Adrienne Geoghegan is a Dublin-born freelance illustrator, and children’s writer. She studied illustration at Kingston University, London, and graduated from there in 1993, with a first class BA honours degree. Adrienne quickly established a career for herself in London, where she was, and remains to be, represented by Eunice McMullan, Literary Agent for Children’s Picture Books.
After college, Adrienne spent a further year and a half in London, where she worked for, amongst others, The Guardian, The Economist, Routledge Publications, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, Oxford University Press, Longman Educational, and Frances Lincoln Children’s Books.
Adrienne has been exhibiting her work since the early nineties in both London and Dublin. Her 2000 solo show, in Tosca, Suffolk Street, Dublin 2, ‘This Bockaddy Life,’ spanned almost ten years of her international career in editorial and publishing illustration. Her Dublin based client list has included The Irish Times, Smurfit Publications, Blackwater Press, Mercier Press, McConnells Advertising, McCann Ericson Advertising, Business and Finance, Trocaire, Atomic Advertising, Draiocht, Magill and Habitat.
Adrienne has also worked on a major TV advertising campaign with McConnells Advertising for Jacobs Biscuits, where her two characters ‘Nanny Needles’ and ‘Seymour’ from her award winning children’s book ‘Dogs Don’t Wear Glasses’ were animated for the series for three years in the late nineties.
Adrienne has written and illustrated numerous picture books for children. Her latest illustration project ‘Fancy That’, was published by Frances Lincoln, London, July 2005. It was short-listed for the Bisto Award for its illustrations in May 2006.
Adrienne has been a member of the Illustrators Guild of Ireland (IGI) since 1999, and Children’s Books Ireland (CBI).
