IRO TSAVALA is a Royal College of Art graduate, and lecturer in illustration at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. Interested in the expression of ideas through narrative, the playful relationship between words and images, and the function of the book format, her work embraces the use of found ephemera, drawing and printmaking, resulting in both playful and sometimes enigmatic imagery. Iro’s work has been exhibited at Boston Children’s Museum, Poetry Society, Somerset House, Ethnographic Museum Krakow, Bologna Children’s Bookfair, Women’s Library, Animafest Croatia, and Imagine Science Film Festival New York. Iro’s book Yappo is published by Company Cod and has featured with the Journal of Illustration, Planhunter, Poetry Society, Dromineer Literary Festival and more.
