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Ditchling Museum celebrates work by illustrious University of Brighton illustrators

A new exhibition at Ditchling Museum highlights the world-renowned work of Brighton art professor John Vernon Lord, alongside that of famous former students.

14 June 2021

Professor Lord – formerly Professor of Illustration, and now Professor Emeritus - designed and ran the university's Sequential Illustration/Design MA for many years. He gained wider fame for the illustrations he created for classic works by authors including Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and James Joyce – as well as his own 1972 picture book The Giant Jam Sandwich, now regarded as a worldwide classic of children's literature.

The museum is showing never-seen-before drafts from The Giant Jam Sandwich, plus a quirky interactive installation of a giant jam sandwich created by Lord’s former Brighton student Emma Carlow. There are also works by other former students, including Old Bear author and illustrator Jane Hissey, and Chris Riddell, an Honorary Doctorate of the university who has combined a career as a children's author (he was made UK Children’s Laureate in 2015) with searing political cartooning since the 1990s.

John Vernon Lord - on left - with Chris Riddell

John Vernon Lord - on left - with Chris Riddell

Detail from ‘The Book of Taliesyn’, record album cover for Deep Purple by John Vernon Lord

Detail from ‘The Book of Taliesyn’, record album cover for Deep Purple by John Vernon Lord

Running until October, the Ditchling exhibition - Taking a Line for a Walk – looks back over 50 years of Lord’s life and work. It features over 100 extraordinary pen and ink drawings alongside notebooks ranging from 1950s student days through to new work made in response to the current global pandemic. There is also 1960s advertising work, plus fabulous cover art for Deep Purple's 1968 album The Book of Taliesyn. Curiously, the band's keyboard long-time keyboard player was also called Jon Lord...

You can hear Professor Lord in online conversation with Chris Riddell with Q+A at Ditchling Museum on 24 June at 7.30pm.

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