Lucinda Rogers

Lucinda Rogers is an English illustrator and artist.[1][2] [3]

She is best known as an illustrator of newspaper columns, including Jonathan Meades' "A Sense of Place" in The Times, and the "Weasel" column written by Christopher Hirst, Alexander Chancellor and several others in The Independent from 1993 to 2008[4] and also a column in The Daily Telegraph by Andrew Lloyd Webber, A Matter of Taste, from 1996 to 2000.

Books illustrated by Rogers include The Dictionary of Urbanism, Spitalfields Life and The Unexpected Professor by John Carey. She designed the covers of six novels by Angus Wilson published in paperback by Penguin Books, and contributed one hundred drawings to a cookbook by Rowley Leigh called No Place Like Home.[5] Rogers also drew the cover and illustrations for a new translation of Histories Naturelles by Jules Renard published by Alma Books in 2010 (the first edition of 1896 had illustrations by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec). Her work for The Guardian includes main features in the Review section.[6]

Rogers is also known for her drawings of cities, particularly London and New York, and as a "reportage" artist, drawing directly from life. She was given special access to draw a group of 33 ink on paper works, and one work in colour, at the Ground Zero site at the World Trade Centre in the winter of 2001-2.[7][8]

A series of Lucinda Rogers drawings made in Tottenham in 2015 entitled Employment Land Portfolio was exhibited during the London Festival of Architecture that year.[9] On a similar theme, she drew scenes of the specialist printers Baddeley Brothers (see Baddeley baronets) for their book.[10]

She was a judge at the University of the West of England (Bristol) 'Reportager Awards' in 2015, celebrating achievements in documentary drawing.[11] In 2016 she exhibited her drawings of Workspaces Rook Lane Chapel in Frome, Somerset, and at L'Escargot, a French restaurant in Soho, London.

Lucinda Rogers' work is represented in many permanent collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum,[12] Her drawings of New York and London have been exhibited at the Oxo Tower on London's South Bank.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Elgot, Jessica (3 May 2012). "Artist drawn to support restored East End shul". The Jewish Chronicle.
  2. ↑ "24 hours with First Hand". Eye Magazine. January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Drawing Out Ideas". Design Week. 12 Sep 2002.
  4. ↑ Hirst, Christopher (3 October 2008). "The Weasel: Goodbye to all that". The Independent.
  5. ↑ "Cook the Books by Tamasin Day-Lewis". Telegraph Book Review. 14 Dec 2000.
  6. ↑ "Read, think, relax" (PDF). The Guardian Review Section. 27 May 2006.
  7. ↑ "Lucinda Rogers at Ground Zero". Ambit Poetry Magazine No170. 2002.
  8. ↑ "Falmouth University Illustration Forum on Reportage" (PDF). Falmouth University Reportage Illustration Forum Booklet. 2014.
  9. ↑ "Employment Land portfolio - Drawings of Tottenham". London Architecture Diary. June 2015.
  10. ↑ "Creative Review". Review of Baddeley Bros book by Rachael Steven. 19 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "Reportager award 2015". Reportager Award with Moleskine at UWE. 2015.
  12. ↑ "V&A 150 Years Anniversary Album". The V&A Collections. June 2007.
  13. ↑ "Changing tales of two cities". The Evening Standard. 24 April 2002.

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