Original picture book artwork by Christopher Corr is available for purchase from Images of Delight.
Christopher Corr was born in London in 1955 to Irish parents. He studied Graphic Design at Manchester Polytechnic and was awarded the Leverhulme Travelling Scholarship to the USA in 1979. He returned to complete a masters at the Royal College of Art where he won the RCA Drawing Prize.
He has had dozens of one man shows since 1983, mainly influenced by his extensive travels, at the Curwen, Berkeley Square, and Cadogan Galleries. He’s currently working for two exhibitions for 2008. The first for MIDAN (Musee d’art naif) in France and the second for Castor & Pollux in Brighton focusing on cities. His work has been awarded many times including the Chelsea Arts Club Graphics Prize, the Lloyd Bank Printmaking scholarship, the D&AD; Silver Award and the Association Of Illustrators Silver Award for his work on A Suitable Boy. Last year he won the Print Magazine (USA) award for Design Excellence for Windstar Cruises brochures. Christopher has worked on numerous commissions including a Royal Mail millennium stamp about the UN Peace-keeping Force in Bosnia. In 1996 and 1997 he was artist for Quantas and produced paintings, posters and prints. He has also painted posters and cards and other matierials for London Transport, National Aids Trust, Body Shop, Habitat and Ikea, UNICEF, Kensington & Chelsea Healthcare Authority, and Waterstones.
More recently he’s been branching out into animation and made his first film with Sherbet (www.sherbet.co.uk) for the Rotary Foundation, about bringing clean water to the third world.
Further information can be found on www.christophercorr.com
ILLUSTRATIONS
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Indian Tales, written by by Shenaaz Nanji and illustrated by Christopher Corr. First published in 2007 by Barefoot Books Ltd.
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Whole World, published by Barefoot Books in 2007. Comes with a music cd of the song (with an environmental twist) sung by Fred Penner.
The book is printed on forest friendly paper and a percentage of the sales goes towards various global conservation charities.
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Michel Tournier is a highly respected journalist, broadcaster and author of numerous books for adults and children. Friday and Robinson was an immediate success when it was first published in 1971. Now a cult classic , it still sells over 100,000 copies a year in France alone.
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Ebby Meets Felicity, written by Matt Hickey, published 2004 by Chrysalis Children’s Books.
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The Arabian Nights, retold by Fiona Waters, first published 2002 by Pavilion Children’s Books.
The humour and energy of Fiona Waters’ retelling is perfectly matched by Christopher Corr’s vibrant artwork. This is a sumptuous book!
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My Granny Went to Market, written by Stella Blackstone, published 2005 by Barefoot Books Ltd.
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Under the Moon & Over the Sea, A Collection of Caribbean Poems, edited by John Agard & Grace Nichols, various illustrators. First published 2002 by Walker Books Ltd.
The book contains more than fifty poems, by over 30 poets, including John Agard, Grace Nichols, James Berry, Valerie Bloom and Benjamin Zephaniah.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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South and North, East and West. The Oxfam Book of Children’s Stories, edited by Michael Rosen, The Four Brothers illustrated by Christopher Corr, published by Walker Books, 1992
Under the Moon & Over the Sea, edited by John Agard & Grace Nichols, cover, end papers, title page, contents pages, index pages and Listening to the Land illustrated by Christopher Corr, published by Walker Books, 2002
The Arabian Nights, retold by Fiona Waters, published by Pavilion Children’s Books, 2002
Moosewood Restaurant Celebrates, published by Random House N.Y., 2003
Friday and Robinson, written by Michel Tournier, published by Walker Books, 2003
Just So Stories, written by Rudyard Kipling, How the Rhinocerous got his Skin, illustrated by Christopher Corr, published by Walker Books, 2004
Ebby Meets Felicity, written by Matthew Hickey, published by Pavilion Children’s Books, 2004
On Voyage, written by Claude Helft, published by Desclee de Brouwer, 2004
My Granny Went to Market, written by Stella Blackstone,
published by Barefoot Books Ltd, 2005
Cashmere if you Can,for Saks 5th Avenue, published by Random House U.S.A 2005
Indian Tales, published by Barefoot Books, 2006
Off We Went to Mexico, written by Laurie Krebs and published by Barefoot Books, 2006
Whole World, published by Barefoot Books, 2007
Tomato, A Story About Cuba for Yeowon Media, Korea, 2008
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir, published by The Folio Society, 2008
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, BBC Audiobooks, volumes 1-8, 2008