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Christine Roche

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Christine Roche
Born1939 (age 84–85)
Occupation(s)Illustrator, cartoonist, teacher, filmmaker
Websitewww.christineroche.co.uk/index.html

Christine Roche (born 1939) is French-Canadian illustrator, cartoonist, teacher and film-maker who lives and works in London.[1] Her work has appeared in several books, magazines, and national newspapers. She is currently a painter.

Biography

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Christine Roche has illustrated many books, both for children and adults, and worked for a number of leading publishers. She has produced animated films for Channel 4 and UNICEF, and lectured in various colleges including the London College of Communication,[2] the Royal College of Art[3] and the National Institute of Design (NID) in India.

Roche cartooned for the publication Spare Rib before co-founding and self-publishing Sourcream in 1979 with Jo Nesbitt, Liz Mackie and Lesley Ruda.[4] More underground British women cartoonists became involved in Sourcream No. 2, which was published in 1981 by the Sheba Feminist Press in paperback.[5]

Roche joined a number of collectives, including the Kids Book Group, and the Hackney Flashers collective of feminist photographers that started in the 1970s and produced exhibitions on "Women at Work" and "Who's Holding the Baby?".[4]

She is author of I'm Not a Feminist But... (1985) which she made into an animated film with Marjut Rimminen.[6]

She also co-directed the short animated films The Stain (1991)[7] viewable at the Internet Archive and Someone Must Be Trusted (1987).[8]

In addition, she designed the characters[9] in the children's television cartoon series Treasure[10]

Her work appears in the anthology Funny Girls – Cartooning for Equality edited by Diane Atkinson (Penguin Books, 1997),[11] and The Inking Woman: 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain, edited by Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate (Myriad Editions, 2018).[12]

Bibliography

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As author

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  • I'm Not a Feminist But... – Virago Press Ltd (1985): ISBN 978-0-86068-604-0

As illustrator

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As painter

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  • 2009: Morley Gallery
  • 2009: Cafe Gallery
  • 2010: Burgh House
  • 2011: West Eleven Gallery
  • 2011: Colour Gallery
  • 2012: St. Martins in the Field
  • 2012: Core Arts
  • 2012: LCP (London Centre of Psychotherapy)
  • 2014: St. Martins in the Field
  • 2015: Islington Arts Society
  • 2016: Islington Arts Society
  • 2016: National Open Art (NOA)
  • 2017: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
  • 2017: National Open Art (NOA)
  • 2017: Ply Gallery

Filmography

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  • The Stain (1991)[1]
  • Someone Must Be Trusted (1987) – one of a series of four short animated documentaries about Women and the Law[13]
  • I'm Not a Feminist But... (1985)[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b Screenonline
  2. ^ Octopus publishing Archived 2007-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ RCA site Archived 2007-10-26 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b The inking woman: 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain. Streeten, Nicola, Tate, Cath, (London, England). Oxford: Myriad Editions. 2018. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-9955900-8-3. OCLC 1007312174.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ The inking woman: 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain. Streeten, Nicola, Tate, Cath, (London, England). Oxford. 2018. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-9955900-8-3. OCLC 1007312174.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ a b Screenonline
  7. ^ IMDb The Stain
  8. ^ "Someone Must Be Trusted". Archived from the original on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 14 November 2007.
  9. ^ Montreal--(Business wire)--Jan. 11, 2000
  10. ^ ABC Kids
  11. ^ Illustration Agency Archived September 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ The inking woman : 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain. Streeten, Nicola, Tate, Cath, 1951–, Cartoon Museum (London, England). Oxford. 21 September 2023. ISBN 978-0-9955900-8-3. OCLC 1007312174.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ^ "Yadin Productions". Archived from the original on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 14 November 2007.
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