Angela Barrett: Artist and Illustrator

Celebrated artist Angela Barrett, known for her poetic illustrations of Snow White and The Diary of Anne Frank, discusses her practice and inspiration with Foundling Museum Curator Nicola Freeman. Her depiction of Snow White’s mother is on display in Drawing on Childhood, an exhibition of major illustrators from the eighteenth century to the present day, who have created powerful images of characters in fiction who are orphaned, adopted, fostered or found. Attendees are invited to visit the exhibition after the talk.

Angela Barrett is one of the most highly acclaimed British illustrators. Having studied at Maidstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art, she has illustrated a number of picture books, including a re-telling of Anne Frank that has been translated into twelve different languages, The Hidden House, for which she won the W H Smith Illustration award, and Can It Be True? for which she won the Smarties Prize. She lives in London, England.