Excited to announce - albiet a few months late - my new weekly illustration for The Guardian Saturday Magazine. My Cultural Awakening is a weekly column where writers and Guardian readers reveal how popular culture prompted them to make a dramatic life change. See them all here.
My Cultural Awakening
The World's 50 Best Restaurants
New work for the World Best 50 Restaraunts. North America edition. Hopefully one day I’ll have dinner in one.
JAMES MORRISON - FIGHT ANOTHER DAY
New Artwork for @jamesmorrisonok ‘s new album - Fight Another Day.
It was great to working with old friends at @studiofury again and get a steer from James himself on collage elements.He’s wanted to create an illustrated cover for a long time so i’m honoured he chose me.
I worked the collage around a fantastic original shot by @tomoxleyphoto
Released today on a whole heap of formats including some stunning marbled vinyl >
#jamesmorrison #fightanotherday
#lpart #collageart #lpcover #cutitoutstudio
MAYO CLINIC
I had the pleasure of working for McGuffin in Chicago creating a series of collages reimagining anatomy. I spliced original anatomical drawings from the 1920’s with imagery representing todays visionary evolution at the Mayo Clinic exploring human anatomy.
‘We have broken away from tradition - both in how we approach education and how we expand out understanding of anatomy’
Client @mayoclinic
Creative Team @mcguffincg
Original cadaver drawings circ. 1920 E.Fry
How they understand and teach anatomy now is truely mind blowing ~ the full feature and magazine pdf is available at mayo alumni education here.
#mayoclinic #medicalillustration #anatomy
#cutitoutstudio
Orology
this month…
OASIS LIVE '25
New work by Griff & I for the big rock n rollers reunion. We created a 5 minute video for Noel’s seminal solo ‘Little By Little’. Watch this space for video clips in the wild as the tour moves to Manchester next week, and then into London, Ireland and around the world.... Special thankyou to Chris Curtis for the invite to collaborate on this project.
NANCY DREW
Griff and I are stoked to reveal we’ve been working on initial animations for a very cool documentary in production right now.
Nancy Drew, The Case of the American Icon.
A full-length documentary exploring the history and cultural impact of literature’s OG girl sleuth - Nancy Drew
For this initial stage of the project Griff and I were commissioned to create a series of developmental in show sequences and an intro animation.
Director Cathleen O’Connell has amassed the most amazing archive of book jackets, artworks, ink drawings and Drew related ephemera. Delving into the wealth of material quickly started to throw up a plethora of ideas to implement into these initial animations.
Our aim is to reflect the original aesthetic of the books and the Nancy Drew DNA whilst putting it through our contemporary collage lens and giving it a fresh spin.
Due to unforeseen events in the US part of the funding for this project was withdrawn so the team have launched a cool Kickstarter campaign here to get it over the line. One month to go!
I’ll keep you posted on all things Nancy as they develop, including some sneak peeks into our collage process.. but for now behold the intro taster…
Early Accolades
Mine and GRIFFS work on the yet to be released THAW documentary has been awarded some laurels for graphics by @accoladecompetition which is all rather lovely.
The Accolade Global Film Competition
Season: June 2025
Robin Hauser (USA), Thaw
Award of Excellence Special Mention: Documentary Feature
In addition to Award of Excellence Special Mention, you have also received the following awards:
Award of Excellence: Contemporary Issues / Awareness Raising
Award of Excellence: Women Theme
Award of Excellence: Animation
THAW
Very excited to announce Griff and I’s latest animation collaboration with Robin Hauser and the talented team at Finish Line Features.
THAW - PARENTHOOD ON ICE
Egg freezing is now a global phenomenon, used by women all over the world. But its outcomes can’t be known until years later, when the eggs are thawed and fertilized. THAW follows three American women navigating difficult choices about their biological clocks, and questioning what “choice” actually means in this new era of eggs on ice.
Griff and I created over 12 sequences for the documentary with topics ranging from ancient biology and fertility to the social sciences and egg freezing.
THAW is currently doing the rounds on the US Festival circuit.
Below is a series of stills. More soon.
Their plans measured in centuries
The Showman
Tim Minchin for British Airways Highlife Magazine
Our Narrative Prison
Our narrative prison
The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
My Cultural Awakening
Very proud to announce a new weekly illustration for the Guardian UK working with the excellent Sara Ramsbottom. Here is the inaugral illustration. “ My cultural awakening: Sex and the City made me leave my loveless marriage “ Watch this space..
THE GUARDIAN Eccentric, blunt-speaking characters who present as being on the spectrum are everywhere on our screens – but why are their creators so reluctant to state it openly? By Pierre Novellie
Observer Food Monthly
Very much inspired by Paris Rosina’s sumptuous supperclubs I created this month’s cover for Observer Food Monthly @obsfood & have cooked two dishes from this brief already.!
Peregrinations
READ, DRINK & BE MERRY
An absolute pleasure working with the legendary Sara Ramsbottom at The Guardian creating the cover along with three section illustrations and a series of page decrations for this years ‘Best of Season Books Special’. You can never have enough books, old or new.
X Feliz Navidad X
Yugavani
Kafkas Trial - An ever morphing collage of Franz Kafka which I’ve been reappropriating for various Kafka events, journals and readings around the world. Here, for the Marathi language literary journal ‘Yugavani’ published from Nagpur, India. The journal is circulated among Marathi literature lovers and is published this week. A wonderful collaboration with the most inspiring poet Prafull Shiledar.
THE ROLLING STONES X CUT IT OUT
We went over to the US to catch The Stones on the last leg of their Hackney Diamonds tour at Chicago’s Soldier Stadium. It was breathtaking to see my tour visual collages for Honky Tonk Women super stadium sized! With Treatment Studios & Woodroffe Bassett ‘s sensitive animation and beautiful neon tweak the whole four minutes packed a serious punch in the evenings stunning set list. The whole performance and stage show was stunning. Mick, Ronnie and Keith perfoming inside my work to 70,000 fans will be something to remember forever.. The tours last show is this weekend in California.