Crayonlegs is illustrator, artist and author Sarah Lippett.

Get in touch:

Email: sarah (at) crayonlegs.com

Education:

Royal College of Art: Visual Communication MA, 2014

University of Brighton: Illustration BA (hons), 2006

Artist Books:

The Distance, Voices From Ukraine, Self Published, 2023

Thank You For a Lovely Day, Songcomic Anthology, Ventil Verlag, 2023

A Puff of Smoke, Jonathan Cape, 2019

Stan and Nan, Jonathan Cape, 2016

Living Here, Private Commission, 2015

Stan, Self Published, 2014

Poyekhali! Self Published, 2011

People I’ve worked with/for:

New York Times, The Guardian, Time Out, British Council, Novartis, Nature Medicine,

Transport For London Museum, Wichita Records, TFL, NPR, UHNM Charity, Appetite, Jonathan Cape,

Allen and Unwin, Margate Arts Creativity Heritage, Laydeez do Comics.

Residencies:

IWW Residency, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Feb- March 2019

SWAPUK/Ukraine Residency, Muzychi/Kiev, Ukraine, September 2016 – March 2017

HOME, Cliftonville, Margate, U.K, November 2014 – April 2015

Awards and Accolades:

Guardian Graphic Novel of the Year, 2019 (for A Puff Of Smoke)

Observer Graphic Novel of the Month, November, 2019 (for A Puff of Smoke)

Arts Council England Grant, 2019 (for A Puff Of Smoke Exhibition)

Arts Council England Grant, 2017 (for graphic novel A Puff of Smoke)

Observer Graphic Novel of the Month, July 2016 (for Stan and Nan)

Quentin Blake Prize for Narrative, 2013 (for Stan)

Educator:

Teaching Fellow, Illustration BA(hons) & MA, Edinburgh College of Art, 2020-Present

Lecturer, Illustration Animation BA(hons), Kingston University, 2017-2020

Lecturer, Illustration BA(hons), Northampton University 2017-2020