Christine Roche


Christine Roche is a French-Canadian illustrator, cartoonist, teacher and film-maker who lives and works in London. Her work has appeared in several books, magazines, and national newspapers. She is currently a painter.

Biography

Christine Roche has illustrated many books, both for children and adults, and worked for a number of leading publishers. She has produced animated films for Channel 4 and UNICEF, and lectured in various colleges including the London College of Communication, the Royal College of Art and the National Institute of Design in India.
Roche cartooned for the publication Spare Rib before co-founding and self-publishing Sourcream in 1979 with Jo Nesbitt, Liz Mackie and Lesley Ruda. More underground British women cartoonists became involved in Sourcream No. 2, which was published in 1981 by the Sheba Feminist Press in paperback.
Roche joined a number of collectives, including the Kids Book Group, and the Hackney Flashers collective of feminist photographers that started in the 1970s and produced exhibitions on "Women at Work" and "Who's Holding the Baby?".
She is author of I'm Not a Feminist But... which she made into an animated film with Marjut Rimminen.
She also co-directed the short animated films The Stain viewable at the and Someone Must Be Trusted.
In addition, she designed the characters in the children's television cartoon series Treasure
Her work appears in the anthology Funny Girls – Cartooning for Equality edited by Diane Atkinson, and The Inking Woman: 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain, edited by Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate.

As author

I'm Not a Feminist But... – Virago Press Ltd :

As illustrator

How We Play – Viking Children's Books : Sourcream – Sheba Feminist Publishers : ASIN B000U0OH90Sweet Freedom: Struggle for Women's Liberation – Picador : A Women's History of Sex – Pandora Press : Abigail at the Beach – Collins : Abigail Goes Visiting – Collins : Triplets – Viking Press : Pregnancy Book – Health Education Authority : The Universe for Beginners – Icon Books Ltd : Give Your Baby a Head Start: How to Kick the Smoking Habit – Health Education Authority : Women's Health Guide – Health Education Authority :The Young Person's Guide to Saving the Planet – Chivers Press : So Young, So Sad, So Listen – Gaskell : Pregnancy, Birth and the First Five Years – Health Education Authority : Pregnancy Book: A Complete Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and the First Few Weeks with a New Baby – Health Education Authority : What Treasure Did Next – Virago Press Ltd : Living with a Stranger – Gaskell : Religion – Hodder Children's Books : ISBN 978-0-340-66719-4Nuclear Power – Hodder Children's Books : Drugs Centre Stage – volume one – LittleOctopus Publishing : Drugs Centre Stage – volume two – LittleOctopus Publishing : Introducing the Universe – Icon Books Ltd :

As painter

  • 2009: Morley Gallery
  • 2009: Cafe Gallery
  • 2010: Burgh House
  • 2011: West Eleven Gallery
  • 2011: Colour Gallery
  • 2012: St. Martins in the Field
  • 2012: Core Arts
  • 2012: LCP
  • 2014: St. Martins in the Field
  • 2015: Islington Arts Society
  • 2016: Islington Arts Society
  • 2016: National Open Art
  • 2017: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
  • 2017: National Open Art
  • 2017: Ply Gallery

Filmography