Graham Carter
Cover for Issue 282
London
Issue 282 August 4, 2009
Graham Carter has spent the last 10 years working as a freelance illustrator and is considered one of the industry leaders after a string of successful campaigns with Bupa, Orange, Waterstones, Monster.co.uk, and editorial illustrations for the Guardian and the Sunday Times. Graham is one of the founding members of the celebrated illustration collective Peepshow, with whom he has worked on a variety of projects including the award winning Expo 2000 with Lost Consonants creator Graham Rawle, and has exhibited in collective exhibitions throughout the UK.

Over the last four years, Graham has moved on from his editorial illustration style to create a unique collection of limited-edition prints. Since first exhibiting at the Brighton Art Fair in 2006, Graham has become one of the most collected printmakers in the UK. Graham has now held two solo exhibitions with Ink-d Gallery, Brighton, which have both opened to critical acclaim, and exhibits in galleries across the UK, including his own Boxbird Gallery, Soma, Richard Goodall Gallery, Rostra & Rooksmoor, and Design Supremo.

In 2007, Graham co-founded the award-winning Show Below, an annual exhibition for the Brighton Fringe Festival, showcasing some of the UK's most exciting illustrators, printmakers, and photographers. In 2007, Graham was awarded the Brighton Fringe Festival Visual Arts prize for Serendipity, and in 2008 Show Below won second best show in the entire festival.

Last year Graham and his partner Alice launched Boxbird Gallery & Studios, which currently represents 18 illustrators and printmakers. This has quickly become one of the premier contemporary print galleries in the UK and in May 2009 launched the award winning CinemaScope exhibition. Boxbird is also a working studio with Graham's own full screen-printing facilities on site where you can often watch him creating new works.

Graham currently lives and works in Brighton with future wife Alice and a naughty ginger kitten called Mr. Bojangles. His next solo show will be at the Conningsby Gallery, London, from 30th August to 12th September 2009.

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