Education
MA (RCA) - Royal College of Art (Fine Art/Printmaking), 1996 Education
BA (Hons) - Central St. Martins (Illustration), 1992
Selected exhibitions
The Sesame Salon 2007, 2008, London
Bridge Art Fair, London 2007
AAF London, 2004 - 2008
AAF New York, USA, 2005
Whitechapel Open, The Tannery, London, 1998
71:40, Group show, Milch Gallery, London, 1997
The spirit of the staircase, V&A, London, 1996
Last minute creations, Parkhaus Gallerie, Berlin, 1996
Front Art, Group show, Berlin, 1996
Euphorium Restaurant, Mural Commission, London, 1996
RCA centenary show, Royal Festival Hall, London, 1996
Four visions, Group show, SNAP, London, 1996
New Designers, Business Design Centre, London, 1992
Newcomer of the year, Creative Handbook, 1992
Elle Talent contest, Finalist, 1991
Pan MacMillan Children's book Competition, Finalist, 1991
Awards
Daler Rowney Award, 1996
Artist in residence, Cite International des Arts, Paris, 1995
Publications
2010 - Big Noisy Book of Animals, Boxer Books
2009 - Big Noisy Book of Jobs, Boxer Books
2009 - Big Noisy Book of Dinosaurs, Boxer Books
2008 - Big Noisy Book of Vehicles, Boxer Books
2008 - A happy home, Boxer Books
2008 - A black cat, Boxer Books
US Children's Book of the Month Club
2008 - A red train, Boxer Books
2008 - A starfish, Boxer Books
US Children's Book of the Month Club
2008 - Grumpy cat, Boxer Books
(Chosen book for Bookstart UK)
2007 - How big is the world, Boxer Books
2007 - Big Smelly Bear, Boxer Books
Texas 2X2 Reading List 2008
2004 - Ten steps to bed time, Walker Books
2004 - Flabby Tabby, Penny McKinlay, Frances Lincoln
2003 - Bumposaurus, Penny McKinlay, Frances Lincoln,
read on Cbeebies by Graham Norton & John Barrowman
Recommended Read for World Book Day 2005
2001 - Teletubbies Animal Parade, BBC/Ragdoll
2001 - Baby's like me, Malachy Doyle, Frances Lincoln /Penguin
2000 - Plumpudding, Margarete Mayo, Orchard Books
1999 - Well a crocodile can, Malachy Doyle,
Frances Lincoln/Simon&Schuster
White Ravens Award 2000
1997 - Rumble in the jungle, ABC/Viking,
Publishers Weekly - starred review
1996 - Kancil and the crocodiles, ABC/Simon&Schuster
1995 - Elephants never forget, ABC/Freeman
1994 - Coyote makes man, James Sage, ABC/Simon&Schuster,
New York Times starred review
Based in Berlin, Britta is an internationally renowned illustrator. Her pictures draw strongly on folklore, the forest and tales of the Brothers Grimm, creating a playful, haunting feel that is childlike and unnerving in equal measures.
Already well-established as a leading children's book illustrator, Britta's fine artwork (exhibited at Sesame) retains a childlike simplicity and purity but with distinctly dark undertones. Her monoprints are unusual in every sense. Technically, the process of printing and then hand-finishing the prints on paper, then varnishing them onto canvas, makes them unusual - the process of cut-and-paste layering begins with the materials. In her images she likewise takes a patchwork approach, with different motifs repeating in sequential combinations: hand-drawn portraits of herself as a child, of her mother or her son; the sinister pair of boys lurking in the distance; the imaginary animal friends that leap in and out of the images - all meet each other time and time again in sparse, dream-like landscapes that play host to Britta's imaginary memory wonderland.
As such, Britta's monoprints form part of an extensive landscape composed of both dreams and memories, where snapshots from the artist's childhood mingle with imaginary characters and her own experiences of childhood from an adult, parental pespecive. Intimate, fun, dark, and deceptively playful, Britta's works are all about the childhood we often barely remember, but then never really leave behind.
