hello@irotsavala.com |
I am an author-illustrator based in London. |
I graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008. |
Alongside my image-based narrative books, I write and illustrate books for children, |
collaborate with other artists and work with illustration commissions. |
I am a lecturer on the BA & MA illustration courses at UCA Farnham. |
Awards: |
2017 Research Fund Award-UCA/ 2017 Tipperary Artists' Award for Yappo |
The Folio Society & House of Illustration Book Illustration Competition 2012 finalist/ |
MAN Group drawing Prize-RCA/ Oberon Book Illustration Awards-RCA |
Shows and events: |
Yappo Book launch & Exhibition-The Poetry Society, London/ |
Shaping the View-7th international Illustration Symposium, Edinburgh Collegre of Art/ |
All things Animal-Boston Children's Museum, MA/ |
Pages-Leeds contemporary Artist's book fair/ ELCAF-The Laundry/ |
Activating the Archive-Banner repeater&Hackney Archives/ Bristol Artists Book event/ |
ELCAF-Oval space/ Pick-Me-Up-Comms Bureau, Somerset House, London/ |
Stories on paper-New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham/ |
The Fucntion of Folk-Ethnographic Museum Krakow/ ZineFest-the Women's Library/ |
The Magic Theatre-2nd Illustration & Writing Symposium-MMU, Manchester/ |
Allotments-Swartz Gallery/ PoCom-ICA/ Edge Of Life-Bath International Music Festival/ |
We Came to Take your Jobs Away-Slovenia/Illustrating Andersen-Bologna Children's Bookfair/ |
Supertoon International animation festival, Sibenik, Croatia/ Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia |
Yappo is currently stocked in: Gosh!Comics, Foyles, Whitechapel Gallery Bookshop |