{"id":613417,"date":"2026-05-31T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613417\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:02:08","slug":"quentin-blake-mural-revealed-at-new-clerkenwell-arts-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613417\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Blake mural revealed at new Clerkenwell arts centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new mural by Sir Quentin Blake has been unveiled in north London ahead of the opening of his a new illustration centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artist has written or illustrated more than 500 books and is best known for his drawings in Roald Dahl&#8217;s works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His new work, A Bridge to the Past, explores the history of the New River &#8211; the artificial waterway built between London and Hertfordshire in the 1600s &#8211; and its relationship with the surrounding community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Quentin visited the Quentin Blake Illustration Centre in Clerkenwell to reveal the piece before the venue, where the artwork will be displayed, opens to the public on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new mural by Sir Quentin Blake has been unveiled in north London ahead of the opening of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}