In May of 1945, my German Grandmother Inge began the start of a 800km journey to return home to Hamburg, from a small town in Czechoslovakia.
The journey took three months, mostly on foot, accompanied by her 18-month old daughter, and was undertaken when she was heavily pregnant with her second child.
In the summer of 2022, I followed her journey, using her detailed documentation of this time as a guide. Travelling mostly on foot, my own journey took 21 days.
I am currently in the process of working with the drawings, writing, and photographs made during this time.
I am currently in the process of working with the drawings, writing, and photographs made during this 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.