FLAMM: An Evolving Map of Redruth – Keith Sparrow

In conversation with visitors to the Sound Installation in The Ladder, artist and illustrator Keith Sparrow will draw an Interactive Evolving Map of Redruth.

Share your favourite spaces or nick names for street corners or shops, or memories of particular streets or opes. This is a drop in activity.

Image Credit: Steve Tanner

Practicalities: The site is wheelchair accessible.

About the Artist

Keith is an artist, writer and performer living in Truro. His work in the arts in Cornwall takes him down intriguing and fascinating paths. Working with Coppice Theatre, The Story Republic, a group of writers, artists and performers who perform poems, songs and stories with a Cornish flavour. He is the illustrator of The Writers’ Block. He works as an illustrator on all kinds of projects including an exhibition of artwork on the astronomer John Couch Adams, at the Royal Cornwall Museum.

Keith Sparrow has been drawing and collecting comics since his childhood. He is a prolific storyboard artist whose work includes SpaceJam, Anime Art: Easel Does It and Drawing Action Manga: Easel Does It. A lifelong manga and anime enthusiast, Keith attends animation and comic conventions and is currently working on his own graphic novel. He uses a mixture of traditional and digital techniques in his work, drawing and inking by hand before colouring and finishing on computer. He runs manga drawing workshops and sessions to engage children and adults with graphic storytelling.