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“Illustrating is like directing a play, except that you also get to design the scenery and play all the parts.

I can’t wait for the curtain to go up on the new exhibition.”

– Quentin Blake

When we open in Clerkenwell, London, our three galleries in a former waterworks will showcase the breadth and dynamism of illustration through regularly changing exhibitions.

Visitors can explore our free spaces, including public gardens, displays and an illustration library. A café serving fresh food in historic surroundings will also be on offer as well as a shop stocked with unique illustration gifts.

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Aubergine

Photograph of a pole topped by a brass plaque and a wooden carving of a man wearing a mole costume

New River Folk

A fictional museum of working-class water culture by Laura Copsey and Philip Crewe

Jo Brocklehurst

Documentary drawing of the punks, fetishists, actors, dancers and club-goers of Berlin, London and New York.
Two people looking at a text panel outside

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Pink

School pupil looking at a printout of a woman showing her bicep and the words 'we can do it'

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Sage

School pupil looking at a printout of a woman showing her bicep and the words 'we can do it'

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Beige

School pupil looking at a printout of a woman showing her bicep and the words 'we can do it'