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Quentin Blake at Chris Beetles Gallery! 8 & 10 Ryder Street, London SW1Y 6QB Sunday 12 December 2010, 10-12 and 2-4 To coincide with the exhibition of his works Frabjous Beasts and Frumious Birds Quentin signed books for four hours!
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Quentin Blake in a drawing duel at the Festival de Jeunesse! Wednesday 17 November, 6.30 Institut Francais, 17 Queeensberry Place, London SW7 2DT Quentin and famous French author and illustrator Francois Place joined in hand to pen combat on the stage of the Institut.
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Quentin Blake at John Lewis, Oxford Street Thursday 28th October 2010 at 5.30 Quentin made a special appearance and caused havoc on the Ground Floor where hundreds of people queued for hours to have their books and cards signed!
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Foyles Literary Evening- Quentin Blake & Donald Sturrock Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG Monday 11 October 2010, 19.00 An evening of conversation between Quentin Blake and Donald Sturrock, author of the new Dahl biography, about Roald Dahl and the collaboration with his legendary illustrator.
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Daniel Pennac in conversation with Quentin Blake Free Word Centre 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA Friday 24 October 2010, 18.30 Renowned French author and ex-teacher Daniel Pennac celebrated the publication of the English translation of his latest book, School Blues, in a conversation with its illustrator Quentin Blake. Presented by English PEN.
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Quentin Blake drew at the Guardian Hay Festival!
On 29th May as part of the Hay Fever Festival for children Quentin appeared before an audience of 1400, and he spoke, drew pictures and signed many books....
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Quentin Blake lectures at an academic conference at the University of Cambridge 30 April 2010 Quentin gave a keynote address at the University of Cambridge Graduate Student Conference in the History of Art 2010 which is titled Laughing at Art: The Study of Humour in the Visual Arts. Quentin spoke to an enthusiastic audience about his approach to humour and how it informs his work, in particular his recent sequences of pictures for hospitals.
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Quentin Blake opens annual Oberon Book Awards exhibition at the Royal College of Art 27 April 2010 This is an annual competition for RCA students to illustrate and design a selection of covers for book titles, which this year included Gulliver’s Travels, The God of Small Things and The Velveteen Rabbit. The exhibition includes the shortlisted entries featuring illustration, typography, photography and graphic design.
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The French Institute, 3 Queensberry Place, London SW7 Wednesday 3 February 2010, 7.30 Quentin Blake and Bruno Heitz on Children's Literature Quentin Blake and French author-illustrator, Bruno Heitz, discussed children's literature and illustration from their perspectives on either side of the channel. The debate was also animated by a drawing contest! Bruno Heitz is a prolific comic-book artist and illustrator whose series are published by Gallimard and Le Seuil
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Quentin Blake Day at Chris Beetles Gallery, Sunday 13 December 2009 Chris Beetles Gallery 8 & 10 Ryder Street, London SW1Y 6QB Quentin Blake made a special appearance at this pre-Christmas celebration which featured 91 of his wonderful drawings.
Illustration from Quentin's latest book, Angelica Sprocket's Pockets, to be published in Spring 2010
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Friday 13 November 2009 at 6pm National Theatre, London SE1 Quentin Blake and David Walliams Little Britain's David Walliams was joined by his illustrator to talk about his newchildren's book, Mr Stink, a hilarious tale of family secrets....and a tramp in a shed. Followed by a book signing
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Book signing at Harrods' branch of Waterstone's Saturday 14 November 2009 12.00 - 1.30 Quentin also signed books at Harrods along with other well-known children's authors and illustrators.
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Saturday 3 October 2009 at 10.30 National Theatre, London Roald Dahl Day To celebrate the fourth annual Roald Dahl Day, his principal illustrator Quentin Blake drew live on stage, in the company of actors who read from Dahl's ever-popular books.
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Quentin Blake at The Prince's Drawing School Wednesday 6 May 2009 18.30-20.30 Quentin was the very special guest-of-honour at the annual exhibition of The Prince's Drawing School's Young Artists Programme.
