By Karrie Fransman
Karrie Fransman’s graphic piece ‘Everything is Foreign’ is part of the International Literature Showcase’s ‘Crossing Borders’ series.
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‘Everything is Foreign’ illustrates the innate foreignness of our own country, the objects in our homes and even the genes in our bodies. This self-portrait illustrates all the parts of Karrie’s house, body and language that are ‘foreign’, and objects imported or invented as ideas from foreign countries that have crossed borders into British homes. Karrie herself has genes from parents and grandparents who crossed borders from Russia, Poland, Lithuania and Holland to South Africa and into Britain. We are all foreign.
Karrie Fransman’s graphic novels, The House That Groaned and the award-winning Death of the Artist were published by Penguin Random House.
Her comics appear in The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, The Young Vic, Psychologies Magazine, The Arts Council and for The Red Cross.
Her work has been commissioned for the Southbank Centre and an exhibition with Manchester Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. She has spoken internationally and at The Guardian Masterclasses, TEDx, Central Saint Martins, The Hay Festival, The British Council, ARVON, The Institute of Contemporary Arts and the British Library.
Commissioned as part of the International Literature Showcase 2015–2021; a partnership between National Centre for Writing, British Council and Arts Council England, supported by Creative Scotland, Arts Council Northern Ireland and Wales Arts International.
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