Editing Steven Appleby (section)

==Career==

[[File:Appleby-STREET-SIGNS.jpg|thumb|left|280px|''Starsigns '', from ''Daily Life on Other Planets''; 2015.]]
While at the RCA, Appleby met writer [[George Mole]]. The two collaborated on a number of projects, including their first book, ''No, Honestly, I Couldn’t Eat Another Mouthful'' (1984), various cartoon spreads for ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' (''Daily Life On Other Planets'', ''Lost Cars''), ''The Observer'' (''Home Economics in the Nineties''), ''The Oldie'', and a further three books.

Beginning while she was at the RCA, Appleby worked for her friend and fellow Manchester art school alumnus [[Malcolm Garrett]], who had been commissioned by editor Kasper de Graaf to design a monthly music, art and fashion magazine (''New Sounds New Styles''). After graduation, Appleby continued to assist Garrett at his company ''Assorted Images''; she worked on book design (''When Cameras Go Crazy'', ''More Dark Than Shark''), and record sleeves, particularly for [[Duran Duran]]. His work on designs for Duran Duran merchandising gave Appleby ideas which would eventually feed into the world of ''Captain Star'', when she was invited by the ''New Musical Express'' to submit an idea for a cartoon strip.<ref name="Sybertooth"/>

Appleby gave up commercial design to concentrate on her own art and creative work in late 1986. Garrett and de Graaf, business partners in ''Assorted Images'', continued to employ her, providing her with a studio and use of the Assorted Images facilities while she developed her own work. A three-year period of patronage followed, allowing Appleby the freedom to make drawings and paintings for various exhibitions. During this time, she developed ''Rockets Passing Overhead – the Annals of Captain Star'' for ''New Musical Express'', as well as creating drawings for ''Punch''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.punch.co.uk/about/index|title=PUNCH Magazine Cartoon Archive|website=www.punch.co.uk|access-date=26 February 2020|archive-date=29 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429102130/https://www.punch.co.uk/about/index|url-status=live}}</ref> and many other magazines. She was also able to create ''Small Birds Singing'' for ''The Times'' and to write, design and draw the comic book ''Rockets – A Way of Life by Captain J. Star'', which was published by ''Assorted Images'' in 1988.<ref name="Sybertooth"/>

[[File:ApplebyCaptSTARprint1987.jpg|thumb|left|280px|''[[Captain Star]] illustration for a tea towel design'', from ''[[Rockets Passing Overhead]]'' comic strip; 1987.]]
In 1987, animator and commercials director Pete Bishop approached Appleby, suggesting they work together. Their meeting led to various ''Captain Star'' short animations, a series of TV commercials and the development of the ''Captain Star'' TV series (with Frank Cottrell-Boyce).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143031/fullcredits|title=Captain Star (TV Series 1997–1998) - IMDb|via=www.imdb.com|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=27 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627053014/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143031/fullcredits|url-status=live}}</ref> The pilot, written by Cottrell-Boyce, was made in the Assorted Images building. ''Captain Star'' (featuring the voices of Adrian Edmondson, [[Richard E. Grant]], Denica Fairman, Gary Martin and Kerry Shale) aired on CITV in the UK in 1997 and was seen on various networks throughout the world, including Teletoon (Canada), YLE (Finland), Canal+ (France), ZDF (Germany) and Nickelodeon. One series of 13 episodes was made.

In 1989, Appleby left her employment at Assorted Images to establish her own studio. Kasper de Graaf continued acting as her agent until 2005.<ref name="Sybertooth"/>

Appleby has created cartoon strips for publications including ''The Guardian'', ''The Times'', ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/6-september-2001/frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung/|title=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|first=System|last=Administrator|date=September 6, 2001|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=15 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115135200/https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/6-september-2001/frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Die Zeit'', ''The Sunday Telegraph'', ''The New Musical Express'', ''The Daily Express'' and ''The Observer''. She has also written and drawn over 24 books, including ''Men – The Truth'', ''Jim – the Nine Lives Of A Dysfunctional Cat'' and ''Steven Appleby’s Guide To Life – the Complete Guardian Loomus Cartoons'', and ''The Captain Star Omnibus''. In 1994 her book of cartoon strips from ''Die Zeit'', ''Die Memoiren von Captain J. Star'', won the [[Max & Moritz Prize]] in Germany.

