Visual Arts Illustration: Drawn to Life by Sara Gibbeson (Nexus 2022)

Drawn to Life by Sara Gibbeson. Sara, an illustrator and lecturer based in South Shields, spent weeks and months travelling on Metro sketching her fellow passengers and people at work and play in local town and city centres. She has brought together and enlarged dozens of these intimate pen and pencil line drawings to overlap each other in a dense and intriguing final work in which the viewer’s focus continually changes. Sara Gibbeson is a freelance illustrator and lecturer based in South Shields. Her work captures people, places, and everyday moments which she records in sketchbooks and uses to create lively, mixed media illustrations. One of four artists each won a unique commission to create major works for the interior of Metro’s new train fleet. Metro will be the first urban transit system in the world to feature permanent art inside trains when the new fleet enters service, thanks to a project led by Nexus and funded by Arts Council England through its National Lottery Project Grants programme. Read more about the project here. Four major new permanent artworks are unveiled for new Metro trains |