Despite its gloomy topics, it is written with humour and driven by hope."Ĭlarrie also makes humorous greetings cards based on drawings from her Skyrat instagram page started during the first lockdown. As Clarrie says, it's about "lost struggles, unrequited love and irritating activists. Welcome Home tells the tale of the overlapping lives of a group of people squatting in a condemned tower block in London, and the rivalries and love triangles that form within this community. Our guest this month is Clarrie Pope, artist and co-writer, with her sister Blanche, of Welcome Home, which was shortlisted for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition in 2018 and published by Minor Compositions. One of these, entitled "Lost Generation," won the Political Cartoons Award for "Covid cartoon of the year" in 2021.Ĭheck back soon for details on joining via zoom. Henny will be talking about how this exhibition builds on both her graphic novel work and her satirical illustrations that have been commissioned by The Guardian. The exhibition is open until Sunday 30 October. Invisible People is the outcome of Henny’s work as artist in residence with the British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) and Respond UK, which help the health and social care sector’s understanding of trauma experienced by people with learning disabilities and by those on the autistic spectrum. Henny has recently curated an exhibition at Worthing Museum - Invisible People - which mixes her own artwork with work created by people with learning difficulties and neurodiversity, supported by the charities Rocket Artists and Superstar Arts. This month's guest is Henny Beaumont, author of the graphic novel Hole in the Heart (Myriad Editions, 2016) a memoir about bringing up her daughter with Down's Syndrome.