Art House 2
Address: 54 Cunningham Square EH15 1BJ
Open: 7/8 and 14/15 September
Illustrator and graphic novelist Sarah Lippett is showing a new series of short comics and prints that explore the diverse narratives of Scotland. The works are illustrated in a variety of materials and printed digitally on high quality archive paper.
Sarah Lippett is a freelance illustrator and published graphic novelist. Lippett’s first graphic novel, Stan and Nan, won the Quentin Blake Prize for Best Narrative at the Royal College of Art and was published in 2016 by Jonathan Cape, becoming a Guardian bestseller and 2016 Book of the Year. Her second autobiographical work, A Puff of Smoke was published by Jonathan Cape in November 2019 and was supported by an Arts Council England Literary award. The memoir became an Observer graphic novel of the month, a Guardian graphic novel of 2019, and received accolades from the Herald and It’s Nice That. Alongside her long form works, Lippett creates socio-political reportage comics focused on telling the stories of diverse communities in locations across the UK and abroad. She lectures in Illustration at the University of Edinburgh, and delivers talks on her practice to a variety of audiences both in the UK and internationally.
Education:
Royal College of Art, London: 2012-2014 MA Visual Communication
University of Brighton, Brighton: 2003-2006 BA(hons) Illustration
Publications:
Everything Amplified (Forthcoming, Spring 2025) YA fictional graphic novel due to be published by Cicada Books in 2025.
The Distance (2023) Voices from Ukraine.
Reportage comics from Ukraine 2016-2023. Published June 2023.
Thank You For A Lovely Day (2023)
A Go-Between’s Song Comic Anthology published by Ventil Verlag, Germany, June, 2023.
Commissioned short story, ‘Here Comes A City’.
A Puff of Smoke (2019) Supported by Arts Council England An autobiographical graphic novel about the struggles of growing up with an undiagnosed rare disease, published by Jonathan Cape in November 2019.
Website: crayonlegs.com
Instagram @crayonlegs
Contact: sarah@crayonlegs.com