Izzie Klingels studied Fine Art at Chelsea and founded Lazy Eye shortly after graduating in 1993. Lazy Eye created films for numerous clubs and record labels including the Heavenly Social and toured worldwide with bands as diverse as Death in Vegas, The Aloof and Beth Orton. In 2002, Izzie co-founded Hey Ladies fanzine and began to illustrate around the same time. Her work has appeared in Dazed and Confused, Nylon, Elle, Carlos, Stand Off and Creative Review, and she has been featured in British Vogue. She has also been profiled in books including 'Hand to Eye' (Laurence King Publishing) a book on contemporary illustration, and the accompanying Magma exhibition.

WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY WORKING ON AND WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE REST OF 2006?
I've just finished an album cover for Garden, which is one of the current projects of Simon Lord from Simian. I’m currently directing a video project for Topshop and Topman, doing the sleeve art for the Ping Pong Bitches forthcoming album and making illustrations for an animated commercial. I'm also trying to find the time (and discipline) to keep working on a series of drawings that will eventually become my second solo exhibition (the first was at The Social in December 2005). At the moment I’m experimenting with technique, trying to think more about the way I draw rather than what I draw. My drawings are very labour intensive. I worked out that there are between 100,000 and half a million dots in each image. My ambition for 2006 is to pass the million mark.

ARE THERE ANY MUSICAL ARTISTS/BANDS YOU ARE A FAN OF AND WOULD LOVE TO WORK WITH?
If I could have been around to do something withThe Velvet Underground I could have died happy. At the moment I really like the new record by The Knife and I want to work with a new band called The Black Ghosts. I also want to do the sleeve for my 15 year old niece's band called The Lipstick Killers. Her name is Sophie and I've already drawn her (the girl in stars n' stripes). She's a very cool young lady. I just saw The Horrors and I think they are the most perfect looking band I’ve ever seen. Beauty such as theirs deserves to be photographed but I’d like to draw what they’re thinking about when they're dancing.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU COLLECT OBSESSIVELY? WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE THING YOU HAVE COLLECTED?
I don't really collect anything obsessively, but I do have a lot of books and shoes. I really like old Penguin books, especially the Penguin Classic series from the 60s. My favourite is a 60s edition of Iron in the Soul by Sartre. The cover is a detail of Picasso's The War and the book is about the point in the Second World War when France falls to the Nazis. It’s a brilliant book and a beautiful cover.

DO YOU HAVE ANY FAVOURITE PROJECTS YOU’VE WORKED ON OR CLIENTS YOU’VE WORKED WITH?
I recently designed some masks for Coco De Mer. They are basically masks for people to have sex in, which in itself is pretty cool. One is made of printed moulded leather and the other is screen printed, embroidered and beaded silk. It was amazing to see my drawings applied to something 3D and I really like the way the finished products look. I like to think that they’ve given some people a lot of pleasure.

WHO DO YOU SEE AS YOUR CONTEMPORARIES AND WHO DO YOU RATE?

Lizzie Finn, Nina Chakrabarti, Giovanna Cellini, Will Sweeney, Susumu Mukai, Fergadelic, Parra, David Foldvari and Cecilia Carlstedt are all illustrators that I respect and admire.

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