Quentin Blake - As large as life

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venue:

Foundling Museum
40 Brunswick Sqaure, London
WC1N 1AZ

Contact Name:

Gemma Colgan

Contact Number:

020 7841 3600

Contact Email:

enquiries@foundlingmuseum.org.uk

Date:

(Daily event) Jan 12, 2012 to Apr 14, 2012 (ended)View all dates

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Thu 12th Jan 12 at 11:00am (ended)
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Wed 11th Apr 12 at 11:00am (ended)
Thu 12th Apr 12 at 11:00am (ended)
Fri 13th Apr 12 at 11:00am (ended)
Sat 14th Apr 12 at 11:00am (ended)

Cost:

£7.50

description:

Quentin Blake is one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful illustrators. Well known for illustrating stories by Roald Dahl, Blake was Britain’s first Children’s Laureate. Quentin Blake – As large as life presents recent work created for four hospitals in the UK and France and designed to have a therapeutic effect on their residents.

This exhibition of over sixty works, draws from four series' that were created for a children’s hospital, a maternity hospital, young people with eating disorders and older patients with mental health issues. The subject of each illustration will allow visitors to reflect on artists’ continuing contribution to hospitals and child welfare. Hanging alongside Blake’s work will be paintings by William Hogarth and his contemporaries who donated paintings and sculptures to the Foundling Hospital in the 1740s. The Museum’s art collection, spanning more than four centuries, will provide visitors with an unexpected and resonant backdrop; one that situates Blake within a tradition of great artists creating work for hospitals.

Visitors will discover senior circus characters juggling and tightrope walking; alien creatures from Planet Zog swapping doctor and patient roles with young people; young people engaging in activities that celebrate the quiet poetry and pleasures of everyday life and mothers and babies meeting for the first time underwater, in a parallel world where their swimming expresses and celebrates their new-found liberty after the pains of labour.

"...an exhibition which is ambitious, intrepid and joyful." The Telegraph