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Roger Kohn is a designer and author. He studied with Rowan Gillespie at York School of Art and is the Irish sculptor's biographer.〔(R, Kohn. ''Rowan Gillespie: Looking for Orion'', O'Brien Press, 2007 )〕 ==Education and career== Kohn was educated at Marton Hall Preparatory School and Pocklington School. After a year at York School of Art, he gained a first class honours degree in Graphic Design at Chelsea School of Art along with among others, Edward Bell (artist). At Chelsea, Kohn was taught by Edward Wright, Dennis Bailey and Susan Einzig and became friends with part-time tutor, the Scottish surrealist poet and musician Ivor Cutler.〔See ''Image:Ivor Cutler, 1973'' taken by the artist at Ivor's flat in North London.〕 Cutler's influence on Kohn was a subtle one, but can be seen in his art. In the words of the artist himself:
Kohn travelled extensively in Latin America (once declining a request from MI6 to return to Argentina on their behalf).〔(O'Brien Books )〕 He worked initially with the Diagram Group, a London-based cooperative group of designers (which included the brilliant avant-garde composer and musician, Cornelius Cardew), writers, artists and editors, led by Bruce Robertson and Bob Chapman, supplying visualised information to publishers in Britain and the United States; and was Art Editor on the definitive encyclopedia ''Musical Instruments of the World''.,〔(''Musical Instruments of the World'' )〕 which featured in Eduardo Paolozzi's 1985 "Lost Magic Kingdoms" exhibition at the Museum of Mankind in London. After a brief spell at the Hamlyn Publishing Group he became Art Editor at Octopus Books. In 1983 he left to set up his own design business and to pursue his interest in art and photography, visiting over 60 countries and establishing an extensive photographic library. Besides Ivor Cutler the influences on Kohn's writing and art are diverse:
He cites the imagery of album sleeve designer Cal Schenkel as perhaps his greatest visual influence. Having exhibited along with Vanilla Beer and Jane Jackson in the Art Attack exhibition at Cuts Gallery, Kensington, Kohn held his first one-man show, "Hung, Drawn and Slaughtered"〔(''Hung, Drawn and Slaughtered'' )〕 at the Zillah Bell Contemporary Art Gallery, Thirsk in October 2003. Described by Pru Farrier in the Stockton and Darlington Times (2003) in the following terms:
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