Jade Klara did a series of illustrations for Dead Duck, the fictional children’s book in The Shining Girls. The Cape Town illustrator has an upcoming exhibition, The Witching Hour, at Salon 91 in Cape Town 16 Oct – 9 Nov, so it seemed like the perfect time to re-post these! Dead Duck is a picture book about a morbidly curious […]
To celebrate the launch of Neil Gaiman’s raucous, demented, wonderful, Fortunately, The Milk, I enlisted the aid of a raucous, demented, wonderful small assistant to raise a glass to cool kids stories everywhere and this one in particular. (Octo glass and ghosty/bat glass by Jade Klara – you can buy your own set from www.spookasem.com)
The road to success is paved with Indiana Jones death-traps. Rolling boulders of procrastination, swinging axes of bad reviews, poison blow darts of self-doubt and soul-crushing humble pies to the face. I’m thrilled that The Shining Girls is doing so well and that I’m in the incredibly privileged position to have been able to […]
Here are some great pics from Orms and Wishful Wandering. (Click to see their full galleries). Visi Magazine has put up a huge slide show gallery of all the works. Click here to see part 1 and part 2. We had art fans queuing down four flights of stairs to get in an hour before we opened the […]
Last night, The Shining Girls Charity Art Show raised R95 000 for Rape Crisis in about 20 minutes as the queue that went down four flights of stairs streamed in to snap up art. Huge thanks to Jacki Lang, brilliant and tireless curator who pulled the whole thing together, the buyers, the sponsors, (Pick ‘n’ […]
The Shining Girls Charity Art Show for Rape Crisis kicks off tonight at 5.30pm at the Cape Town School of Photography, 4th Floor 62 Roeland Street, Cape Town, with 95 works of art by 67 amazing local artists who have created original artworks on a page ripped out of my novel, selling for R1000 each. […]
The Shining Girls Charity Art Show for Rape Crisis has its opening at the Cape Town School of Photography on Friday. Curator Jacki Lang wrote a guest post for me about the experience of putting together an art show with me on a whim and a shoe-string. (And here’s some background on why I decided […]