Wednesday, November 12, 2014 Choosing when to die

A drawing for the NYT today, about the right to choose when to die. I did two versions, but in the end we went with the line drawing. Read the letter here.

Friday, July 11, 2014 New Datter Collection

At last, the new collection I've been working on for months for Datter is here. The new pieces are a little more abstract, some using motifs from existing pieces - multiplying, simplifying, chopping and changing them around - others completely new.

We also made a new lookbook, photographed by the incredible Sabine Timm. Collector of beach trash, creator of weird, funny, unnatural little worlds.

And the final announcement about Datter is: we now have a studio in Brooklyn as well as in London, and therefore have two websites to go with. There's a USA site for US and Canadian customers, and a UK site for UK, European, and international customers. Anybody can order from either site, of course, but when you visit the sites will try to direct you to the one which gives you the fastest, cheapest shipping options. You can also switch between them by using the flags at the top right. We're a multinational now. Believe.

Monday, July 7, 2014 Kinfolk / Nautical Tattoos

Drew some traditional sailor tattoos for Kinfolk Magazine. More here.

Friday, November 15, 2013 NYT : Sudden shifts on the health front

I did a drawing for the fine folks at the NYT yesterday. Letters on the topic of Obamacare, and the USA's most-expensive-healthcare-system-in-the-world. You can read the letters, and see the drawing in situ, here.

God I love the NHS.

Monday, May 27, 2013 Window Display

A couple of months ago I put together a tiny exhibition in the window of Bookartbookshop. In case you're not familiar with it, Bookartbookshop is an amazing place - tiny and packed to the rafters with independent and self published books, full of weirdness and beauty. It's a good spot. It felt nice having some of my work visible to the actual real-life public.

I had a mixture of ceramics, drawings, wire sculptures, and some altered plants. One of the plants I cut all the leaves into the shapes of hands. It looked good, but by the time I took these photos it had shrivelled up somewhat. Quelle surprise.

Monday, April 22, 2013 Datter in DPI Magazine

This was pretty exciting. I was asked to do an interview for DPI, a Taiwanese magazine. They've featured a ton of artists that I love, so it was great to be included. And boy, were they speedy - only a couple weeks from my answering the questions, to the magazine coming through my mailbox. If you'd like to read my answers, you can see gigantic images of the pages here: page 1 and page 2. And check out the cat making her editorial debut!

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Cutting social security

A super-quick-turnaround drawing for the NYTimes letters page yesterday. Letters responding to an article about proposed cuts to social security. Rather timely given that yesterday a barrage of benefit cuts came into place in the UK, heralding the apocalypse we've all been waiting for.*

In print the drawing is teeny-wee, but you can read the letters and see the drawing (again) online here.

*Those cuts, combined with the whole goodbye-gulf-stream-hello-eternal-winter situation, mean it might be time to up sticks to Cali. For the entire population of the UK. Get ready, In-N-Out!

Friday, November 23, 2012 Comics Sketchbooks

Well this is exciting. A couple weeks ago I got a very nice parcel in the mail, containing this book. That would be good enough, but the best bit about it is: I'm frickin in the book. The legendary Steve Heller asked me to send him some sketchbook scans and final pieces for this project a couple years ago, and I'm amazed and happy to see that they made it into the book. Look at this!

Uh, yeah, that's my name in the contents page in some pretty intense company - Charles Burns?! Robert Crumb?! Ben Katchor?! Not to mention my ol' man. So rad.

And that's one of my two spreads.

I cannot express how flattering and great it feels to be in this most excellent book. Time to knuckle down and make all those comics I keep meaning to make. Huge thanks to Steve Heller.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012 IVs

I did a drawing for the NYT letters page yesterday. A heavy subject - the debate around assisted suicide. It was an interesting one to work on, and good to finally do something with Alexandra Zsigmond for the letters page, after being foiled by timing a few times before (these drawings have a super speedy turnaround!). So here it is.

And you can read the letters on the subject here, if you didn't catch them in yesterday's paper.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Tuesday

Oh lawd, it's been a long time. Life's been complicated. I'm getting back on track now, fingers crossed.

This is a drawing I did a little while back for the excellent ladies at Got A Girl Crush Magazine. It's a portrait of my pal Tuesday - we interviewed and illustrated each other. So if you pick up the magazine (which you should do) you'll be treated to quite a long (and fascinating, obv) interview with me. My name is even on the front cover of the magazine, yo!

