Inside Illustration Podcast 6 : Fashion
Guests for the Fashion Illustration season podcast are prize-winning illustrator, Jessica Rose Bird, plus artist and illustrator Daniel David Freeman, whose clients include Prada, Versace and Simone Rocha. Both artists use a variety of materials and approaches to their work. Our host is Rachel Emily Taylor.
Our guests discuss tailoring your portfolio for fashion clients, the importance of research and experimentation, personal projects, live drawing at events and lots more.
Find out the backgrounds of our podcast guests and host below, and listen below or search Inside Illustration on Spotify, Apple or where you find your podcasts.
Jessica Rose Bird, Illustrator
Jessica Rose Bird is an award-winning Scottish artist and fashion illustrator based in London. Jessica worked in the fashion industry before becoming a full-time artist in 2018.
Now primarily working as a fashion illustrator, Jessica’s work often focusses on the moving body and capturing its brief moments of stillness. She has a talent at capturing the pace of the people and objects she draws, ensuring everything is alive through her spontaneous, improvised strokes. .
Working with highly pigmented paint, brightly coloured chalk pastel and willow charcoal Jessica’s intuitive hand is guided by her medium, the environment of her subjects and colour. Clients include Prada, Hermes, Versace, Edition Hotels and Belmond.
Daniel David Freeman, Illustrator & Designer
Daniel David Freeman is an artist, designer and illustrator from, and based in, London. He graduated from graphic design at Camberwell College of the Arts in 2008 and went on to complete a Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea in 2018.
His work collages a range of references from tattooing, manga and outsider art to religious iconography and classical painting to create a profoundly referential visual language.
He works in illustration and design for fashion and music commercially, as well as pursuing a varied art practice. He creates imagery for garments, publications and installation as well as creating his own clothing for films and exhibitions through his ongoing project @getalifestore.
He has worked for brands such as Simone Rocha, Converse and Dr Martens, Adidas and The V&A as well as exhibiting across London and internationally. In September 2024 he took up a residency with @acehotelkyoto (curated by @ccommunee) where he was commissioned to create a series of artworks for their purpose built gallery space whilst staying at the hotel.
He also works as a lecturer in illustration at Camberwell College of the Arts on the BA and has previously worked across their other illustration courses and throughout UAL.
Dr Rachel Emily Taylor, podcast host
Rachel is the Course Leader of BA Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. She has undertaken residencies at the Foundling Museum, the Bronte Parsonage Museum, Bowes Museum, and the Horniman Museum.
Her research explores how illustration practice might communicate the historical person’s ‘voice’ and examines the value of multiple voices in the museum.
Rachel’s book, Illustration and Heritage, explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the potential role of contemporary illustration in cultural heritage.