Her other works include the musical play ''Crocs In Frocks'' (with Teresa Early & Roger Gosling),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/alimaclaurin/4477167884/|title=crocs set|date=March 30, 2010|via=Flickr|access-date=26 February 2020|archive-date=27 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627051750/https://www.flickr.com/photos/alimaclaurin/4477167884/|url-status=live}}</ref> performed by theatre company New Peckham Varieties at The Magic Eye Theatre, Peckham and at the ICA, London (2006); and the radio series, ''Steven Appleby’s Normal Life'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/radio-programme/e/h4dzt/steven-applebys-normal-life-episode-guide/|title=Steven Appleby's Normal Life Series and Episode Guides &#124; TV from RadioTimes|website=Radio Times|access-date=26 February 2020|archive-date=26 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226051649/https://www.radiotimes.com/radio-programme/e/h4dzt/steven-applebys-normal-life-episode-guide/|url-status=live}}</ref> which ran for two series and a Christmas special on BBC Radio 4 from 2001 to 2004.

Since 2007 Appleby has collaborated with Linda McCarthy (of Tiny Elephants Ltd)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tinyelephants.co.uk/contact/|title=Contact – Tiny Elephants|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=15 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115193334/http://www.tinyelephants.co.uk/contact/|url-status=live}}</ref> on a series of stop motion animated films based on her eccentric country house cartoon strip ''Small Birds Singing''. A new ''Small Birds Singing'' short film, ''Bob Bobbin and the Christmas Stocking'', is currently{{when|date=December 2022}} in production. They also collaborated, in 2011, on a looped gallery piece entitled ''A Small Repetition of Myself'' in which a puppet Steven Appleby thinks, draws, discards, then starts over – forever.

Appleby has had numerous solo exhibitions of paintings, prints and ceramics, including Islands (2011) at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scottish-gallery.co.uk/images/exhibitions/Scottish_Gallery_Steven_Appleby_card.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-11-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115143112/http://www.scottish-gallery.co.uk/images/exhibitions/Scottish_Gallery_Steven_Appleby_card.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-15 }}</ref> and Tell Me All Your Secrets And I Will Put Them In My Drawings (2005), Icebergs (2008) and REAL | UNREAL (2016) at ArteArtesania, Soller, Mallorca.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://freizeit.mallorcazeitung.es/agenda/noticias/nws-534822-steven-appleby-feine-striche-fuer-eine-absurde-welt.html|title=Steven Appleby: feine Striche für eine absurde Welt|first=Mallorca|last=Zeitung|website=freizeit.mallorcazeitung.es|access-date=26 February 2020|archive-date=26 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226051651/https://freizeit.mallorcazeitung.es/agenda/noticias/nws-534822-steven-appleby-feine-striche-fuer-eine-absurde-welt.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Appleby spent 2013 as the artist appointed to create all the art for the Royal Brompton Hospital’s new Centre for Sleep<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rbhh-specialistcare.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Sleep-centre-booklet-4.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.rbhh-specialistcare.co.uk |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115132943/http://www.rbhh-specialistcare.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Sleep-centre-booklet-4.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As part of this project she made approximately seventy drawings and paintings, including a large glass screen,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://andrewmoor.co.uk/public_buildings_brompton.html |title=Architectural glass artist artworks &#124; The Royal Brompton hospital, London SW3 |publisher=Andrewmoor.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2020-02-26 |archive-date=15 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115133344/http://andrewmoor.co.uk/public_buildings_brompton.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ‘sleep maps’ painted directly onto the walls, and a book, ''Into Sleep'', to celebrate the completion of the work. She is currently working on a new sleep commission for the hospital.

Her images of rockets feature on the Pixies album sleeve, ''[[Trompe Le Monde]]'', and in 2014 she produced over 100 drawings for ''The Good Inn'', a novel by Pixies frontman Black Francis & writer Josh Frank, which was launched with events in New York and at The [[British Library]], London.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/04/the-good-inn-by-black-francis-josh-frank-steven-appleby-review "The Good Inn by Black Francis and Josh Frank with drawings by Steven Appleby review"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524062213/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/04/the-good-inn-by-black-francis-josh-frank-steven-appleby-review |date=24 May 2024 }}, ''The Guardian'', 4 July 2014.</ref>

In March 2016 Appleby was one of five artists invited to take part in a residency at The Carlton Arms Hotel, New York,<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://carltonarms.com/if-these-walls-talk-mad-meanderings-carlton-arms-hotel/|title=IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Mad Meanderings Through The Carlton Arms Hotel. -|date=March 12, 2016|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=15 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115141535/http://carltonarms.com/if-these-walls-talk-mad-meanderings-carlton-arms-hotel/|url-status=live}}</ref> where she spent a month painting a mural on the walls and in the bathroom of room 9a. Regarding the experience, she stated, "I’ve never stayed anywhere as wonderful and amazing as the Carlton Arms.  Every inch of every wall is a work of art.  And now I can die happy because they asked me to paint a room."<ref name=":0" />