Graphic Fiction Salon: Folk and Fairy Tales Retold
Rachael Ball, artist
23 January 10:00am – 12:30pm (London)
Create a zine/comic strip inspired by personal experience and folk/fairy tales. Illustrator and cartoonist Rachael Ball will lead us through exercises to stretch our imagination and help us communicate character and plot in new ways.
We will begin by exploring the Anahid story (The Golden Bracelet), look at fairytales that have resonated with us and discuss their possible connection with our lives. Using creative visualisation we will transform personal experiences into our own fairytale visual narratives.
We encourage you to bring your own favourite fairy or folk stories from any background.
All levels of skill and experience.
Please have pencil and paper ready, along with any other materials you wish to try.
BIO:
Rachael Ball has been a cartoonist/ illustrator since 1988 and an Art teacher since 2001. She started producing regular strips for cult comic ‘Deadline’ in 1988. Her first graphic novel, ‘The Inflatable Woman’ (Bloomsbury), was a Guardian Best Graphic Novel 2015. Her work has featured in the HOI’s ‘Comixatrix’ exhibition and in the Cartoon Museum’s ‘The Inking Woman’ exhibition and she had a solo exhibition at the Cartoon Museum in 2018.
In 2017 she received Arts Council funding in order to complete her second graphic novel, WOLF. This story is based on the death of her father as a child and will be published by Self Made Hero in October 2018.
Her third graphic novel ‘The Patsy Papers’ is based on her experiences of teaching in secondary schools. This novel is a new venture being a political satire that spotlights the effect of austerity on British schools.
She taught in secondary schools for 16 years and currently teaches children’s book and graphic novel courses at the House of Illustration and at The Art Academy and is one of the London coordinators for LDComics (a forum that seeks to improve opportunity for all female or female-identifying cartoonists.)
PRICES: £15 for the session (£12 concessions)