Lucinda Rogers

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Lucinda Rogers (born 1966) [1] is an English illustrator and artist. [2] [3] [4]

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Biography

Rogers is widely known as an illustrator of newspaper columns, including Jonathan Meades' "A Sense of Place" in The Times , and the "Weasel" column written by Christopher Hirst, Alexander Chancellor and several others in The Independent from 1993 to 2008. [5] Rogers also drew restaurants and chefs for a column in The Daily Telegraph by Andrew Lloyd Webber called A Matter of Taste from 1996 to 2000. From 1997 to 2001, she drew weekly for the, now defunct, broadsheet Sunday Business .

Books illustrated by Rogers include The Dictionary of Urbanism by Robert Cowan, and Spitalfields Life co-illustrated with other artists. Rogers contributed one hundred drawings to a cookbook by Rowley Leigh called No Place Like Home. [6] Rogers also drew the cover and illustrations for a new translation of Histoires Naturelles by Jules Renard published by Alma Books in 2010 (the first edition of 1896 was illustrated by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec). Rogers' work for The Guardian includes main features in the Review section. [7]

Rogers is also known for her drawings of cities, particularly London and New York, and as a "reportage" artist, drawing directly from life. She was given special access to draw a group of 33 ink on paper works, and one work in colour, at the World Trade Center site during the cleanup process at Ground Zero in the winter of 2001–2. [8] [9]

A series of Rogers drawings made in Tottenham in 2015 entitled Employment Land Portfolio was exhibited during that year's London Festival of Architecture. [10] On a similar theme, she drew scenes of the specialist printers Baddeley Brothers for their book. [11]

Rogers was a judge at the University of the West of England 'Reportager Awards' in 2015, celebrating achievements in documentary drawing. [12] During May 2016 Rogers exhibited drawings of workspaces in Tottenham and Frome at Rook Lane Chapel in Frome, Somerset. [13] [14] From June 7 through the summer of 2016, Rogers showed 'Restaurant Drawings Historic and Contemporary' at L'Escargot in Soho, London. [15]

Rogers' work is represented in many public collections, including that of the Victoria & Albert Museum. [16] Her drawings of New York and London have been exhibited at the Oxo Tower on London's South Bank. [17]

In 2017 Rogers was commissioned by the House of Illustration, with support from Arts Council England, to document the changing landscape of London, with a focus on Ridley Road Market in Dalston, East London. The exhibition ‘Lucinda Rogers: On Gentrification — Drawings from Ridley Road Market’ ran from 28 October 2017 to 25 March 2018. [18] [19]

An exhibition of Rogers drawings of the Snape Maltings arts centre and surrounding area of Aldeburgh, Suffolk was shown from 8 September to 23 December 2018. [20]

In 2019, Rogers published a curated collection of her reportage drawings of New York, spanning 30 years: 'New York: Drawings 1988-2018', with foreword by Lucy Sante. [21] [22]

Bibliography

Books by Lucinda Rogers

Books Illustrated by Lucinda Rogers [23]

Book Cover Illustrations by Lucinda Rogers

Other work

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