Linda Toigo, Medieval and Modern History, 2013 (detail)

Here you  have my latest work, a History school book once belonging to a pupil named Jack Hroswith, that I altered using matches, a glass surface, and the pressure of my fingers – Fire being at the same time an element of destruction and creation. In an iconic scene from Truffaut’s adaptation of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit […]

Linda Toigo, Snow White, 2012

My cut out books Circus and Snow White (from the Furry Tales series) will be exhibited at El llibre il·lustrat en femení (Biblioteca Sagrada Familia, Barcelona) together with works of other 28 International women illustrators. The online catalogue is available here. The exhibition has been organised by Julia Pelletier, Spanish artist, printmaker and curator that […]

linda toigo, ballroom dancing, 2012

A. S. loves flowers; not just because he is a sophisticated gentleman, but also because plants are his life. He creates beautiful gardens on rooftop terraces, back yards or by some Chinese waterfront managing species and seasons in the same way a painter would plan his color palette. There was no surprise then, when he […]

Coppo di Marcovaldo: Last Judgment (Hell)

Is it possible to create some sort of connection between book art and the digital media? I have been asking myself and sharing my thoughts about this issue for some time now. I have then decided to indulge in some experimentation, and here is the result of one of them: a combination of book alteration […]

hbl postcard

For the past months I have been working on the design of illustrations, animation and book art for a new theatre production that has been performed at The Space, in East London, for the first two weeks of August. Some pictures of rehearsal sessions, general information and news can be found on our blog, here. […]

A found image repeated on different levels creates a cave-like surreal environment

Last Thursday I had the privilege to teach at the London branch of an International project based on the exchange of knowledge, called Trade School. “Trade School is an alternative learning space that runs on barter. Anyone can teach a class, and students can sign up for classes by agreeing to bring barter items that […]

linda toigo, living for less, 2012

A play staged in the aisle of a supermarket, opera singers playing the role of TV-drama characters, and unaware Tesco customers becoming active part of the performance: this is what happens in one of the nine episode of a project produced by Welsh National Opera, Nine Stories High, that I recently had the chance to […]

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