Oliver Jeffers

Almost there… (Or am I leaving?)

And that’s a wrap for today. This sculpture trail gets finished tomorrow… @ourplaceearth @unboxed2022

Calling all people in the general vicinity of the top half of the island of Ireland with a fondness for dressing up… Can you help us with an Astronomical World Record Attempt? 

The Mission: Break a new Guinness World Record for the most amount of humans gathered in one place dressed as astronauts. 

The Destination: Bay Road Park, Derry 

Get suited up, and join us on 23rd April from 11am! Me and mine will be there with space suits on. More information at ourplaceinspace.earth 

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10 DAYS until Our Place in Space launches. Dust off your space helmets, and meet us in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Friday 22nd April, on Earth Day, as the journey begins. Come and walk the 10km trail scale model of humanities place in our solar system! You’ll find me at the Guildhall, in conversation with Professor Stephen Smartt, and Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, bringing together the perspectives of an artist, an astrophysicist, and a space scientist as we celebrate this planet we call home. ...

My next book is looking at humanity’s futile familiarity with conflict… where, how, and with who else, we exist. I haven’t really drawn battles since I was 6 years old. It’s hard going.

Found in the archives- a time lapse taken one afternoon in the studio a few years back… working on ‘Once Upon an Alphabet’ I think.

I made this painting in 2015. It belongs to my friend @malcolmabrown and he just found it after a relocation. In his words: “Flaming Russian rockets attacking a rural countryside have taken on a new meaning. Foreshadowing would be an understatement.  Clearly, Russian aggression has infiltrated our minds for years.   The irony of how unsettling this painting is, is not lost on me.” Things can change meaning when the context shifts. The word on the rocket is the Russian for ‘Rat’. Another way o...

Last week I painted on the window of the @feitdirect store on Prince St in Manhattan to launch our footwear collaboration. It’ll be up for another month. The slippers we created celebrate the slow, hand made process of craft made to last using natural materials -the antithesis of fast, disposable fashion. The leather they sourced is a byproduct of the global meat industry, and currently the best use for it, providing shoes that last for life without needing plastic. There are some pairs avai...

And now back in the Belfast studio working with @samwinston_ on our next book collaboration…

Had a beautifully creative burst back in my Brooklyn studio there. Sorry to all the people I didn’t see (which was basically everyone) as there was art to be made. Apart from @marc I saw him when he took this picture.

Meanwhile, Back on Earth. Finding our place through time and space. A cosmic view on conflict. My new book, out this autumn, published on 4th October by @harpercollinsch in the UK, and @penguinkids in the US.