This was the theme of an illustration conference I attended on Thursday and, to be honest, it took me a while to work out what was meant by it. Perhaps a more straight-forward term might be ‘artistic integrity’, because the conference revolved around the extent to which illustrators, whose work is by definition commissioned and art-directed by a client, can maintain their own ‘voice’ within the work they produce and to what extent we need to sustain private, non-commissioned work, to keep sight of who we are as creatives. There were two illustrators speaking: Simon Spilsbury , whose work you will remember from the recent Cobra ads, and Andrew Foster , who caused some controversy with his commission to paint the windows at Liberty (top image).
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Authorial Practice