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The Supreme Court: a guide for bears is available from the UK Supreme Court, bookshops and Amazon, or email me your order.

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"Clever, funny, informative." - Ann McAllister, Judge

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News

Poems have appeared in the TLS, Daily Telegraph, Acumen, Black Box Manifold, The Frogmore Papers, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Interpreter's House, Orbis, PNR, Poetry Salzburg, Stand, and Tears in the Fence.

Law cover illustrations

Litigants in Person in the Civil Justice System by Kate Leader (Bloomsbury)

Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision by Professor Peter Goodrich (OUP)

Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court edited by William Day and Sarah Worthington (Hart Publishing)

A Court of Specialists: Judicial Behavior on the Supreme Court by Chris Hanretty (OUP)

Debating Judicial Appointments in an Age of Diversity edited by Graham Gee and Erika Rackley (Routledge)

BVL: Model Law Commission Report, annually 2017-2022

Law articles and illustrations

I wrote and illustrated a chapter for Design in Legal Education (Routledge, 2022) and made a short video about it here.

The UK Supreme Court Yearbook

Proof, the print magazine of The Justice Gap: illustrations 2019; article about drawing in court 2017; launch issue 2016.

The Presidents' Hammers edited by Diego Tonus includes court sketches.

Emily Allbon of City Law School curates 'the less textual legal gallery' tl;dr, a colourful and entertaining resource.

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law: the drawing arc (street, Occupy, court, shibari) 2019

'Inhuman horror': my UK Supreme Court blog features in an article in International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 2019.

University of Porto, O Estranho e o Estrangeiro: Arquitectura, Justiça e Teatro: live-drawing 2015

Counsel magazine: Picture-blogging in the Supreme Court 2014

Non-law articles and illustrations

On 27 February 2019 my late father would have been 100 years old.

The Amorist: article about shibari for launch issue, 2017; reviewed Welsh National Opera's Der Rosenkavalier and National Gallery exhibition Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell.

Not Only Ropes produced by Andrea Ropes and Davide Conti includes shibari drawings.

Kancer Sutra for Sheffield University in Configurations (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Senate House, London: I drew the goings-on at the Dada-inspired Salon Voltaire, 2016.

I started drawing people in Portobello Road and wrote this article in ES Magazine in 2011, before drawing Occupy protest camps; both feature on my blog about live drawing. My other blog is about drawing shibari.

Talks

Callimachus: New College, Oxford, 2024

Catullus: 2023: Wadham College, Oxford; Classics Centre, Oxford; Ancient World Breakfast Club; Senate House, London. 2021: Exeter University seminar; Royal Over-Seas League; Sloane Club

Universities (court drawing): Queen Mary University of London 2021; Essex 2016, 2017, 2019; Sussex: talk for Art/Law Network 2018; Aberystwyth 2015; Birkbeck 2013

Örebro University, Sweden: International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law 2018

JW3, London: art and law salon 2017

Lincoln's Inn: Judicial Images workshop, Birkbeck/LSE 2015

University of Porto, O Estranho e o Estrangeiro: Arquitectura, Justiça e Teatro: talk 2015

St Mary's University, Twickenham, Centre for Law and Culture: (In)visibility 2016; Visualising Law and Gender 2014

UK Supreme Court: Museums at Night 2014

Cartoon County, Brighton, 2014; Laydeez Do Comics, London, 2013

Exhibitions

Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London: Catullus Bound, 2023

Kensington Town Hall: Notting Hill Carnival drawings on display 2019

Carnival Village Trust, Notting Hill: multi-media art competition, 'Carnival Captured' (second prize) 2017

School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London: solo exhibition, The Body of Law, in the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies' public engagement programme, 2016. Reviewed by ICLR and Talking Humanities.

Oslo, gallery VI, VII: solo exhibition 'Back to Life' 2015. Reviewed Flash Art, featured Contemporary Art Daily.

Pinsent Masons, Broadgate: solo exhibition of Supreme Court drawings, featured by @infolawcentre, 2015.