After graduating Royal College of Art, now she lives and works in Brighton as a manga artist. She also attends some manga-related events and runs manga workshops at schools, libraries, and museums around UK, such as British Libraries and Victoria and Albert Museum. She usually creates story and illustration on her own like King of a Miniature Garden (2007), her first manga, but also works with story writers, such as 'As You Like It' (2008 SelfMadeHero, London) by Shakespeare and 'Hagakure' by T Yamamoto (adopted by Sean Michael Wilson, 2010 Kodansha International, Tokyo)
Contact
Email Address: chitan.garden@gmail.com
Education
2003 - 05 MA in Printmaking, Royal College of Art
2000 - 03 BA in Fine Art
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
1999 - 00 Foundation studies in Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Publications
2006-07
King of a Miniature Garden Vol1-4 (self-published)
Featured in Neo Magazine and Advanced Photoshop
2007 Oct The Mammoth Book
of Best New Manga 2 (Robinson, London)
2008 Oct The Mammoth Book
of Best New Manga 3 (Robinson, London)
Nov
As
You Like It (Self Made Hero, London)
2009 Featured in Manga Quake 7 (Futurequake Press), Computer Art
Project
(tutorial) and Mooky Chick web
magazine (interview)
2010 Sep Hagakure (Kodansha
International, Tokyo)
2011 Feb Story Of Lee (NBM, NY)
2013 Jan The Book of
Five Rings (Shambhala, USA)
2014/2015 Worrier Kids
1&2, Children’s book illustration (Caboodle Books, Steeton)
Selected Contributions
2011 1001 Comics You Must Read Before
You Die, Paul Gravett,
Octopus Books, London
2013 The Complete Guide to Drawing
Mnaga, Sonia Leong, Barrons, NY
101 Top Tips From
Professional Manga Artists, Ilex, East Sussex
2015 Drawing Basics Made Easy, Flame Tree
Publishing, London
How To Draw Manga Made Easy, Flame Tree Publishing, London
2016
Knife: The Cult, Craft and Culture of the Cook’s Knife, Tim Hayward,
Quadrille Publishing Ltd, London
Event, Exhibition and workshop
Regularly
appears at events such as London MCM Expo (May and October) , Hyper Japan, London
(workshop and manga portrait) and annual Japan Expo, Paris, France
Also
running several workshops at libraries, museums and schools around UK.
Regular
workshop leader/speaker at the several Japanese related events organized by
Japan Society.
Selected
workshops and event
2016
Feb-May Comix Creatrix: 100 Women
Making Comics, Exhibition,
House of
Illustration, London
Feburary Alice’s Adventure in Comics-Land, panel,
Feburary Alice’s Adventure in Comics-Land, panel,
British Library,
London
May Bradford Litrature Festival,
workshop and panels
June Saturday Studio: Manga Drawing
workshop
Wellcome
Collection, London
Oct Shakespeare and Manga workshops and talk in Taiwan
organized by the British Council
Oct Shakespeare and Manga workshops and talk in Taiwan
organized by the British Council
2015
Oct Lakes Art Festival, Kendal
Nov Otaku Atack!, workshop, British Museum, London
4 Koma manga workshop,
Japan Embassy, London
2014
August Geek Con, workshop, Gateshead
Oct Lakes Art Festival, Kendal
Oct Lakes Art Festival, Kendal
Nov
Canterbury Anifest, workshop, Canterbury
2013
April COMICA Festival, panel and
live drawing, London
May COMICA Manga Asia, workshop, Asia House, London
Nov Anime Attack, workshop, Gateshead
2012
Feb Japan Expo, Marseire,
France
Nov Yaoi Yuri Con, Lyon, France,
workshop and a panel
2010
April As you like it: the power
of subversion in Manga comics
Talk with Ilya at
Firstsite, Colchester
July Artist in residence, Sainsbury’s
Centre of Visual Art, Norwich
August MANGA UK, exhibition curated by Ilya,
Idea Store
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Oct That’s Novel!, exhibition organized
by Paul Gravett, London
2009 May
Aberdeen Word Festival, workshop, book signing and a panel
Arctic Comic
Festival, panel and book signing, Kemi, Finland
August Edinburgh International Book Festival, workshops
and book
Signing
Oct
Manga workshop, Victoria
and Albert Museum, London
Beowulf workshop,
British Library, London
Dec ‘What makes manga Manga?’ talk, British
Museum, London
2008
Jan-Mar Manga Jiman winners’ exhibition,
Japan Embassy, London
March Classic Comics, panel, Herefordshire Council
Oct Comica, panel and book signing, ICA,
London
2007
Oct Comica, panel, ICA, London
2006
Oct 24 Hour Comics Day at ICA,
London
Comica, panel, ICA,
London
Nov International Anime and Manga
Festival, panel, London
2008 Jan Manga Jiman competition organized by Japan Embassy,
Joint 6th place
