GRADUATE artwork created by students during lockdown is to go on display in an annual exhibition.

The award-winning Northern Festival of Illustration has once again returned to Hartlepool Art Gallery with a new exhibition celebrating the diverse work of illustration graduates.

As part of the bi-annual festival, which is organised in conjunction with the Northern School of Art, a display of works created during lockdown by the Class of 2020 illustration graduates is on show to visitors until Sunday, November 28.

The show is in response to last year’s Covid restrictions as the illustration graduates were unable to exhibit their final major project pieces because their final degree show was cancelled.

Visitors to the gallery can see works by illustrators who graduated from the Northern School of Art’s BA (Hons) Illustration for Commercial Application degree in 2020.

Further, specially commissioned illustration exhibitions are also taking place across the town at The BIS and the Northern School of Art, with a show later coming up later in the festival at St Hilda’s Church on the Headland.

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