Iro Tsavala

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Communication

  Programme

  MA Visual Communication, 2008

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• [email protected]
  07956 992936
  http://www.iroillustration.gr/

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• I like to think of drawing as a way of narrating.

  
  

  It involves ideas that I would like to share, but wouldn’t be able to express otherwise. I often have an urge to create characters, to put them into stories and see how they behave.

  
  

  Other times I choose to say things using single images or moving images.

  
  

  My inspiration comes from diverse sources: a face spurs an interesting thought; some puzzling lyrics or text urge me to begin a narrative.

  
  

  I find the unbelievable in the everyday. I like to think that something unexpected is always about to happen!

  
  

• Degrees

• BA (Hons) Illustration, Kent Institute of Art and Design, 2005

• Experience

• Picture book commission for No More TV, Metaichmio Publications, Athens, Greece, 2006; Illustration commission for Illustrated Dictionary, Media Vaca, Valencia, 2006; Book cover for Your Own Worst Enemy, Goodmorning Press, Taiwan, 2006; T-shirt print design for 'Summer in the City' feature, Monopoli magazine, Athens, Greece, 2006

• Exhibitions

• We Came To Take Your Jobs Away, Celje Castle, Slovenia/ Royal College of Art, 2007; On the Edge of Life, Bath International Music Festival 07; Oberon Book Illustration Awards, Royal College of Art, 2007; Illustrating Andersen - The Emperors New Illustrations (Illustrators' Exhibition), Bologna Children's Bookfair, Bologna, Italy, 2005

• Awards

• First prize, Editorial-Cover, WPPAtticus Journal, 2007; Special Mention, Animation, Audiovisual Awards for Kids aged 6-12 (Greek National Television), 2007; Selected Artist, Childrens Book Illustration, Bologna Children's Bookfair, 2005