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Front Row: Quentin Blake discussion, reviews of Avatar and Magdalena Abakanowicz

15/12/2022

Quentin Blake discussion, reviews of Avatar and Magdalena Abakanowicz

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Quentin Blake discussion, reviews of Avatar and Magdalena Abakanowicz

Celebration of Quentin Blake, reviews of Avatar and Magdalena Abakanowicz.

Lauren Child and Axel Scheffler on the work of Quentin Blake, Ben Luke and Laila Latif review Avatar and Magdalena Abakanowicz.

For our Thursday review, film critic Leila Latif and art critic Ben Luke join Samira to discuss the much anticipated release of the Avatar sequel, The Way of Water and the exhibition of the late Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle Of Thread And Rope at Tate Modern in London. 

The much-loved and much-celebrated illustrator and author Sir Quentin Blake will be 90 on December 16th.   He is well known for his collaborations with Roald Dahl, Michael Rosen and many others as well as for his own stories such as Cockatoos and Mrs Armitage on Wheels.  Fellow illustrators and writers Lauren Child and Axel Scheffler join Front Row to celebrate the work and influence of this distinctive artist as plans proceed to open The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in 2024. 

Image: courtesy of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

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