FRANCESCO CICCOLELLA



Selected work for THE GUARDIAN.

UNBECOMING BRITISH

Cover and illustration on becoming stateless, the experience of exile, and its impact on identity.

Art Direction: Bruno Haward

THE PARANOID FANTASY BEHIND BREXIT

Illustration for a piece exploring the imagined threats and deep anxieties behind Britain’s departure from the EU.

Art Direction: Chris Clarke

FIRST PERSON: HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR

Cover illustration for a feature about memoir writing and how written drafts reveal real lives.

Art Direction: Bruno Haward

PARTNERS IN CRIME

Cover illustration for a Guardian Review essay on how long-running crime authors and their creations blur into one another over time.

Art Direction: Bruno Haward

BLURRED BY THE CURE

Illustration for a feature in the Guardian’s Saturday magazine on the complex trade-off between ADHD medication’s benefits and its unsettling side effects.

Art Direction: Maggie Murphy

DRAWN FROM LIFE

Cover illustration for a story on the rise of autofiction and how novelists are using their own life stories to create fiction.

Art Direction: Bruno Haward

Selected illustrations for the GUARDIAN WEEKEND MAGAZINE:

  1. Search me: why did I go looking for my birth mother online?
  2. How to stay happy when the news is bad
  3. ‘It hits you over the head’: can I survive my midlife crisis?
  4. Will You Marry Us, Mate? Why couples are choosing friends to conduct their wedding.
  5. ‘It’s nothing like a broken leg’: why I’m done with the mental health conversation

Art Direction: Maggie Murphy

BRAIN WAVES

Cover and illustration for a story on how Booker-shortlisted authors like Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Bernardine Evaristo find their inspiration.

Art Direction: Bruno Haward

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