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Robert Shadbolt graduated from the RCA in 1984. Since then he has 
sustained a diverse and varied career working for clients in 
editorial, advertising, design, the web, publishing, textiles and 
ceramics. Over the past ten years the computer has added to range of 
materials he can use in that he is able to draw together the many 
strands of his work combining painting, drawing and photography and 
his archive of found material.. He also runs the Illustration degree 
course at Norwich School of Art and Design. Here he is able to 
explore with the students the potential of illustration and drawing 
in the world today; a recent project examining the way we draw the 
human head produced almost 6000 images, you can see some of the 
results on his flickr stream. His work still predominantly relies on 
drawing which means he's on a constant search for the perfect drawing 
implement. He used to buy pens and get advice from Philip Pool
(1909-1999) the legendary pen expert of Drury Lane, London. Time is 
now spent trawling eBay looking for nibs and pens like Sommerville's 
Alfred and the Pelican Graphos. He currently works on a project which 
explores the Fornasetti Themes and Variations as inspiration. 
Replacing the face of Lina Cavalieri with the face he draws on an 
reoccurring basis, the smiling contented face with eyes closed; which 
probably derives more from illustrators like Savignac, Paul Rand and 
Saul Bass, although the more he looks the more he sees the face almost everywhere.

BIOGRAPHY

Current Post
Norwich School of Art and Design Subject Leader Illustration

Education
1996-97
Southwark College BTEC Multi Media - distinction
1981-84
Royal College of Art MA Illustration
1978-81
Maidstone College of Art BA (Hons) Graphic Design - first
1977-78
Maidstone College of Art Foundation in Art & Design

Teaching Experience
2000-06
Middlesex University BA (Hons)VC- Senior Lecturer
1998-00
Middlesex University BA (Hons) Illustration - Visiting Lecturer
1999-00
Camberwell College of Art Short course leader-
Introduction to Digital Media
Introduction to Illustration
Introduction to Graphic Design
1988-90
Central St Martins BA (Hons) Illustration - Visiting Lecturer
1988-90
Central St Martins PG Dip Illustration - Visiting Lecturer

Illustration Practice
My primary area of activity is editorial. I am quite often involved with the development of new publications, for example Red magazine, Management Today and ES magazine, for which I drew the first illustrated cover. Currently I have a regular spot in the weekend section of The Daily Telegraph. In the area of design my biggest success was imagery for a carrier bag for Bloomingdales which won The Art Directors Club 68th Annual Merit Award and a Communication Art Magazine Award of Excellence. In advertising, I have worked on a number of major campaigns in this country and in Germany, Australia, Singapore, Sweden, and Hong Kong; the most recent of which was a campaign for South African Airlines. In publishing I illustrated most of the covers to Hodder & Stoughton?s Teach Yourself Language Books, and 2005 saw the publication of the lavishly illustrated Wedding Survival Guide.

Illustration clients:
Editorial
The Sunday Times, The Saturday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Management Today,
The Guardian, The New Yorker, Readers Digest, Vogue, BBC Gardener's World, You Magazine, Red, Glamour, Elle, Just Seventeen, The Radio Times, Tatler, Men?s Health, Madam Figaro, ES Magazine.

Design
Pentagram, Wolff Olin?s, Coley Porter Bell, CDT, RSA, Bloomingdales, Harrods, Boots, Whittards,
Tricket and Webb.

Advertising
McCann Erickson, South African Airlines, The COI, Abbott Mead Vickers, TBWA, BMP.

Publishing
Harper Collins, Faber & Faber, Penguin Books, Hodder & Stoughton.

Books
The Sword In the Stone
T.H. White Collins, 1998 illustrated by Robert Shadbolt
The Wedding Survival Guide
New Holland Pub Ltd illustrated by Robert Shadbolt

2007

Do a Good Turn
Advertorial Brochure with The Sunday Times and Arial
to promote energy efficiency

Regular contributions to

The Daily Telegraph Weekend Section
and Ultra Travel

The Guardian

HR Magazine Haymarket Publishing
World Business Haymarket Publishing

Currently working on two projects which Chronicle Books San Francisco

A Children's Atlas Printed in 3D

Grow Crazy
A series of books about different types of plant which comes with real seeds to actually grow the plant.

Membership of The Drawing Research Network http://www.drawing.org.uk/