Mary Kuper
Mary is a London based illustrator, writer, designer and lecturer
The relationship between text and image is central to her work as an illustrator. Much of my work is to commission, with a particular focus on linguistics. Since receiving the Clarion Press and Fine Press Book Association Illustrated Book Award, 2002for her illustrated Etymological Alphabet, she has produced work about words with the English Project at the University of Winchester, The National Poetry Library and the Endangered Languages Documentation Project at SOAS.
Mary is an Associate Lecturer on the Illustration BA at Camberwell College of Arts,
Mary has several publications, including two pamphlets illustrating poems by Andrew Mitchell in the V&A National Art Library Archive as exemplars of poetry and illustration:
Some Projects: and Exhibitions
2018 Language Shift, National Poetry Library commissioned exhibition, poetry in endangered languages
2015-7 The bone house: The body as metaphor. A joint project with the Endangered Languages Documentation Project at SOAS. Funded by the Arts Council
Illustrations for Voices from the Garden, by Andrew Mitchell
2015 Animal Types, an alphabet of typographic experiments, Big Tomato Company
2014 Illustrations for the The Burial of Lord Byron byAndrewMitchell, acquired by V &A Illustrated book collection
2013 Words and Pictures, Barbican Library
2012Word Origins, Free Word Centre, Farringdon
Barnacles and Dames, celebrating 100 years of the Poetry Library collection, Southbank, London
2011 Drawing Words, Discovery Centre, Winchester
Publication of Etymologies: Plants and Animals, V &A Illustrated book collection
Cass Art Prize at The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead
2009-10 Leverhulme Artist in Residence Award, for work with The English Project, University of Winchester
(shortlisted) Jerwood Drawing Prize
Illustrations for Voyage of the Beagle byAndrewMitchell, City of Bradford Darwin festival and symposium, V &A Illustrated book collection, and Bradford City Museum
2008 Drawing the Neighbourhood 1: Under the Westway,funded by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
2006 Illustrations for Between the Woods and the Water, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Folio Society
2005 Drawing the Neighbourhood2: North Kensingtonbetween Portobello and Golborne Rd, funded by the Arts Council
2004 Illustrations for High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes, Folio Society
2002 An Etymological Alphabet, The Clarion Press and Fine Press Book Association Illustrated Book Award