Venue:

BIAD: Gosta Green Campus

Start Time:

10:00

Start Date

11/03/2010

End Date

16/04/2010

Price:

Free

Tags: exhibition, illustration

A rare exhibition of personal authorial work by Andrew Foster, whose commercial work has been seen everywhere from the cover of 'New Scientist' to Liberty's shop windows.

The potential applications for illustration have never been so abundant. Creative outputs now include collectable designer toys, fashion products, animation etc.

Rather than waiting for markets to emerge, many illustrators today actively pursue an authorial output beyond the constraints of established publishing houses and retail outlets.

They choose to break free: self-publishing fanzines and magazines; launching own-label products, such as fashion items, T shirts, badges, flick books and stickers; and promoting self initiated limited edition artworks through the use of online websites and more traditional gallery shows.

In his recent work, Andrew Foster asks

• How does authorial practice determine content?
• How has online publishing changed previously well-established roles such as illustrator, author, art director, distributor etc?
• What is the new role of commissioner / art director / agent?

'I was blind but now I can see' is a rare opportunity to see Andrew's recent work and to view the depiction of personal issues he has addressed in non-commissioned work.

Venue: School of Visual Communication Gallery, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (Gosta Green Campus - B4 7DX)

Opening Times:

15 March - 26 March
Monday - Thursday: 10am-8pm
Friday: 10am-4pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed

29 March - 16 April
(Closed Good Friday & Easter Monday)
Monday - Thursday: 10am-6pm
Friday: 10am-4pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed 

IMAGES: New Plan of the Ark (left) and Inside the Eye (right), both (c) Andrew Foster