Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration — Attraction in London

The House of Illustration is a public art gallery in London devoted to illustration. Opened in 2014 and founded by Sir Quentin Blake, the gallery is located at 2 Granary Square in the London Borough of Camden. Exhibitions display the art of illustration in many forms, including advertisements, animation, comic books and manga, children's literature and picture books, political cartoons, scientific illustrations and fashion design.

Artists featured in exhibitions include established and upcoming artists, including Quentin Blake, E.H. Shepard, Lauren Child, Paula Rego, Hattie Stewart and David Lemm. One exhibition featured over 120 original illustrations that appeared in Ladybird Books titles, in celebration of the publisher's 100th anniversary.The gallery's building was designed by Lewis Cubitt in 1850 and was part of the King’s Cross Goods Yard. The building is part of the King's Cross Central project, and has been restored, standing alongside Central Saint Martins in the neighbouring...

Nifty little place. Set up by Quentin Blake, former RCA Illustration prof, and others to house shows of the graphic figuration that artists working outside of Fine Art produce. It's a smaller venue than the work that fills deserves but it's sorely needed. The current shows include a retrospective of comic strips, illustration and graphic novels by Post Simmonds who really should have had several by now. So it's a great exercise in catch up, just round the corner from the relatively new home to Central St Martin's College. Coming out of the Simmonds show , everyone in the streets looked as though they were potential raw material for one her comic stories - which is as much a testament to how she puts into her work as to the House of Illustration and it's environs. However, it's a positive moment. It's the kind of place that could be wholly devoted to one subject - let's say, for example, a Le Dernier Cri retrospective - but this just shows how much...

Writing at the very, very beginning of House of Illustration's first public events programme, there's already great promise in the air. Their Housewarming season opened with talks from established illustrators, workshops and screenings as well as a day-long illustrators' fair. Rachel Lillie is their first Illustrator-in-Residence and who is documenting the gallery and activities as they take shape.

The 'world's first gallery and education space devoted to celebrating and promoting illustration in all its forms' launches with its first exhibition on the work of Quentin Blake in July. Look forward to an important new cultural...