Conversations at the Chapel - Clive Hicks-Jenkins

In conversation with Alastair Laurence.

Clive Hicks-Jenkins is an image maker who has enjoyed several close collaborations with poets, illustrating three books for the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and ten for the American poet and novelist Marly Youmans. In 2023 he illustrated Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf for the Folio Society, and this year for the Folio Society he has illustrated Emily Wilson’s acclaimed translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Clive was the recipient of the 2019 Owain Glyndwr Medal for his Contributions to the Arts in Wales, and in 2020 was the winner of the V&A Illustrated Book Award for Simon Armitage’s Hansel & Gretel: a Nightmare in Eight Scenes.

Clive has two exhibitions opening this Autumn. Hay Castle will be showing a retrospective of his work in the fields of illustration, and at Oriel Myrddin, Gwrach/Witch, an immersive exhibition examining more than a decade’s worth of his explorations on the theme of the fairy tale Hansel & Gretel.

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