‘E’ is my letter for the ‘Forming Words’ 4 day exhibition at the Manchester Craft and Design Centre which opens today until this Sunday as part of the Manchester Weekender. To illustrate my letter I drew an Echidna, shaping his body into a ‘E’. What a wonderful creature from Australia with its many long spines and pink sticky tongue!
The image is available to buy as a digital print. Get in touch if you are interested!
My Lantern is made of cosmic coloured fabiano paper with a hand cut design on it. Looks great with a light in it. For photos from the other artists in the exhibition go here..
I have recently customised a La Sardina DIY Lomography camera which will be exhibited at the Lomography Gallery Store East London on Thursday 17th January.
My camera will be exhibited alongside Kid Acne, Felt Misstress, Malarky, Pete Fowler, Supermundane, Gemma Correll, Donna Wilson and Chris Howker to name a few ace creatives!
My approach to the camera for resourceful and as per usual a bit daft, I saw the La Sardina camera as a bird.. that big flash had to be a head right…?
Using the little wooden bits you get when you buy pre made canvasses (due to my hording nature I had a tin box full) as my feathers I figured out the best way to present them onto the camera, then painted and glued them on.
I then didn’t like what i did and started again, so the photos to see here are the initial attempt and the finish product looks something similar, if not better. The back is painted all over and I also customised the coloured flash parts for different head pieces.
There will be free beers provided by Saint Beer So let them know how much you enjoy their brew at @EnjoySaint
Keep up to date with the exhibitions deets with #letsplaysardines
And HERE BEEEE the link on the lomography website.
Thanks to Lomography for asking me to do this, it was so much fun and a nice start to 2013!
I spent 4 days working with cardboard inside the Bench Self Made gallery. I wanted to play around with the space and have fun with a material i don’t use that often and so i created some trees and a remote control cardboard owl complete with screen printed feathers.
The work was displayed alongside cardboard queen Lottie Smith, Krek, Moot, TeaOne and Muka. Everybody’s work was completely different to the others, making it an interesting show and showcasing the usability of cardboard. I think I enjoyed the making part with other people around the best bit.. free booze is free booze.
Thanks to Moot for organising the exhibition and Alistar from Bench for letting us get into the space and being generally awesome.
Common Ground Collective undertook a 2 week residency at Rogue’s Project Space The other artists in the collective are Elizabeth Wewiora Simon Jones Jay Yung Tracey Eastham and Claire Tindale.
I wanted to cultivate something in the space and having been playing around with the idea of a ‘Cressage’ for a while. It is how it sounds.. a message written in cress! Whilst discussing with Wewiora my idea she said the simple comment of “it has potentional” And that was it! Cress doesn’t take that long to cultivate and essentially has potentional for growth within the restricted time and space. It started to sprout almost immediately from its pulped paper base and flourished on the Monday, to dry up and die on the following Monday.
More cressages to follow.
Utilising the materials that were in the space I also created a ‘rolling hill’ for which Claire’s mini wooden shed could perch on.
Thanks to Elizabeth Wewiora for the photographs.
For more information about the collective and the project go Here
Last night was the opening ‘Urban Renewal’ an exhibition brought together by the guys from Bert Agency. The show focused on Ben Peppers new sun dial sculpture and prints on the ground floor, on the second floor was my 2 prints alongside other creatives Mr Hass, Stanley Chow, Matt Ferres, Andrew Brooks, James O’Connell too name a few. Very nice opening with all proceeds from the artwork going towards Christies NHS Trust.
My artwork is available in A3 and 50 x 70cm print format.
Please contact events@bertagency.co.uk if you would like to buy the above images.
Some nicely printed postcards from the exhibition, doesn’t the owl look gooood!
I’ve been asked by Manchester based Creative Marketing Agency Bert to create some artwork for their exhibition opening on Wednesday (13th) This includes the first preview of Ben Peppers Salford sculpture ‘Time of a Generation’
My 2 prints are available to buy on the evening and all proceeds go to The Christie NHS Trust.
If you would like to come the event as it is invite only send me a holla: eyup@thecolouringbox.co.uk by no later than 2pm on Wednesday.
Below are some sneaky peaks…
Great new exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester called Dark Matters, bringing together works from ten internationally acclaimed contemporary artists who engage with the idea of surrounding shadow, darkness and illusion.
This is Barnaby Hosking.
