Curriculum Vitae

Education
Royal College of Art, 1994 - 1996
MA Illustration

Norwich School of Art, 1991 - 1994
BA (Hons) Graphic Design/First Class

Freelance Illustrator 1996 onwards
Member of the Association of Illustrators.

Lecturing - Illustration
University of Hertfordshire, 2003 - 2004
Loughborough University, 1999 - 2003

Visiting Lecturer
Norwich School of Art, Oct 2015
The Fry Gallery, Saffron Walden, June 2015
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 2004
Middlesex University, 2003
Norwich School of Art, 2000 - 2002

Shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Awards. 2013
Merit Award. 3x3 Pro Illustration Annual. 2013

Exhibitions
RA SUMMER SHOW 2022

NFTNYC, June 2022

RA WINTER SHOIW, 2020

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR BATTERSEA 17/18/19/21

Fry Annual Sale, Nov 2016

Brussels, Stockholm AAF Oct 2016

A Modern Sensibility. The Fry Art Gallery, April 2016 
Brussels AAF, Feb 2016
London Art Fair, Jan 2016
Beecroft Art Gallery, Solo show Oct 2015
Battersea AAF Oct 2015
Stockholm AAF Oct 2015
Saatchi Gallery. 50 x 50 March 2015
Brussels AAF Feb 2015

Jealous Needs You/London Feb 2015
London Art Fair Jan 2015
Collectors show, Aldeburgh June 2014
Affordable Art Fair June 2014
International Art Fair May 2014
Cambridge Art Fair Nov 2013
Battersea AAF Oct 2013
Hello beautiful - Gallery Six Oct 2013
Assembling, Quercus Gallery Sept 2013
State of Bewilderment, Church St Gallery Aug 2013
Summer Show, Hayletts Gallery Aug 2013
Introducing, Quercus Gallery June 2013
Leigh Art Trail - Guest Artist June 2013
International Art Fair, RCA May 2013
Pick Me Up, Somerset House. May 2013
Break A Lens, Bristol Mar 2013
Battersea AAF Oct 2012
Manchester Art Fair Sept 2012
ICONS, The Store Street Gallery July 2012
Home & Abroad, The Aldeburgh Gallery June 2012
Jubilee Show, GGGallery, London June 2012
Affordable Art Fair, Bristol. May 2012
Secret 7s, Idea Generation Gallery April 2012
International Art Fair Feb 2012
Microcosm, HONG KONG! Nov 2011
Collectionistas, London. Nov 2011
Artistic.ly, London., Nov 2011
Autumn Collectors Show, Aldeburgh Oct 2011
AAF Hampstead , Oct 2011
Palace Art Fair , Oct 2011
Jealous Prints in at Kulturspeicher Muensterland, Germany Sept 2011
Jealous Gallery, London. April 2011

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, London. March 2011
INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, Feb 2011
Darryl Nantais Gallery, Feb 2011
LONDON ART FAIR, JAN 2011
Stark Gallery, Oct 2010
ANTI DESIGN FESTIVAL, Sept 2010
Hayletts Gallery, July 2010
Church St Gallery, April 2010 - ongoing
i2Art Gallery, February 2010
The Fry Art Gallery, Nov 2009
8 Bells - Joint exhibition, Feb 2009
Images 26 - 32, 2002 - 08
The Fry Art Gallery, Nov 2008
Aldeburgh Gallery, June 2008
Twenty Years of Design Week, 2006
The Fry Art Gallery, Nov 2001
Cadogan Contemporary, London, Jul 1999
Tricycle Gallery, London, Nov 1998
Ozten Zeki Gallery, London, Aug 1998
Atlantis Gallery, London, Apr 1998
Candid Gallery, London, Dec 1997
James West Fine Art, Dublin, Oct 1997
Tom Blau Gallery, London, Sep 1997
Tom Blau Gallery, London, May 1997
James West Fine Art, London, May 1996
Art International, Paris, Nov 1996
Springpoint Ltd, London, May 1996
The Railings Gallery, London, April 1996
The Hockney Gallery, London, Feb 1996
Gulbenkian Gallery RCA, London, Mar 1995

Press/Books
How to Create a Portfolio & Get Hired, 2010

Text and Image, 2007
The Picture Book, 2006
Thinking Visually, 2006
01 14N 103 55E, Singapore, 2005
Graphic Poetry, 2005
Re:Think Design Construct, 2004
Hand and Eye, 2003
Digital Exposure, 2002
A Digital Dolly?, 2000

Press/Magazines
http://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blog/2013/08/michelle-thompson-cutting-a-dash.html
UPPERCASE magazine, June 2013
TEMP magazine, May 2013
DPI magazine, 2013
Computer Arts, Sept 2012
Cambridge Edition, July 2012
Computer Arts, April 2011
Ape on the Moon, April 2011
Vogue Taiwan, 2008
DPI magazine Taiwan, April 2008
Creative Review, April 2005
Computer Arts, April 2005
The Journal - AOI, Aug 2002
The Journal - AOI, June 2002
Communication Arts, May 2002
Creative Review, Oct 2000
Eye Magazine, May 2000
Graphics International, June 1997

Clients have included
Vaughan Oliver/Aspesi, Royal Mail, The Boston Globe, CDT, The Independent, The Guardian, New Scientist, Penguin Books,

TXU/Eastern Energy, 4AD, The Radio Times, The Times, Marks & Spencer, BBC World Service, Barclays, The Financial Times,
The Telegraph, The Boston Globe, The Globe & Mail, World of Interiors, ELLE, Asda, Business Week, Design Week, V2,
The LA Times, Harvard Law magazine, Radio Times, Waitrose Food Illustrated, Economist, City Hall, Museum of London,

British Airways Magazine, Runners Weekly.