Collective Nouns Illustrated
Back in March we teamed up with the Owl and Lion gallery and the West Port Book Festival, challenging you to illustrate your choice of collective noun from the All-Sorts.org index. We were thrilled with the response. Artists and illustrators from all round the world expressed their interest. The high quality of submissions meant that it was a tough job for our judges. You can see the winning entries below.
The winning entries have been screen printed by Isabelle Ting, and will be on display at the Owl & Lion Gallery from 15-27th June, 2010. You can purchase an artists’ book featuring all 15 illustrations as well as individual prints at A4 size.
If you’d like to know more about collective nouns, check out Drew Neil’s Pecha Kucha talk on the subject.
- Mina Braun: a round of robins
- Jez Burrows: a hush of librarians
- Emily Chappell: a stereoscopy of cyclopses
- Chris Dobson: an orchard of macs
- Gary Mackean: a hanging of bats
- Emily MacKenzie: a pandemonium of pandas
- Kate McLelland: a maze of sparrows
- Simon Madine: a fish of surrealists
- Parko Polo: a seemingly empty room of ninjas
- Matt Stockl: an unstable of imaginary horses
- Dave Sutton: a sofa of dogs
- Isabelle Ting: an athena of owls
- Bill Walsh: half a glassful of optimists
- Rachel Wilson: a tangle of octopuses
- Andrew Wright: a tinkle of euphemisms
