To produce Ugly, Melissa Kitty Jarram and Anna Ginsburg needed a lot of perseverance

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After the break at last month’s Nicer Tuesdays, Melissa Kitty Jarram, an illustrator and artist based in London treated us to a run-through of a recent film made alongside director Anna Ginsburg. Titled Ugly, it illustrates an eponymous poem by Warsan Shire in an intricate and movingly beautiful style that merges Melissa’s paintings and Anna’s animations. The journey to get there, however, was one of perseverance, as Melissa explained…

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