SILENCE! - by Jay Eunji Lee and some great news!

Here is another illustrative interpretation of the word SILENCE as part of our word project. This one, by Jay Eunji Lee, is a little sequence that tells a story. 

Jay usually exhibits with us but as she will not be taking part in our next exhibition in Hove Museum in December (see previous posts for further information) we thought it would be a good opportunity to tell you a bit about her work and show some of it here.

Jay's first picture book - 'The Way to Outer Space' is about a girl's journey to another planet and it includes three different craft activities to encourage children to use their imagination. 

We'd like to congratulate Jay because her picture book was published by Hansol Soobook in Korea last month and is due to be published in the UK today by Oxford University Press - Fantastic!

To see more examples of Jay's work please go to www.fabula.collective.com or www.jaypicturebook.com

Animal Characters by Pip Carter

 Here are some new images from Fabula member Pip Carter. Pip has recently started working in ink/nib and watercolour wash - she is really enjoying the results and it's great to see what she's been working on. Her focus has been on developing her portfolio for the children’s book market. She has been drawing animals and children with an aim to keep a strong feeling of energy, dynamism and emotion in her work - we think it's working!

During her MA Pip developed a picture book for older children. If you'd like to see that and other examples of her work please go to www.pipcarter.co.uk or the Fabula website www.fabulacollective.com

In the meantime, we hope you enjoy these characters!

SILENCE - illustrated word by Juliette Rajak

Juliette has made this sensitive drawing of a sleeping child to illustrate SILENCE. She enjoys creating new ideas for narratives and likes to work with traditional processes, such as etching and aquatint, mixing them with collage and other media. www.julietterajak.com

A little look back - Fabula at Phoenix Gallery - exhibition wins an award

In May and June we were pleased to exhibit at The Phoenix Gallery in Brighton as part of the 'Press & Release 2016' bookarts exhibition. We were thrilled to hear that the exhibition, curated by Maddy Rosenberg and designed by Curious Space, was the
winner of the Brighton Fringe Visual Arts Award 2016. We'd like to thank Phoenix Gallery for inviting us to be part of this exciting exhibition and congratulate them on winning the award.

The north gallery had an amazing exhibition of international book artists curated by Maddy Rosenberg.  The work was displayed impressively on structures designed by Curious Space and built by Ben Thomson.

Our work was exhibited with Sussex Bookarts Collective in the South Gallery in a display called 'Stories about Stories' - definitely what we're about! Also we took part in the table top book event 'Connect and Collect' and Fabula members Vanessa Marr and Pip Carter ran a workshop making handmade books.

Photos below show a cabinet of examples of our work that gave a flavour of Fabula.  The cabinet contained picture books, small models and books made to show working process, single images in sequence, narrative textiles, handmade books and short stories. There was also a chance to see films made by the five film makers in Fabula who also had their films on show throughout the exhibition.

The images below show the workshop led by Vanessa Marr and Pip Carter and some examples of books made.  This was part of the 'Connect and Collect' event. It was a lively but relaxed space where members of the public had a chance to have a go at making handmade books.

We were part of a tabletop exhibition during the 'Connect and Collect' event and all of our books were on display.

Looking forward to the next exhibition, coming soon - watch this space!
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SILENCE - illustrated with analogue photography

Katie Perret has made this beautiful response to the word SILENCE using analogue photography. Fundamentally her work is about the quiet act of looking and perceiving, observing the usually unobserved spaces and capturing the light of this space on the negative and weaving these images together to form narratives. More of Katie's work can be seen at www.fabulacollective.com and at our our next exhibition in December - details to be announced soon!

SILENCE - the new word!

Here's Clara Weifu's illustration for SILENCE. See more of her work at www.claraweifu.com

We really like Clara's drawing style which worked brilliantly for her MA project. It's a story about a traveller who falls asleep and the dreams that he has - you can see this on her website too.

Paper cut outs and shadows

Carrying on with our illustrated words - this is Penelope Chongs response to the word REPEAT.

See more of Penelope's work at www.fabulacollective.com

More images to illustrate the word REPEAT!

Inspiration can come from anywhere! Juliette Rajak says the repetitive task of making sandwiches everyday is where she got the idea for this image - the shape of the trees echoes the clasp on the bread packet.

See more work by Juliette at www.julietterajak.com

Clara Weifu is thinking of REPEAT in a similar way and illustrating things she does everyday.  We like the way she has made them into a PATTERN 

www.claraweifu.tumblr.com

More Images to illustrate the word REPEAT

This illustration by Nele Anders is inspired by thoughts about memory loss and repetition see more of her work at www.neleanders.com

To Illustrate REPEAT Pip Carter has been looking at birds  - lots of seagulls to see here in Brighton!
Check out her beautiful picture book "The Winged Things' for older children at www.pipcarter.co.uk

More soon!

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Word of the month continued...REPEAT

Fabulas: LOUISE DENNIS.. 'Repeat' March 2015

To see more from the talented Louise Dennis check out here new website.. 

www.louisedennisillustration.co.uk

We are a little behind on our word of the month due to being super busy with our exhibition in China.. to read more check out how it went here... http://www.fabulacollective.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/normal_1.html

Keep a look out for the rest of our REPEAT word of the months!

Fabula Collecitve's 'Word Of the Month' is BACK!!!! Our word of the month... REPEAT

We are catching up a little with our word of the month...We will be posting images from our March 2015 word which was 'REPEAT'. 

CLARA WEI FU - 'My Day Repeats'

Fabula in China!

Hurrah!  Fabula Collective’s very first exhibition in China - “Wake Up Your Life With Illustrations”- has been open for 1 month in Zheng Zhou. The opening was on Oct 11^th.

 The exhibitors are Clara Wei Fu, Louise Dennis, Jay Eunji Lee, Nele    Anders, Madeleine Swift, Yoona Lee, Emmi Smid, Nancy Yang and Yuki Yuxian Wu.

30 pieces of artwork are displayed in this show, including illustrations, photographs and animations. All the visitors were welcome to read our picture books and buy artwork.

Thanks to Tomato Lab and the Paper Time Bookstore for so nicely organising the technical stuff and offering such a wonderful exhibition venue.    

Fabula members Yuki and Nancy gave a short speech to briefly introduce Fabula to the visitors and explain what we do.

In order to represent the importance a story plays in an illustration, Yuki and Nancy designed a simple story solitaire game and guided the audience to retell “The Three Little Pigs”!
 
The audience paid close attention to the game.

Eventually, the original story was unexpectedly switched to a funny love story! What a surprise! Everyone in the exhibition couldn't stop laughing!

There were more than 80 visitors at the opening, including local illustrators and designers who shared their stories with us.

After the opening, we asked the visitors to fill out a questionnaire and give us some feedback. From those received questionnaires, it showed that most of the visitors were very interested in the work and were looking forward to seeing more from Fabula Collective.

Some of the visitors asked when the next exhibition of Fabula Collective in China would be. Well, we will see and let you know as soon as possible.

Written by Nancy Yang