'Electric Mick / London Art Fair'

     Jealous Gallery will be showing a selection of my Artists Proofs at the London Art Fair, Islington.  

For the full reveal come down, free tickets available here.. 

'A BIGger Mick'

 

        Test ideas for 'Mick', printed on Somerset hot pressed Paper, 410 gsm  / 1524mm x 1025mm

Spending my first day back to work in the fine company of Jealous Print Studio could remain to be my most favourite creative day of twenty fourteen, even by the end of the year.  Appointed Danny Augustine, (currently in his final year at the Royal College of Art) as my personal printer (wow!) we set about making an Edition of 'Mick', in pretty off the scale proportions.  Definitely a first for me. United in our unorthodox approach to screen printing, day one's efforts resulted in a stack of brightly coloured, multi compositional versions of the iconic Mr Jagger. Tomorrow we continue.  Once the edition is set the resulting prints will be exhibited at this years 'London Art Fair', Islington.
Click here for more information & a complimentary ticket.

'Wrapping up.. '

For a person who isn't overly festive I always enjoy the downward slope of the end of a year and the revelry that then ensues.  My enthusiasm lies as much within its numerical connotations as the celebratory ones.. the first day of the first month of a fresh year always feels strangely cathartic. (Naturally these numbers need to be digested with a few too many glasses of something.. )

Fellow artist Sophie Smallhorn surpassed herself once again with her Christmas card and a recently commissioned mobile piece for Fourth Floor salon. The card is a jarring pink & red composition which I couldn't wait to pop up, smack bang above the citrusy yellow cube print of a few years previous.  Enjoy her newly updated website here.

Above is a mountain refuge constructed from recycled materials, designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic. I'm not sure if its the daffodil yellow frame work encapsulating it's huge glass walls or the boxy almost formal windows along one side that delight me more.  Or just all that gorgeous yellow..  to inhabit a construction like this will be on my resolution list for many years to come for sure.

'Show Down'

It was a busy final day at Stourspace yesterday which left quite an impressive visitors list, with folk   travelling from as far Oxford.. !  James & I dismantled our wares this morning & bid our farewells with the agreement that 'Press&Pull 3' would happen sooner rather than in 2018, marking the 5 years that have passed since our original 'Press&Pull' Show.. #youheardithearfirst

     BIG thanks to Ren & Jack of 'Threefold Architects' for their Press & Pull2 purchase & allowing me

     free rein on their framing, beautifully constructed at S'Graffiti's, Stoke Newington N16.

Preview Night

  A BIG thank you to everybody that made the big schlep East.. very much appreciated..

 

All photographs by Stourspace.

'New prints at Stour Space from Nov 7th - Dec 2nd'

Press&Pull 2 at Stour Space / Open everyday / Until December 2nd 2013.