Celebrated artist and children’s author Oliver Jeffers
For a man who has tucked millions of children into bed with his stories, Oliver Jeffers has arrived back in Belfast carrying something far less soothing: a 15-year archive of disasters, mischief and beautifully controlled chaos.
The artist, who was born in Australia in 1977, raised in east Belfast and is now one of the world’s most recognisable children’s storytellers, has spent two decades moving between New York City and the rest of the world, building a career that stretches from picture books to major museum shows.