Higher Education for Good
Cover artwork, Hope, for the open access volume Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures, edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin.
Published book cover
George Sfougaras
Illustration, books and collaborative publications
I create visual responses to stories, poems, books and research projects. The work often moves through memory, displacement, place, witness and the meeting point between private experience and shared history.
How I collaborate
I work best when collaboration begins with clarity, kindness and mutual respect. My images are visual responses to a text, story or project, not simply decoration. Before beginning, it helps to agree the purpose, audience, number of images, timescale, budget, credit and intended use. I usually work through an initial visual proposal, one main revision stage, and a final minor adjustment if needed. Feedback is most useful when it is clear and specific, and placed beside the image rather than drawn over it, unless we have agreed otherwise.
Selected work
A small selection of book, poetry, magazine and advocacy related illustration projects.
Tales from an Old Fort Town
An illustrated publication made in response to the Jewish history of Crete, pairing drawings and prints with poems by Shelley Tracy.
Image and text in dialogue with place and memory
Birds Without Sky
Illustration work for Malka Al-Haddad's poetry collection Birds Without Sky, shaped around exile, displacement, resilience and survival.
Poetry and visual response
The Truth at the End of the Night
Selected illustrations for Malka Al-Haddad's later collection The Truth at the End of the Night. The sequence moves through witness, tenderness, loss and endurance.
Illustrated poetry sequence
Unpublished book project
An illustration study for an unpublished book project connected with childhood memory, displacement and the the Greek Civil War and its aftermath. The author and title are withheld until publication.
Names and title withheld until publication
The Other Side of Hope
Cover artwork used for the first online issue of The Other Side of Hope, a literary magazine focused on refugee and immigrant writing.
Cover image in literary publication context
Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network
Existing work, including Salt, was used in Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network material for advocacy, information and public events.
Permissioned public use of existing work
A Winter's Night in Prague
An artist written and illustrated narrative exploring solitude, atmosphere, memory and the imaginative charge of place.
Text and image developed together
Some projects begin as commissions, some as collaborations, and some as permissions to use existing work. What connects them is a commitment to careful looking, clear dialogue and images that carry real emotional and narrative weight.