Michael Rosen: The Illustrators

An exhibition celebrating the life and work of author, poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen, explored through the works of the illustrators who have brought his children's books to life. 

Pencil sketches, watercolour, film, digital art, and collage by 14 illustrators will be on show including works by Korky Paul, Quentin Blake, and Tony Ross.  Claire Mackie’s illustrations for Rosen’s Book of Nonsense and images from his latest books, illustrated by David Melling and Michael Foreman. 

'Michael Rosen: The Illustrators' is on show at the Willis Museum, Basingstoke, taking a journey through Rosen's life and career from the 1970s to the present.   Rosen says children who read his books see the words and pictures as "one whole thing....not as separate elements.  They combine in fascinating ways, each side of the combination contributing to the other: words informing the pictures, the pictures informing the words."
 
Besides illustrations, the exhibition includes examples of Rosen’s poetry and storytelling, and a timeline of his career as one of our best-loved children's writers. 

'Michael Rosen: The Illustrators' is a touring exhibition curated by the Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner.