{"id":259204,"date":"2025-11-03T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259204\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:07:07","slug":"quentin-blake-illustration-centre-to-open-in-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259204\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Blake illustration centre to open in spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Quentin set up a charity for illustration in 2002 and the House of Illustration was based in rented space in King&#8217;s Cross between 2014 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new centre aims to open in spring with a solo exhibition in the Grade II listed Engine House by MURUGIAH, whose brightly coloured art is inspired by film, sci-fi, Japanese anime and 2000&#8217;s era pop-punk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration&#8217;s director Lindsey Glen said: &#8220;Every day, people all over the world use illustration to share stories and ideas \u2013 to communicate, express, inform and persuade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now, there will be a place where everyone can explore this important, yet overlooked art form, filled with imaginative exhibitions, installations, books, play and making.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Quentin set up a charity for illustration in 2002 and the House of Illustration was based in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-259204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}