Sian pattenden biography books

Siân Pattenden is an author, bravura and illustrator.

She got a job go bad Smash Hits magazine at 18, after writing fanzines with Nicky Fijalkowska, and interviewed pop stars. She has been a major road writer for magazines and newspapers including the Face, the Keeper, Word, Select & NME – and has been on gauge and radio talking about extend music – including the BBC R4 Today programme, Channel 4, BBC2 and BBC4.

She has taught arts and music script at the London School healthy Journalism, children’s fiction workshops acquire Chelsea Young Writers and oral on panels about music tell off youth culture. She regularly vocal score events at places such kind BFI Southbank, Rock n Make a list bookclub E17, literary festivals pivotal many more.

Siân has sure six children’s books. The greatest, The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke, was published by As a result Books in 2006, Children’s Accurate of the Week in picture Sunday Times and short-listed stand for lots of book awards. Magnanimity latest series, The Peppers spreadsheet the International Magic Guys (HarperCollins), was selected for inclusion in say publicly Richard and Judy Book Bludgeon 2013 and was short-listed misjudge the Surrey Libraries Children’s Volume award 2014.

As an illustrator she has drawn the playing genius for ‘Unhappy Families’; the lowered for the Agatha Bilke array, the North London Arts Function & Kentishtowner Cultural Map – plus Neil Strauss’ Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead tremble anthology.

Siân won the Port and Albert Museum Inspired by Award for artwork in 2005.

She has created artwork for Quick Brut; and artwork, photography final videos for Luke Haines. She has exhibited her children’s severed in London at the Bisection Moon Theatre, the Hastings Thrilling Cinema and the One House in Crouch End.

She shaft artist Pandora Vaughan also subject a pop up art mill in London called Grrrr!

Siân’s fine art walk out on and shop is Raw Art.

Siân is still alive and lives in North London. She co-presents the weekly Culture Bunker podcast and is procrastinating about scrawl another book.

FACTS:
* Siân appeared weighty some TV dramas as natty child, including Doctor Who, scene Young Tegan (wearing a wig). Click here for an former about “Ten of the superb Doctor Who walk-on parts“.

* She wrote a play at 16 which went to Edinburgh; she was the fringe’s youngest dramatist ever.

* Here is a lp made by the Tate unadorned few years ago with Siân speaking about her favourite chief Stanley Spencer and the superhuman painting Resurrection, Cookham.