Roll up, roll up and… POP UP! Here it comes! The best book festival known to man (or beast)!

IN JUST TWO WEEKS I will be working with Clara Vulliamy and another artist, Vanessa Stone, in a unique and spectacular space: Let me introduce to you to…. (drum  roll)…

THE POP-UP PICTURE PAVILION

A magical gallery where art comes alive! Created by set design students (Fabrizio and Gabriella), from my concept, the gallery will  have crazy recreations of masterpieces  and these will be added too throughout the day as gradually the gallery is filled with more and more art created by … CHILDREN!

Here  you can see one "masterpiece" inspired by Turner, created at the Guardian Open Day a few months ago, which will be part of the exhibition. 

Also, here are some of the early sketches and designs for the pavilion. And you can see Clara, Vanessa and Gabriella enjoying tea and cake at Eat Shop Do, just round the corner from the Festival site. Which is:

Granary Square, Kings Cross (beside the new Central St Martin’s School of Art).

One of the festival highlights of last year was creating a giant pop up book for the very first (award winning) pop up festival. Now I’m back, joining an amazing line up: 

Sarah McIntyre, Marcus Sedgwick, Clara Vulliamy, Vanessa Stone, Candy Gourlay, Nii Parkes, Laura Dockrill, storytellers and bookshops and music and… oh so many things! Come and see for yourself, it’s all FREE !!!

BUT: Important note: the two days feature DIFFERENT line –ups. So check carefully. Or just come BOTH days! I’ll be there on Sunday July 1^st from 1pm. So come along and help me create the biggest and best children’s gallery of magic art EVER! (and stay a while for some stories too).

For full details, visit the Pop Up Website: http://pop-up.org.uk/pop-up-picture-pavilion/http://pop-up.org.uk/pop-up-picture-pavilion/

SEE YOU THERE!