Lock Down Week 1 (2020) 29.7cm x 21cm. Pencil
Lock Down Week 4 (2020) 29.7cm x 21cm. Pencil
Lock Down Week 5 (2020) 29.7cm x 21cm. Pencil
Book Drawing (Because maybe I wasn’t Mothered well? And am I Mothering well, now?) (2020) 29.7cm x 21cm. Pencil
Book Drawing (Are you listening Self?) (2020). 29.7cm x 21cm. Pencil.
Shani Reminds Me to Paint When This is Over (detail of `Pink Spots’ by Shani Rhys James) (2020) 29.7cm x 21cm. Pencil.
Sarah Lightman is an artist, writer and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She has a PhD from University of Glasgow Her first graphic novel is The Book of Sarah (Myriad Editions and Penn State UP 2019), and she is currently editing her monograph, Dressing Eve and Other Reparative Acts in Women’s Autobiographical Comics (Penn State UP). She teaches at The Royal Drawing School, London.
Loved seeing this. I think my favourite of your works are your book covers. They are portraits of the self in a really interesting way.
Thank you! I feel my book covers are like a filtered version of me, though someone else’s story…