Events

Give it a Go: Manga Art with Inko

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This event took place on December 11th, 2021
Venue: 49- 51 High Street (former ASK shop), Crawley

On 11th December Japanese Manga Artist Inko was joined by the people of Crawley to create some special winter Manga characters and produce your very own greeting cards to take home.

Inko Ai Takita is a UK based manga artist. She was born in Kyoto, Japan, and she grew up with manga comics, loving both reading and drawing them. After graduating from Kyoto University of Art & Design, and its 2 years master’s course, she moved to England and studied at Central Saint Martin’s college of Art & Design.

Since then, she has been working as a Manga artist and delivering manga workshops in schools, galleries, museums, and libraries, such as the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She was working as a culture and language ambassador with the School of Oriental and African Studies. She also actively takes part in Art projects such as creating 19 manga posters at Embankment station (Art on Underground supported by London Underground), and the Animation works – both in collaboration with British contemporary artist David Blandy.

Her manga books are available – “Manga Yokai stories” (Tuttle) “Portrait of Violence (New International) won an Independent Publisher Book Awards medal, 2018 “.

An interactive online theatre “Flight Paths” which she joined as an illustrator was awarded the P.K. Walker Innovation in Craft Award from Superfest Disability Film Festival 2021.

Follow Inko on Instagram here