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Quentin Blake, Airborne, 2019, pen ink and watercolour on paper © The Artist.
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Quentin Blake, Airborne, 2019, pen ink and watercolour on paper © The Artist.
Exhibition
Quentin Blake: Airborne
18 Jan 2020 – 22 Mar 2020
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Address
- Hastings Contemporary
- Rock-a-nore Road
- Hastings
England - TN34 3DW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The 20, 100 and 101 buses from Hastings train station stop at the Stade bus stop which is a short walk away.
- Hastings Contemporary is approximately 15 minutes’ walk from Hastings train station. Direct train services run regularly to London, Brighton and Ashford International.
Sir Quentin Blake (b. 1932) is an internationally celebrated artist and illustrator, and Hastings Contemporary’s Artist Patron. Airborne is the latest in an ongoing series of artworks Blake has created for the gallery, all featuring wonderful creations and characters in his distinctive style.
About
Blake has collaborated with writers including Will Self, Michael Rosen, David Walliams, Joan Aiken and Roald Dahl, and has written and illustrated many of his own books. He was the first Children’s Laureate and has won lots of prizes and awards, including the Whitbread Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 2007 Blake was made an Officer of the Légion d’Honneur, the highest French order of merit, and he received a knighthood in 2013. Blake lives and works in London and Hastings.
‘Blake is beyond brilliant. He is anarchic, moral, infinitely subversive, sometimes vicious … lavish in the details when he feels like it. He can tell wonderful stories without a single word … I’ve never met a child who didn’t love Quentin Blake.’
Melanie McDonagh, Daily Telegraph