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Quentin Blake at the Fantastic Frobscottle Weekend Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green
Along with over 1200 other visitors, Quentin attended this gloriumptious Bank Holiday weekend of Snozzcumbers and Frobscottle mayhem and signed more books than he could count! The exhibition continues until September 2009.
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Ten Years of the Children’s Laureate A Platform event at the National Theatre, London Monday 27 April 2009 18.00-18.45 Quentin Blake joined Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Michael Rosen and Jacqueline Wilson to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the Children’s Laureate. They reflected on the fun and challenges of being Laureate and discussed the current trend of dramatic adaptations of children’s novels. Chaired by John Mullan.
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Quentin Blake in Connecting Conversations at the Anna Freud Centre Sunday 8 February 2009, 18.30-20.00 Connecting Conversations is a series of events bringing together practitioners from the world of psychoanalysis with leading practitioners from other fields. Quentin was in conversation with psychotherapist Avi Schmueli and you can listen in on them at Connecting Conversations
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Quentin Blake at the Institut Français, Friday 6 February 2009, 18.00 As part of the Institut Français' annual Festival de la Jeunesse and also its 'Cross-Channel' series, Quentin spoke about his love-love relationship with France and described some of the many projects he has worked on in that country, including the decorative scheme he recently created for the Trousseau Children's Hospital in Paris. There was also an exhibition of prints of the original drawings for this scheme in the Library of the Institut Français.
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Quentin Blake and David Walliams at Selfridges, Thursday 4 December 2008 16.30-17.30 Quentin and Little Britain star David Walliams appeared at the Foyles Book Shop, Lower Ground Floor in the Oxford Street branch of Selfridges to sign books.
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Quentin Blake at Dulwich Picture Gallery, 20 November 2008 Quentin spoke about the current exhibition What are you like? which features a new work by him.
The exhibition was put together in conjunction with the House of Illustration, a new museum project dedicated to the art of illustration. |
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Quentin Blake at the Oxford Union Tuesday 28 October 2008 saw the Oxford Union's library packed to bursting point by students desperate to hear Quentin's talk 'The Road to St Pancras'. In the talk he described the recent projects in which his drawings have escaped from the pages books and appeared large on hospital walls, building wraps and many other places.
Photo courtesy Eddie Gallagher
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Quentin Blake and his three fellow-Children’s Laureates unveil Holograms at Unicorn Theatre Four holographic portraits of the last four Children’s Laureates were unveiled at the Unicorn Theatre in London at 12.30pm on Tuesday 5th June 2007. All four Children’s Laureates came together for the first time ever to see their portraits.
Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson have all posed for the Unicorn Theatre’s photographic Artist-in-Residence, Lisa Barnard. Lisa collaborated on this project with holographer Rob Munday who has previously created a holographic portrait of The Queen.
These three-dimensional head shots show the four authors reading from the books they most enjoyed writing. The holograms are permanently exhibited at the Unicorn Theatre portraits, emphasising the essential connection between the visual and performing arts and literature.
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Quentin Blake at The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye Saturday 2 June 2007 at 2.30, Barclays Wealth Pavilion |
New building in Quentin’s old school named after him Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School was Quentin’s secondary school (he was taught English there by a man called JH Walsh who he says really inspired him). It’s now recognising its famous ex-student by naming its new art block after him. Quentin was there on 29 March 2007 to declare the building open. |
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Quentin Blake, parrots and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts until 29 April 2007 Quentin Blake is well known as a parrot fan and supporter.
He recently opened a new exhibition The Parrot in Art:From Dürer
to Elizabeth Butterworth at the Barber Institute of Fine
Arts in Birmingham. The exhibition explored the parrot’s role
in art and featured loans from collections such as the National Gallery,
Tate Britain, the Royal Collection and a work by Quentin himself Cockatoos
at Christmas. Quentin Blake with Barber Institute Director, Richard Verdi and fellow parrot artist Elizabeth Butterworth Edward Moss Photography |
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