About
Heather Savage is a London-based illustrator, director, curator, educator and researcher. Her work is shaped by her queer, working-class background and explores folklore, humour, DIY culture and queer joy across illustration, film, event-making and education.
She works through a socially engaged, community-led practice, facilitating projects around storytelling, local folklore and collective memory. Rooted in activism, her work challenges craft-based sexism through DIY methods, reclaiming and revaluing making as a site of resistance.
Play and experimentation are central to her process. Working through method illustration, she uses embodied and performative approaches such as inhabiting a modern witch placing a hex on Thatcher in response to Section 28, carving spells into ceramics, or using cut-up poetry to generate protest rituals.
She understands illustration as a form of event-making, critical education and community facilitation.
Clients Include:
- Southbank Centre
- Getdown Services
- Breakfast Records
- Left Cultures
- The Island Bristol
- Peckham Levels
- g39
- UAL Video
...And more!