Graham Rawle
Graham Rawle is a UK writer and collage artist whose visual
work incorporates illustration, design, photography and
installation. His weekly Lost Consonants series appeared in the
Weekend Guardian for 15 years. He has produced other
regular series which include ‘Lying Doggo’ and ‘Graham Rawle’s
Wonder Quiz’ for The Observer and ‘When Words Collide’ and
‘Pardon Mrs Arden’ for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine. His
most recent series, Bright Ideas, appeared weekly in The Times
2009-2010.
He has lectured and exhibited his work internationally, heading
the design team that created the 4,000 sq ft
(370 m2) 'Hi-Life' supermarket installation for
EXPO 2000 in Hanover. As director of the Niff Institute, in 2001 he
created a range of limited edition art pieces that form the Niff
Actuals product range.
Among his astonishing published books are
The Wonder Book of Fun,
Lying Doggo,
Diary of an Amateur Photographer and a reinterpretation of
The Wizard of Oz, which won 2009 Book of the Year and best
Illustrated Trade book at the British Book Design Awards. His
critically acclaimed
Woman's World, a novel created entirely from fragments of
found text, is being made into a feature film.
Graham Rawle is a lecturer on the Sequential Design/Illustration
MA at The Faculty of Arts (University of Brighton).