GUERRA CIVILIA
2009
This work looks at Bilbao during the Civil War in the 1930's. It is informed by photographs found in a small archive in Bilbao. Some tackle the story of the refugees that left under Franco's rule, and others the slightly surreal, carnivalesque celebrations of the time.
German-English Illustrator, based in Brighton, UK
I am an illustrator and educator, with a
particular focus on sequential narrative and drawing.
Much of my work focuses on exploring how illustration can be used as an active tool for understanding, interpreting and re-evaluating dominant narratives and discourse about historical events, asking: How can illustration add to our understanding of history, how can it challenge it?
I am interested in exploring and highlighting the ways in which history is recorded, suppressed, remembered and distorted. I have become particularly interested in how meaning and underlying power structures contained within archival records can be interpreted through the act of drawing.
More recent projects and research have become focused on the use of auto-ethnographic practices within comic making, the use of digital stimuli within illustration, and expanded definitions of illustration practice.
Much of my work focuses on exploring how illustration can be used as an active tool for understanding, interpreting and re-evaluating dominant narratives and discourse about historical events, asking: How can illustration add to our understanding of history, how can it challenge it?
I am interested in exploring and highlighting the ways in which history is recorded, suppressed, remembered and distorted. I have become particularly interested in how meaning and underlying power structures contained within archival records can be interpreted through the act of drawing.
More recent projects and research have become focused on the use of auto-ethnographic practices within comic making, the use of digital stimuli within illustration, and expanded definitions of illustration practice.