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Major exhibition of Raymond Briggs’ art at The Bowes Museum

by Teesdale Mercury
October 4, 2022
in Art & Leisure
Major exhibition of Raymond Briggs’ art at The Bowes Museum

The snowman

THE first major exhibition about the graphic novelist and picture book maker Raymond Briggs is coming to The Bowes Museum this autumn.
Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective delves into the work of the author-illustrator behind some of the UK’s most influential children’s books and graphic novels.
Briggs, who died earlier this year, is best-known for silent picturebook The Snowman. But over a 60-year career, Briggs created illustrated books on themes from family relationships and grief to social mobility and political satire.
This exhibition includes work from Briggs’s pioneering titles, including The Snowman, Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman and autobiographical novel Ethel and Ernest. On show are his drawings, hand-lettered typography and page designs from his earliest commissions to his 2004 book The Puddleman.
“[To be an illustrator] you have to be a mini actor. If the figure is to walk jauntily with its nose in the air, you have to imagine what that feels like. You have to be the person and observe the person, and do both these things at once,” Briggs once said.
Co-curated by Nicolette Jones and Katie McCurrach, the exhibition features original illustrations courtesy of Raymond Briggs’s Archive and Penguin Random House.
The exhibition is on from November 12 to February 26.

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