Artwork from Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash by Dave McKean
Artwork from Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash by Dave McKean
Artwork from Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash by Dave McKean
Created by Dave McKean, Black Dog is a further illustration of how comic art is tackling major social and historical themes and is fast becoming an art form which is finally gaining the attention it deserves amongst art critics and art commissioners.
Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash, by Dave McKean is co-commissioned by The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, On a Marche sur la Bulle and 14-18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Black Dog is Dave McKean’s response to the work and writing of painter Paul Nash. Nash, who created powerful and disturbing paintings that captured the nightmare-like battlefields he witnessed during the First World War.
Black Dog is both a graphic novel and a performance spanning many different media – comic art, music, graphic story-telling, projections and visual art. The performance has toured internationally, including a sell-out performance at Tate Britain, as part of the Toronto Comic Art Festival on 11th May, 2017 and as a closing performance at the Derby Book Festival in June 2017.
Black Dog has been awarded the Event of the Year at the Cumbria Life Culture Awards 2017.
Black Dog at Toronto Comic Art Festival 2017
The next performance of Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash by Dave McKean will be at Toronto Comic Art Festival on Thursday 11 May 2017.
14-18 NOW
14-18 NOW is a programme of extraordinary art experiences connecting people with the First World War as part of the UK’s official centenary commemorations. 14-18 NOW have commissioned 146 artworks in 160 locations across the UK since 2014, with over 30 million people experiencing a commission to date.
Dave McKean
Dave McKean’s work has won numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award, the V&A Museum Illustrated Book Award and the Harvey Award for best Graphic Novel. He has worked alongside writer Neil Gaiman on graphic novels including the critically acclaimed The Sandman series, as well as illustrating the celebrated Batman graphic novel Arkham Asylum.
