I was recently told about Graham Rawle and thought I’d write a little piece about him. Graham Rawle is a illustrator and writer. He mainly works with collage material and his visual works consist of illustration, design, collage and installation. His weekly article ‘Lost Consonants’ first appeared in the weekend Guardian in 1990 and lasted for 15 years and was followed by other pieces in the Observer and the Sunday Telegraph. Among his published books are ‘The Wonder book of fun’ and ‘Woman’s World,’ a novel created completely by using found text from magazines.
I have found that he brings a refreshing outlook to publishing. Especially the Woman’s World book. It must have taken a very long time and a lot of patience to create. Around 1,000 Woman’s magazines worked as source material for his book. He started by cutting out each and every word that he might need, he originally created a temporary storage for the words in a scrap book but then they were catalogued in tins and boxes ready to be glued onto each and every page of the book. Every word in the publication was taken out of magazines but the punctuation was taken from books.
