Graham Rawle
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Graham Rawle is a UK writer and collage artist whose visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography and installation. His weekly Lost Consonants series appeared in the Weekend Guardian for 15 years. He has produced other regular series which include ‘Lying Doggo’ and ‘Graham Rawle’s Wonder Quiz’ for The Observer and ‘When Words Collide’ and ‘Pardon Mrs Arden’ for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine.
He has lectured and exhibited his work both in the UK and abroad, heading the design team that created the 4,000 sq ft 'Hi-Life' supermarket installation for EXPO 2000 in Hanover. As director of the Niff Institute, in 2001 he created a range of limited edition art pieces that form the Niff Actuals product range.
Among his published books are The Wonder Book of Fun, Lying Doggo, and Diary of an Amateur Photographer. His critically acclaimed Woman's World, a novel created entirely from fragments of found text, has been optioned for a feature film. He is currently working on an illustrated book of The Wizard of Oz, creating and photographing sets and characters as 1:6 scale 3-D models to be published by Atlantic Books in October 2008.
Graham Rawle is a lecturer on the Sequential Design and Illustration MA at The University of Brighton. He lives in London.
