Lucinda Rogers (born 1966) is an English illustrator and artist.
Biography
Rogers is widely known as an illustrator of newspaper columns, including Jonathan Meades' "A Sense of Place" in ''
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...
'', and the "Weasel" column written by Christopher Hirst,
Alexander Chancellor
Alexander Surtees Chancellor, CBE (4 January 1940 – 28 January 2017) was a British journalist.
Chancellor was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was the editor of the conservative ''Spectator'' magazine from 1975 to ...
and several others in ''
The Independent
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'' from 1993 to 2008. Rogers also drew restaurants and chefs for a column in ''
The Daily Telegraph
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It was fo ...
'' by
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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called A Matter of Taste from 1996 to 2000. From 1997 to 2001, she drew weekly for the, now defunct, broadsheet '' Sunday Business''.
Books illustrated by Rogers include ''The Dictionary of Urbanism'' by Robert Cowan, and ''Spitalfields Life'' co-illustrated with other artists. Rogers contributed one hundred drawings to a cookbook by
Rowley Leigh
Rowley Leigh (born 23 April 1950) is a British chef, restaurateur and journalist who lives in Shepherd's Bush, London.
Born in Manchester, Leigh attended Rushmoor school in Bedford before going to Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge ...
called ''No Place Like Home''. Rogers also drew the cover and illustrations for a new translation of
Histoires Naturelles
''Histoires naturelles'' ("Natural Histories") is a song cycle by Maurice Ravel, composed in 1906. It sets five poems by Jules Renard to music for voice and piano. Ravel's pupil Manuel Rosenthal created a version for voice and orchestra.
by Jules Renard published by Alma Books in 2010 (the first edition of 1896 was illustrated by
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the ...
). Rogers' work for ''
The Guardian
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'' includes main features in the Review section.
Rogers is also known for her drawings of cities, particularly London and New York, and as a "reportage" artist, drawing directly from life. She was given special access to draw a group of 33 ink on paper works, and one work in colour, at the World Trade Center site during the cleanup process at Ground Zero in the winter of 2001–2.
A series of Rogers drawings made in
Tottenham
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in 2015 entitled ''Employment Land Portfolio'' was exhibited during that year's
London Festival of Architecture
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. On a similar theme, she drew scenes of the specialist printers Baddeley Brothers for their book.
Rogers was a judge at the
University of the West of England
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The institution was know as the Bristol Polytechnic in 1970; it received university status in 1992 and ...
'Reportager Awards' in 2015, celebrating achievements in documentary drawing. During May 2016 Rogers exhibited drawings of workspaces in Tottenham and Frome at Rook Lane Chapel in Frome, Somerset. From June 7 through the summer of 2016, Rogers showed 'Restaurant Drawings Historic and Contemporary' at L'Escargot in Soho, London.
Rogers' work is represented in many public collections, including that of the
Victoria & Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...
. Her drawings of New York and London have been exhibited at the
Oxo Tower
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on London's South Bank.
In 2017 Rogers was commissioned by the House of Illustration, with support from
Arts Council England
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, to document the changing landscape of London, with a focus on
Ridley Road Market
Ridley Road Market (known locally as Ridley Road) but often referred to as "Dalston Market" is the central marketplace in Dalston in the London Borough of Hackney. It is opposite Dalston Kingsland railway station, just off the Kingsland High ...
in Dalston, East London. The exhibition ‘Lucinda Rogers: On Gentrification — Drawings from Ridley Road Market’ ran from 28 October 2017 to 25 March 2018.
An exhibition of Rogers drawings of the Snape Maltings arts centre and surrounding area of Aldeburgh, Suffolk was shown from 8 September to 23 December 2018.
In 2019, Rogers published a curated collection of her reportage drawings of New York, spanning 30 years: 'New York: Drawings 1988-2018', with foreword by
Lucy Sante
Lucy Sante (formerly Luc Sante; born May 25, 1954) is a Belgium-born American writer, critic, and artist. She is a frequent contributor to ''The New York Review of Books''. Her books include '' Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York'' (1991) ...
Lucy Sante
Lucy Sante (formerly Luc Sante; born May 25, 1954) is a Belgium-born American writer, critic, and artist. She is a frequent contributor to ''The New York Review of Books''. Her books include '' Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York'' (1991) ...
(Preface), Olivia Ahmad (Editor), Esterson Associates (Designer), West Street Press, 2019. ,
Books Illustrated by Lucinda Rogers
* Cowan, Robert, 'The Dictionary of Urbanism', Streetwise Press, 2005. ,
* Gentle Author, The, 'Spitalfields life : "in the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London"', illustrations by Mark Hearld, Lucinda Rogers and Rob Ryan, Saltyard Book Co., London, 2013.
* Leigh, Rowley, 'No place like home', illustrations by Lucinda Rogers, London, Fourth Estate, 2000.
* Renard, Jules, 'Histoires naturelles', translated by Richard Stokes, illustrations by Lucinda Rogers, Oneworld Classics, Richmond, 2010. ,
* Rogers, John, 'The Undelivered Mardle', Darton, Longman & Todd, 2013. ,
* Townsend, Anne, ompiled by 'Love and marriage', illustrated by Lucinda Rogers, Collins, London, 1989.
Book Cover Illustrations by Lucinda Rogers
* ''The Unexpected Professor'' by John Carey
* Six novels by
Angus Wilson
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, CBE (11 August 191331 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was one of England's first openly gay authors. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for ''The Middle Age of ...
published in paperback by
Penguin Books
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