Katherine Quinn

 Katherine Quinn's intricate, decorative illustrations of Little Red Riding Hood reveal her love of the natural world. Katherine is an illustrator and designer based in New Zealand who creates patterns for commercial papers and textiles and has some beautiful children's books.

Urban Cake Lady II

                 Fig 1 (above), Fig 2 (below) Urban Cake Lady, Melbourne 

                                   Fig 3 (below) Urban Cake Lady

Urban Cake Lady's work if not featuring wolves features other wild and endangered animals. My interpretation of the conflict of human and wild animal in Red Riding Hood is now a metaphor for lost and endangered wilderness and the loss of our own links to wild and natural places. Urban Cake Lady explains her use of animals as:

"I've always loved natural, flowing, whimsical kind of things, so I guess it’s a real part of who I am. To me, they evoke feelings of calmness, and a bit of nostalgia … and I  like to think that I can stick up a quiet little moment,  that'll maybe make someone zone out from whatever might be going on around them." Urban Cake Lady

References

Fig 1: http://www.wallpapersonweb.com/image-137265.html
Fig 2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dgootshinz/5935252912/
Fig 3: https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrianakis/5190992434/

http://www.invurt.com/2010/11/26/interview-urban-cake-lady/

Urban Cake Lady I

                    Fig 1: Urban Cake Lady painting from exhibition at RTIST 2011

   Fig 2 and 3 (above and below) Graffiti from Melbourne by Urban Cake Lady

I have tried and failed to gain contact with Melbourne's adopted Kiwi, graffiti artist, Urban Cake Lady. But it is of course in the nature of graffiti artists, that they have to be elusive. Urban Cake Ladies most documented event, apart from her graffiti works, was a solo exhibition at Melbourne's RTIST in 2011.

"I actually work full time during the week, so I paint into the nights and weekends. I’m usually pretty wrecked at work, but I've pretty much got the painting routine down … take photos and sketch it up in a night, paint the stripes the next night, use the weekend to paint the rest and then start or finish a second painting – then paste!" Urban Cake Lady

Although 'Urban Cake Lady' makes no direct links in her interview with Invert to Red Riding Hood. The red hood of her principle character and her use of wolves in many of her works is a direct use of the iconography of this folk tale. The evolution of her images has been very interesting, I would have loved to be able to interview her myself.

References 

Fig 1: http://allthoseshapes.com/urban-cake-lady/
Fig 2: http://deansunshine.com/urban-cake-lady-melbourne-2010/
Fig 3: http://www.artboxdiary.com/2010_10_01_archive.html

https://vimeo.com/26796411
http://www.invurt.com/2010/11/26/interview-urban-cake-lady/