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Caroline Pedler
Lecturer for BA (Hons) Illustration
<p dir="ltr">Caroline is an illustrator, artist and educator with 27 years’ experience working with international clients. She has illustrated 59 children’s picturebooks, published around the world through co-editions and translated into 27 languages. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Her work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally, including the Illustrators Exhibition at Bologna Children’s Book Fair + world tours and CICLA’s Original Illustration Exhibition in China.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In 2012, Caroline founded An-ti-dote Press, an independent small press through which she publishes her own illustrated books, exploring new materials, contexts and applications for image-making. Her practice spans picturebooks, theatre and exhibition, and is grounded in drawing, analogue processes and visual narrative. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Teaching is integral to Caroline’s practice. She leads art and illustration masterclasses in Cornwall and lectures on the BA (Hons) Illustration course at Arts University Plymouth. Her teaching encourages experimentation, process-led exploration and individual creative expression, drawing on her own authorial practice and commitment to creative autonomy.<br /></p>
<p>Practice-based and practice-led research; authorial creative practice; illustration as research; process; creativity and freedom in pedagogy.</p>
<p><strong>EXHIBITIONS</strong></p>
<p>Solo Shows</p>
<p>2017 An-ti-dote - Collage 366, The attic room, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance<br />
2014 Antidote - The Picture Room, Newlyn Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall<br />
2012 Truro Arts café, Truro<br />
2012 Antidote, Salthouse Gallery, St Ives<br />
2008 Rostra Gallery, Bath<br />
2005 Rostra Gallery, Bath</p>
<p>Group and feature shows</p>
<p>2019 Sketchbooks as Therapy, for Picturebooks presentation and exhibition - Illustrating Mental Health - Worcester University<br />
2019 The Chen Bochui Original Illustrators Exhibition, world tour and permanent collection, Baoshan Folk Museum, Shanghai<br />
2018 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition - Worldwide Trends in Children's Illustration - World Tour<br />
2018 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition - Worldwide Trends in Children's Illustration, Bologna Fiere, Bologna, Italy<br />
2017 The Drawing Show, Project Space1, Arts University Plymouth, Plymouth<br />
2017 'Collage 366', The Lander Gallery, Truro<br />
2017 SKETCH2017 Black Swan Arts, Frome<br />
2017 SKETCH2017 Arts University Plymouth, Plymouth<br />
2017 SKETCH2017 Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University<br />
2017 SKETCH2017 Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough<br />
2015 Walking Into Memory, 60 Morab Rd, Penzance<br />
2014-16 Newlyn School of Art Tutors Show Newlyn Art Gallery<br />
2013 ‘Drawing the Line’ Millenium (Anima Mundi) Gallery, St Ives<br />
2013 Newlyn School of Art Tutors fundraiser Newlyn Art Gallery<br />
2013 ‘Waterlog’, The Poly Falmouth<br />
2013 ‘A Night, A day, Another night’ Bucca, Newlyn<br />
2013 ‘Painting Show’ Bucca, Newlyn<br />
2013 ‘Fiat Lux’ Limbo, Cornwall Art Biennial, Truro<br />
2012 ‘Leth’, Newlyn<br />
2012/14 Plumbline and Orchard Gallery, St Ives<br />
2012 Trelissick Gallery, Trelissick House, Truro<br />
2011 MA group show Truro Arts Café, Truro<br />
2011 MA show, Falmouth University<br />
2011 MA group show, Hung, Drawn and Authored, The Poly Falmouth<br />
2010 Trelissick Gallery, Trelissick House, Truro<br />
2010 Hi5 Art Collective pop up Gallery iii St Austell<br />
2010 Hi5 Art Collective pop up Gallery ii Truro<br />
2009 Trelissick Gallery, Trelissick House, Truro<br />
2009 Hi5 Art Collective pop up Gallery i, Truro<br />
2009 Seed Surf, Wadebridge<br />
2004 Bristol Arts Trail, Bristol<br />
2004 ‘About 10’, Awning project, Spyglass, Bristol<br />
2003 Bristol Arts Trail, Bristol<br />
2003 Caroline Pedler and Terry Frost, Rostra gallery, Bath<br />
2002 Bread and Butter Art Collective, pop up gallery, Bath Fringe Festival<br />
2001 Bread and Butter Art Collective, pop up gallery, Bath Fringe Festival<br />
2000 Bread and Butter Art Collective, pop up gallery, Bath Fringe Festival<br />
1999 Bread and Butter Collective, pop up gallery, Fringe Festival, Bath</p>
<p><strong>TEACHING</strong></p>
<p>2016-present Part Time Lecturer, pathway leader - MA Illustration, Arts University Plymouth<br />
2013-2016 Workshop tutor, Newlyn School of Art<br />
2013-present Part Time Lecturer - BA (Hons) Illustration, Arts University Plymouth<br />
2014-present Mentoring in children's book Illustration<br />
2010-2014 Mentoring with Real Ideas and Aggie Arts, Cornwall<br />
2008-2013 Guest lecturer Swindon and Arts University Plymouth<br />
1995-present Various workshops for children and adults around the country including Truro Arts Company and Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall</p>
<p><strong>RESIDENCIES</strong></p>
<p>2016 Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Gulval, Cornwall<br />
2014 MA Illustration, Authorial Practice, Falmouth, Cornwall<br />
2014 TAaP, No.5 Porthmeor Studios, St Ives School of Painting, Cornwall<br />
1994 Ecole De Beauxs Art, Caen, France</p>
<p><strong>ONLINE</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.an-ti-dotepress.co.uk">www.an-ti-dotepress.co.uk</a> / @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/collage_366/">collage_366</a> / @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/cpedlerpics/">cpedlerpics</a></p>
<p><strong>ARTICLES</strong></p>
<p>2019 Sketchbooks as Therapy, for picturebooks - Using personal stories and identity in making picturebooks - paper for Journal of Illustration 2020<br />
Artists and Illustrators Magazine<br />
My Cornwall<br />
Classic CD Magazine<br />
Cornwall Today<br />
West Briton</p>
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