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Caroline Pedler
Caroline is an Illustrator, artist and educator. She has exhibited and curated numerous shows around the UK and more recently been part of illustration exhibitions in Bologna, Italy and Shanghai, China.
She has illustrated over 50 children's picture books and worked with a variety of International clients over the past 20 years. Being a predominantly co-edition iIllustrator, her books are in 27 different languages and sell all over the world. Her clients include Little Tiger Press, Barnes & Noble, Hallmark, Sony, Tescos, Walmart, Scholastic, Parragon, Marks and Spencers, Readers Digest and Matalan.
She completed an MA in Authorial Practice / Illustration at Falmouth University in 2011 and shortly after founded her own small press An-Ti-Dote Press where she publishes her own artist / picture books.
She runs various Masterclasses in art and Illustration around the county and currently works as a lecturer on BA Illustration and leads the MA Illustration pathway at Arts University Plymouth.
Practice based & led research / philosophies of art / creativity and freedom in pedagogy / Illustration as research / creative practice
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Shows
2017 An-ti-dote - Collage 366, The attic room, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance
2014 Antidote - The Picture Room, Newlyn Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
2012 Truro Arts café, Truro
2012 Antidote, Salthouse Gallery, St Ives
2008 Rostra Gallery, Bath
2005 Rostra Gallery, Bath
Group and feature shows
2019 Sketchbooks as Therapy, for Picturebooks presentation and exhibition - Illustrating Mental Health - Worcester University
2019 The Chen Bochui Original Illustrators Exhibition, world tour and permanent collection, Baoshan Folk Museum, Shanghai
2018 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition - Worldwide Trends in Children's Illustration - World Tour
2018 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition - Worldwide Trends in Children's Illustration, Bologna Fiere, Bologna, Italy
2017 The Drawing Show, Project Space1, Arts University Plymouth, Plymouth
2017 'Collage 366', The Lander Gallery, Truro
2017 SKETCH2017 Black Swan Arts, Frome
2017 SKETCH2017 Arts University Plymouth, Plymouth
2017 SKETCH2017 Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
2017 SKETCH2017 Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough
2015 Walking Into Memory, 60 Morab Rd, Penzance
2014-16 Newlyn School of Art Tutors Show Newlyn Art Gallery
2013 ‘Drawing the Line’ Millenium (Anima Mundi) Gallery, St Ives
2013 Newlyn School of Art Tutors fundraiser Newlyn Art Gallery
2013 ‘Waterlog’, The Poly Falmouth
2013 ‘A Night, A day, Another night’ Bucca, Newlyn
2013 ‘Painting Show’ Bucca, Newlyn
2013 ‘Fiat Lux’ Limbo, Cornwall Art Biennial, Truro
2012 ‘Leth’, Newlyn
2012/14 Plumbline and Orchard Gallery, St Ives
2012 Trelissick Gallery, Trelissick House, Truro
2011 MA group show Truro Arts Café, Truro
2011 MA show, Falmouth University
2011 MA group show, Hung, Drawn and Authored, The Poly Falmouth
2010 Trelissick Gallery, Trelissick House, Truro
2010 Hi5 Art Collective pop up Gallery iii St Austell
2010 Hi5 Art Collective pop up Gallery ii Truro
2009 Trelissick Gallery, Trelissick House, Truro
2009 Hi5 Art Collective pop up Gallery i, Truro
2009 Seed Surf, Wadebridge
2004 Bristol Arts Trail, Bristol
2004 ‘About 10’, Awning project, Spyglass, Bristol
2003 Bristol Arts Trail, Bristol
2003 Caroline Pedler and Terry Frost, Rostra gallery, Bath
2002 Bread and Butter Art Collective, pop up gallery, Bath Fringe Festival
2001 Bread and Butter Art Collective, pop up gallery, Bath Fringe Festival
2000 Bread and Butter Art Collective, pop up gallery, Bath Fringe Festival
1999 Bread and Butter Collective, pop up gallery, Fringe Festival, Bath
TEACHING
2016-present Part Time Lecturer, pathway leader - MA Illustration, Arts University Plymouth
2013-2016 Workshop tutor, Newlyn School of Art
2013-present Part Time Lecturer - BA (Hons) Illustration, Arts University Plymouth
2014-present Mentoring in children's book Illustration
2010-2014 Mentoring with Real Ideas and Aggie Arts, Cornwall
2008-2013 Guest lecturer Swindon and Arts University Plymouth
1995-present Various workshops for children and adults around the country including Truro Arts Company and Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall
RESIDENCIES
2016 Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Gulval, Cornwall
2014 MA Illustration, Authorial Practice, Falmouth, Cornwall
2014 TAaP, No.5 Porthmeor Studios, St Ives School of Painting, Cornwall
1994 Ecole De Beauxs Art, Caen, France
ONLINE
www.an-ti-dotepress.co.uk / @collage_366 / @cpedlerpics
ARTICLES
2019 Sketchbooks as Therapy, for picturebooks - Using personal stories and identity in making picturebooks - paper for Journal of Illustration 2020
Artists and Illustrators Magazine
My Cornwall
Classic CD Magazine
Cornwall Today
West Briton