Day 1 - Preparation for the exhibition

Good Morning Wroclaw

We have arrived to Wroclaw around midday, it was sunny and warm, the flight was good. We manage to meet old friend, have a nice lunch and walk through the town. we visited Edith Stein house and had a dinner with all people that came from across Europe for our workshops, tomorrow is a big day opening of our exhibition and start of the workshops. Very excited....

About Tim

And last in the series, but certainly not least, the sensational Tim Smart.

Tim Smart is an illustrator who uses pictures to tell stories. 

His work is not always a linear narrative but in these cases the images have a cumulative effect where the images and sounds come together as a whole to give the reader a sense of the story. 

He feels it is not only the narrative points of the story that are important but conveying a sense of emotion and atmosphere that add an extra layer to the readers' experience of the work.

More of Tim's work can be found at:

http://timsmartillustration.tumblr.com

About Sara

This afternoon's post is on the wonderful Sara Taghdimi.

Born in 1987 in Tehran, Iran, Sara received a BA in Graphic Design from The University of Tehran in 2010 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2011.

She is currently organising and running creative workshops at the Brighton Museum, and is a member of the team involved in opening the “World Stories” exhibition there. She also works as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator with startup companies and groups.

She is mainly interested in narrative image making and her illustration style is based on fairytales and epics. Her illustrations do not always follow a linear narrative, but they try to keep a consistent voice throughout the work folio. She bases the characters on the scenes of the epics, then translates them into her personal visual language to make a new fantasy world. 

More at:

www.sarataghdimi.com

About Ruchi

Ruchi Shah is an illustrator recently graduated from Camberwell College of Arts. She is a visiting scholar represented by the Charles Wallace Trust in association with the British Council in UK. With a flair for working with screen-printing and different materials, her current work includes using everyday objects, string and wire for making artwork.

Previously, Ruchi has studied Advertising and Visual Design in India. She has had 3 years of experience as a senior visual designer, involved in design research, and presently as an illustrator with over 10 successfully published books in India, in multiple regional languages. Defining one category for all her works is no easy task. With a focus in screen-printing, she has custom designed limited edition books for clients. 

Having worked with a corporate, start-ups, non-profit organizations and publishing houses her current work revolves around making hand crafted illustrations and more recently 3D spaces designed to be illustrations crafted out of paper, clay, wire etc. Ruchi has recently exhibited her work at the Blackall Studio’s in London as a part of a group show.

More of Ruchi's work can be found at:

http://be.net/ruchishah

About Matt

In collaboration with Hurdy Gurdy on the 'I will tell you a story' project, Mr Matt Horan.

Matt is an exotic émigré bibliomaniac who occasionally draws things, and possesses a desire to mask his unremarkable past in a brutally windswept town on the far-flung reaches of civilisation. 

An ex-animator, his animated films have been featured in a handful of festivals, winning an occasional award here and there, and stony faced disdain most other times.

His proudest biographical achievement is a tie between incurring the burning hatred of Amanda Palmer at a book signing and invoking the slightly self-aggrandising comment of a Chapman brother.

Matt has a tendency to botch situations that require an arbitrarily formal tone of voice.

Find more of his work at:

http://linesdamnlines.tumblr.com

About Marta

Marta Wawryszuk is the creative mind behind the concept of Hurdy Gurdy and has been instrumental in the organisation of it's upcoming projects in Poland. Here is more about her.

Marta graduated in 2009 from the University of Bedfordshire and  she started her MA Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in 2010. 

She has gained experience working on many different types of projects including branding, editorial illustration, education projects and commissioned art work for public spaces. 

Her work gained recognition in various countries and she has been working with clients from Canada, Turkey, Poland and the United Kingdom; the list of clients include names as Verdi Design, Auburn Developments, Uppercase, Wellcome Collection, Outsourcing Magazine, and Dukkana.

To see more of her work visit her site at:

www.mimi-illustration.blogspot.com

www.mimi-illustration.com