Quentin Blake: Book Covers
2024 Touring exhibition
Explore our archive of exhibitions on historic and contemporary illustration from recent touring shows and our previous House of Illustration (2014-2020) at King's Cross.
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The BFG in Pictures
24 June 2016 - 23 December 2022 House of Illustration then touring
Bloomin’ Brilliant: The Life and Work of Raymond Briggs
2021 - 2024 Touring exhibition
Quentin Blake: Illustrating Verse
2022 – 2023 Touring exhibition
Peony Gent: Overlay
1 – 27 September 2021 Pancras Square, King’s Cross
Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation
6 March – 28 June 2020 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
George Him: A Polish Designer for Mid-Century Britain
31 January – 10 May 2020 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
W. E. B. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives
8 November 2019 – 1 March 2020 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Designed in Cuba: Cold War Graphics
27 September 2019 – 19 January 2020 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Marie Neurath: Picturing Science | Past 2019 Exhibition
19 July – 13 November 2019 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Posy Simmonds: A Retrospective
24 May – 15 September 2019 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
From the Studio
Permanent display House of Illustration, King’s Cross
YiMiao Shih: Rabbrexit Means Rabbrexit
29 March – 14 July 2019 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Ludwig Bemelmans: Sketches for Madeline
1 March – 28 April 2019 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Corita Kent: Power Up
8 February – 12 May 2019 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Journeys Drawn: Illustration from the Refugee Crisis Exhibition
9 November 2018 – 24 March 2019 Exhibited at the House of Illustration
100 Figures: The Unseen Art of Quentin Blake
5 October 2018 – 27 January 2019 Exhibited at the House of Illustration
Quentin Blake: The Model as Artist
5 Oct 2018 – 24 Feb 2019 House of Illustration, King's Cross
John Vernon Lord: Illustrating Carroll and Joyce
13 July to 4 November 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Enid Marx: Print, Pattern and Popular Art
25 May – 23 September 2018 Exhibited at the House of Illustration
Voyages to the Moon and the Sun
4 May – 30 September 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Christy Burdock: The People in the Gallery
28 March – 8 July 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Made in North Korea: Everyday Graphics from the DPRK
23 February – 13 May 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Arrows of Love
14 February – 29 April 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Lucinda Rogers: On Gentrification
28 October 2017 – 25 March 2018 South Gallery, House of Illustration
John Yeoman and Quentin Blake: 50 Years of Children's Books
6 Oct 2017 – 4 Feb 2018 House of Illustration, Kings Cross
Gerald Scarfe: Stage and Screen
22 September 2017 – 10 February 2018 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Jacqueline Ayer: Drawing on Thailand
16 June – 22 October 2017 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Anime Architecture: Backgrounds of Japan
16 May – 10 September 2017 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Quentin Blake: The Life of Birds
5 May – 1 October 2017 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Nous Vous: Three Men in a Boat
18 March – 11 June 2017 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Linda Kitson: Drawings and Projects
3 March – 30 April 2017 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Jo Brocklehurst: Nobodies and Somebodies
3 February – 14 May 2017 House of Illustration, King’s Cross
Laura Carlin: Ceramics
13 October 2016 – 5 February 2017 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Ardizzone: A Retrospective
23 September 2016 – 22 January 2017 House of Illustration, King's Cross
The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots
2 Sep 2016 – 26 Feb 2017 House of Illustration, King's Cross
The BFG in Pictures
24 June – 2 October 2016 House of Illustration, King's Cross
A New Childhood: Picture Books from Soviet Russia
27 May – 11 September 2016 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Seven Kinds of Magic
29 April – 24 August 2016 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Shojo Manga: The World of Japanese Girls' Comics
18 March – 12 June 2016 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Crossing Time
13 February – 10 March 2016 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics
5 February – 15 May 2016 House of Illustration, King's Cross
David Lemm: Mapping King's Cross
28 January – 6 March 2016 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Lauren Child's Dolls' House
16 October 2015 – 17 January 2016 House of Illustration, King's Cross
E. H. Shepard: An Illustrator's War
9 October 2015 – 24 January 2016 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Jake Green: The Bookmaker's Studio
3 September - 1 November 2015 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Ladybird by Design
9 July – 28 September 2015 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Pushing the Envelope
6 – 16 May 2015 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Hattie Stewart: Adversary
17 April – 19 July 2015 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Mac Conner: A New York Life
1 April – 28 June 2015 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Props by Paula Rego
12 November 2014 - 22 March 2015 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Paula Rego/Honoré Daumier: Scandal, Gossip and Other Stories
14 Nov 2014 – 22 March 2015 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Rachel Lillie: Odyssey
4 Nov 2014 – 11 Jan 2015 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Paddington: Illustrated and Animated
18 October 2014 – 4 January 2015 House of Illustration, King's Cross
Quentin Blake: Inside Stories
2 July – 3 Nov 2014 House of Illustration, King's Cross