An extract, in case you just can't wait. I was asked to write a haiku that defined my work. Here it is, tellin' you stuff you already know:

Angry young woman
Making drawings mainly of
Angry young women

Thursday, August 9, 2012 A Sikh Temple's Century

I'm a day late in posting this, due to the prolonged madness of daily life. But yesterday I had a new drawing in the NYT Op-Ed section. It was a super-fast turnaround, a few hours to do sketches and then another couple of hours to whip up the final. I love this kind of job - have to drop all plans for the day and entirely focus on the article and the drawing. It's rad.

This one was for an article about a Sikh-American woman's memories of her community and her temple, in the aftermath of the appalling Wisconsin murders. You can read the article here. I recommend it.

Saturday, May 26, 2012 Oh Comely

Drew this for the lovely Oh Comely Magazine. Accompanying an article about a teenage girl who shared her birthday party with her grandmother, and thoughts about keeping friends throughout your life. Just a simple drawing.

There was also a tiny interview with me at the back of the magazine (I'll spare you) and they're doing a giveaway for one of my garland kits too. It's a Kaye-heavy issue.

Friday, April 13, 2012 The Daily

Hooo boy, it's been a while. I've been moving apartment and dealing with a huge swarm of deadlines, which combined has made me pretty lax at updating. Things have calmed down a bit now though, so I'm gonna get back on track.

Here's a drawing I did for someone who can maintain frequent updates - The Daily. For an article about finding a good doctor, and how much of that is up to chance. It was nice to cut up bits of colored paper again, it's been a while.

Thursday, March 22, 2012 Homesickness

My first one-day-turnaround drawing for the New York Times Op-Ed pages. Sketches due by 2pm, final due by 5.30pm, runs in print the next day. This was awesome to work on, with art direction & moral support from Matt Dorfman. I'm just gonna come out and say it: I love deadlines. I need to get a room with deadlines.

You can read the article here. It's about people moving to other countries and keeping ties to home via technology (hello, this article is about Kaye Blegvad).

Friday, March 16, 2012 A plea to the New York based readers

Things are getting busy over at Kaye Blegvad, Inc. The next few weeks are going to be crazy- I think crazy enough that I can't actually do it all myself. So I'm looking for some temporary assistance in the form of a human being or two.

If anybody interested in illustration or making jewellery would like to help me / hang out with me, it would be the most amazing thing ever. It'd mainly be helping produce products, working on jewelry, packaging and things like that. There might be a bit of dashing around town to pick stuff up, but mainly we'd just be working together, probably with a Netflix-on-projector accompaniment. I hope it will be interesting and a bit fun.

I'm based in South Slope and work in spaces in Gowanus and Carroll Gardens. I'd love it if somebody could help for two or three days a week from about March 22nd to about April 8th, but it's all flexible. If you can only do a couple days it'd all help! I can't offer much by way of wages (I know, I know, it sucks, I've been there, once I am rich I will make it up to you) but I can cover subway rides, buy lunches, and offer some jewelry rewards. I promise not to treat you like a slave.

Hit me up with an email if you're interested! And feel free to pass my info on to anybody who might be keen.

Monday, January 16, 2012 Internet presence

For the NYT Townies column. A harrowing one, this one, as the internet prompts a woman to recall her rape. Not for the faint of heart, but worth a read if you can stomach it. Read it here.

The author wrote to me and said she was proud to have my drawing accompanying her story. Essentially the highlight of my career so far.

Friday, January 6, 2012 Crackup at Radio City

Aaand another one for the NYT Townies!



This was a great article - the protagonist was a 24 year old girl, committed to a mental hospital. (there but by the grace of god go I, eh?). Sort of accidentally, sort of on purpose, I made her look a lot like me. A sneaky self-portrait as myself as a mad girl, surrounded by dancing girls. Pretty much sums it up.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Cathedral cradle

Another drawing for the NYT Townies section - the role a Cathedral plays in the life of a family over the years. The article is here.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Hanging her out to dry

I did this drawing for the NYT column 'Townies' last week. It's on the website, and was in the Sunday Review last weekend. It never ceases to be incredibly exciting to have work in print, let alone in print on the scale of the New York Times - I took cheesy photos of myself with the paper but I'll spare you. Probably better suited for my private collection.

You can read the article and see the drawing in situ here.

Monday, September 12, 2011 crown & lantern

A couple of drawings inspired by Crown's Clothing's spring/summer line.