't wait to welcome you through our gates in early 2026 to a national centre for illustration jam-packed with stories and ideas. 🤞 Made possible with @HeritageFundUK, with thanks to National Lottery Players. 📷 Photos © Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
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Just two hours left of our fundraising auction! Getting bidding now and you'll be lucky enough to give Quentin Blake's Four Legged & Feathered Friends a new home. Every artwork sold will support Quentin's vision for a dedicated centre for illustration. Bid online now: ✏️ Our Friends in the Country No. 5 © Quentin Blake 2023
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There are only 24 hours left to bid on our fundraising auction! Have you had a chance to get to know Quentin Blake's Feathered and Four Legged Friends yet? Make a bid online now at Bonhams: Women and Strange Creatures No. 132 © Quentin Blake 2007
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"Quentin Blake’s birds and animals display as much character as their human companions. I particularly love his playful and inquisitive mice, and the way that his birds exhibit eccentricities and emotions just like people." - Katie McCurrach, our Exhibitions Curator. We've been learning more about how Quentin Blake created his collection Feathered and Four Legged Friends from one of our curators, Katie. Visit the auction here: Learn more about Quentin's practice from Katie in our Journal here: Feathered and Four Legged Friends No. 11 © Quentin Blake 2024
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📢#QuentinBlake has created a collection of Feathered and Four-Legged Friends for a special fundraising auction at Bonhams for #QuentinBlakeCentreForIllustration Bid now online until 12pm 9 October: Wading in the Shallows © Quentin Blake 2023
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