‘A hug runs all the way through this’: How to Catch a Star, based on the Oliver Jeffers book, returns to the Ark
This puppet show, which has been a huge hit for Branar, draws similar reactions from children all over the world
Oliver Jeffers
Artist and author
‘Over a million kids have come here’: 30 years of The Ark children’s cultural centre
Creative director Aideen Howard says facility remains unique on the international stage
Oliver Jeffers: ‘Culturally I feel Irish but I normally skirt around the question: where are you from?’
The children’s author, who grew up Catholic in Belfast, on complicated identities and how his marriage to a Protestant might have been trickier 10 years earlier
Oliver Jeffers: ‘It didn’t really occur to English people that Northern Ireland was British’
The picture book artist on his latest work, Brexit and living in Belfast versus Brooklyn
Molecules, metaphors and the place of science in culture
One is contained within the other, but how does that manifest itself?
Oliver Jeffers shrinks the solar system down to a 10km walking trail
The writer and artist explains his ambitious project to humanise our experience of the universe
If you build it, they will come: creating a new online children’s book festival
Award-winning children’s writer Sarah Webb explains the how and why of WonderFest
Oliver Jeffers: ‘I’ve got my wife’s bite marks tattooed on my finger’
The Belfast writer’s latest book, which features one of his favourite tattoos, is about changing the world through whimsical drawings and verse
The Irish Times view on the crisis in the arts: a fog of anxiety
Our artists and performers are in the front line of the Covid-19-induced economic crisis
A storm, a nap and a 200-year-old printing press: How Oliver Jeffers makes a book
The bestselling children’s author and illustrator on how The Fate of Fausto came into being
‘I have turned to the healing power of art from my sickbed’
Government investment in the arts should be viewed as more than just ‘nice to have’
Is this a golden age for children’s theatre? Oh, yes, it is
Work made for children used to be rare, but there's now a rich bounty of shows
John Boyne’s answer to breaking up: Call in the decorator
The best-selling author’s house was full of memories; interior designer Caroline Flannery gave it a whole new vibe
Oliver Jeffers: ‘I keep coming back to this idea of the stoic man’
The artist's latest picture book is about the way the fantasy worlds of children’s books create the fabric of the grown-up mind. He talks masculinity, maths and making art
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