Helsinki Comics Festival 2024

The Festival brings award-winning British creators and pop to Cable Factory.

Dave McKean and Gareth Brookes

Artists Dave McKean and Gareth Brookes are special guest of Helsinki Comics Festival 2024. The artists’ first solo exhibitions in Finland are organised in cooperation with MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre.

The opening of the exhibitions and the festival will be celebrated on Friday 30 August at 5 – 8 PM.

Welcome!

MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre
Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 C, Helsinki

30 August – 1 September 2024
Open Sat 11 AM – 8 PM, Sun 11 AM – 7 PM

Dave McKean

Dave McKean has illustrated and designed nearly ninety award winning and ground breaking books and graphic novels, including the solo works Cages, two Pictures That Tick volumes of short stories, and Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash, and the collaborative works The Magic of Reality (Richard Dawkins), Arkham Asylum (Grant Morrison), and Night Shift (Stephen King).

McKean has directed five short films and three feature films: MirrorMask, Luna, and The Gospel of Us.

The exhibition features short films, comics, illustrations, and original drawings.

Gareth Brookes

Brookes makes comics and writes about comics. He is currently working on a PhD at the University of the Arts London, exploring comics, reproduction, and materiality.

The works in the exhibition span a ten-year period and include original artwork from the books The Dancing Plague, Threadbare, A Thousand Coloured Castles, and Home.

These works are made using processes such as embroidery and pyrography, and are produced using unusual materials such as charcoal, paper napkins, textiles, wax, and fire.