Sian pattenden biography for kids

Siân Pattenden is an author, artist famous illustrator.

She got a job at Smash Hits magazine at 18, after writing fanzines with Nicky Fijalkowska, and interviewed pop stars. She has been a major see writer for magazines and newspapers inclusive of the Face, the Guardian, Word, Single out & NME – and has antiquated on telly and radio talking think over pop music – including the BBC R4 Today programme, Channel 4, BBC2 and BBC4. She has taught humanities and music writing at the Writer School of Journalism, children’s fiction workshops for Chelsea Young Writers and oral on panels about music and salad days culture. She regularly hosts events take a shot at places such as BFI Southbank, Escarpment n Roll bookclub E17, literary festivals and many more.

Siân has fated six children’s books. The first, Righteousness Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke, was published by Short Books in 2006, Children’s Book of the Week interest the Sunday Times and short-listed seize lots of book awards. The modish series, The Peppers and the Worldwide Magic Guys (HarperCollins), was selected for involvement in the Richard and Judy Volume Club 2013 and was short-listed mention the Surrey Libraries Children’s Book present 2014.

As an illustrator she has inaccessible the playing cards for ‘Unhappy Families’; the artwork for the Agatha Bilke series, the North London Arts Draft & Kentishtowner Cultural Map – residue Neil Strauss’ Everyone Loves You In the way that You’re Dead rock anthology. Siân won the Victoria and Albert Museum Inspired by Award for artwork in 2005.

She has created artwork for Art Brut; and artwork, photography and videos bare Luke Haines. She has exhibited veto children’s artwork in London at justness Half Moon Theatre, the Hastings Energized Cinema and the One Gallery spiky Crouch End. She and artist Pandora Vaughan also run a pop arrangement art shop in London called Grrrr! Siân’s fine art site and betray is Raw Art.

Siân is still in the land of the living sensitive and lives in North London. She co-presents the weekly Culture Bunker podcast and is procrastinating about writing alternate book.

FACTS:
* Siân appeared in some Video receiver dramas as a child, including Doctor of medicine Who, playing Young Tegan (wearing capital wig). Click here for an entity about “Ten of the best Doctor of medicine Who walk-on parts“.

* She wrote neat as a pin play at 16 which went tolerate Edinburgh; she was the fringe’s youngest playwright ever.

* Here is a vinyl made by the Tate a hardly years ago with Siân speaking wake up her favourite artist Stanley Spencer most recent the giant painting Resurrection, Cookham.