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Illustration of an outdoor seating area

Peony Gent: Overlay

1 – 27 September 2021 Pancras Square, King’s Cross

Pencil sketch of a portrait on a man with a moustache wearing a leather peaked cap. The background includes sketches of a number of well-built men posing.

Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation

6 March – 28 June 2020 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

A wall of bright typography screen prints in white frames

George Him: A Polish Designer for Mid-Century Britain

31 January – 10 May 2020 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

W. E. B. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives

8 November 2019 – 1 March 2020 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

A colourful poster featuring Che Guevara

Designed in Cuba: Cold War Graphics

27 September 2019 – 19 January 2020 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

A wall of bright typography screen prints in white frames

Marie Neurath: Picturing Science | Past 2019 Exhibition

19 July – 13 November 2019 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

Illustration of an older woman dressed in warm clothes hugging herself to suggest she's out in the cold

Posy Simmonds: A Retrospective

24 May – 15 September 2019 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

An embroidered comic of a rabbit enacting aeroplane safety protocol

YiMiao Shih: Rabbrexit Means Rabbrexit

29 March – 14 July 2019 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

A simple line drawing of Madeline waving

Ludwig Bemelmans: Sketches for Madeline

1 March – 28 April 2019 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

A wall of bright typography screen prints in white frames

Corita Kent: Power Up

8 February – 12 May 2019 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

black and white sketch of refugees standing in line

Journeys Drawn: Illustration from the Refugee Crisis Exhibition

9 November 2018 – 24 March 2019 Exhibited at the House of Illustration

Charcoal drawing depicting a reclining figure

100 Figures: The Unseen Art of Quentin Blake

5 October 2018 – 27 January 2019 Exhibited at the House of Illustration

Detailed drawing of an army of playing cards, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

John Vernon Lord: Illustrating Carroll and Joyce

13 July to 4 November 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

An intricate wavy black, white and red pattern.

Enid Marx: Print, Pattern and Popular Art

25 May – 23 September 2018 Exhibited at the House of Illustration

Drawing of men on their fours dragging a chariot with a man wearing a flamboyant hat

Voyages to the Moon and the Sun

4 May – 30 September 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

Textured and atmospheric drawing of floating people, rendered in dry media.

Christy Burdock: The People in the Gallery

28 March – 8 July 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

Bold North Korean stamps

Made in North Korea: Everyday Graphics from the DPRK

23 February – 13 May 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

Loose drawing of a nude figure running from a flying arrow

Arrows of Love

14 February – 29 April 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

Annotated sketch of a costume with an elaborate hoop skirt

Gerald Scarfe: Stage and Screen

22 September 2017 – 10 February 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross

Full colour drawing of whimsical characters climbing a large tree

From the Studio

Permanent display House of Illustration, King’s Cross

Drawing of two people with spiky multicoloured hair holding hands and looking at eachother

Jo Brocklehurst: Nobodies and Somebodies

3 February – 14 May 2017 House of Illustration, King’s Cross