Rose Blake
Rose Blake is an illustrator living and working in London. Having just graduated from from the Illustration and Animation degree course at Kingston University she will go on to study at the Royal College of Art later this year. She has produced work and t-shirts for a wide variety of clients - Pussy Glamore lingerie, Tough Love Records, Vice Magazine, The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, Volume Magazine, Cafe Royal and The Barbican Art Gallery Shop to name but a few – and works and exhibibits with the Illustrator and animator group ‘This Is It’. Inspired by a unique variety of the everyday and the extraordinary, from pigeons and cigarettes, to poetry and Talking Heads tours, Blake’s quirky and entertaining illustrations have a universal appeal.
Stunted Sonnet
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Illustration
57cm x 75cm
Screen print, Edition of 4
Using a poem by Adrain Mitchell which Blake heard him read in one of his final public engagements, the artist invites the viewer to consider the many ways in which smoking is comparable to sex. Funny precisely because it is true, the colourful array of images gently mock the somehow all-encompassing intensity of human behaviours.
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