HLD TGHT

Here's a sneaky peak at a sample I've been working on for a collaboration between myself and Lois Macdonald for HLD TGHT (hldtght.co.uk).

Well, I say sample, but maybe a sample isn't a sample once it's consumed your dining room table. How we'll get it out of my house is still to be determined, but come the exhibition opening on the 17th December you can see how it'll all take shape in our post space age interactive installation.

more updates to follow!

Panoply!

Photo courtesy of TXLW
photo courtesy of Sanna Helena Berger

Mariel and I did an interview for TOURIST MAGAZINE, which includes a video of the performance and some lovely snaps of us stressing out

something + nothing + everything

A second collaboration with Rebecca Maeve Manley for

Fred Aldous, Lever Street, M1 1LW

RHIZOMATIC | London

Departure Gallery
5-6 Boeing Way, Brent Road
Southall, West London.

Open until 12 November by appointment only.

'tea leaf'

I'm collaborating with the talented Rebecca Maeve Manley on a window display for Fred Aldous, in Manchester's Northern Quarter, which is part of the Free For Arts Festival 2010. She's an inspired designer|art director and great influence on me... so much so that I've stolen her favoured mirror image trick to play around with some samples in my studio at The Grange. (sorry Rebecca)

Check out our 'Something and Nothing and Everything' window display from 1-8 October 2010

You can see our profile and more information about Something and Nothing and Everything on the Free For Arts Festival website.

limited edition Mill24 t-shirts

we've get a few t-shirts left from the Mill24 2010 exhibitions (see Lois cranking 'em out, above). Each t-shirt is hand printed and individually numbered, available in small, medium, and large.

T-shirts are £10 each. All proceeds from these tees go to the artists involved in the exhibitions.

go HERE to order yours today!

Mill24

Mill24 has drawn to a close. Our final 24-hour installment happened on the 29th/30th May. You can see all the info about it here and some of my photos from April's show here. We're still in the process of sorting through May's documentation, so check back for more films and stills.

Mill24 has been an amazing opportunity as a first time curatorial project. Helen, Lois and I have been invited to stay on at Islington Mill, and we're talking about turning Mill24 into an annual event.

I thought I'd take a moment while catching my breath to show and tell the design work I did for all of the show's promotional material.


April's flier
May's Flier

Exhibition catalogue - separate editions for April and May

In addition to a catalogue with interpretive text, we gave visitors a map/timetable when they entered the show. This folded down to a handy A5 pamphlet for easy reference.

I hand screen printed all of the fold out maps and catalogue covers at one69a.
This saved us a lot of cash, and made both of these items into 'collectables.' I like spending time with them guys, and being involved in the process of physically manifesting the show, as opposed to just planning and emailing.

P.S. excuse my stumpy, unphotogenic fingers. Must remember to hire a hand model next time.

00:00 - 08:00 ((welcome to our paper world))

On Sunday 30th May Rebecca Manley and I collaborated for the first time during the wee hours of Mill24. We're amazed by what can be achieved by two sleep deprived people brandishing craft knives while balancing dunce caps on their heads. We're looking forward to collaborating again soon, who knows what we're capable of during normal waking hours.

Mill24 Press

HERE

NEW MANCHESTER - exhibition opens FRIDAY

I'll be exhibiting here alongside some of Manchester's FRESHEST talent. Come see and buy limited edition hand screen-printed posters, eat some good food, and hang out with the good folks at one69a studio.

Islington Mill
James Street (off Oldfield Road)
Salford
M3 5HW

show at The Willesden Green Gallery, London

I'll be exhibiting some drawings at the Willesden Green Gallery (closest tube station is Willesden Green).
The show is about Man's relationship with technology, and features work by ten artists working in a variety of media:
Paul Abbott
Anna Beam
Teodora Buba
Jeannelise Edelsten
Susan Eyre
Amelie Genstine-Charlton
Jane Hill
Tamar Lev-On
Luke Mitchell
Elspeth Ryder

This show is running alongside Minimalism Massimo, in the main gallery. This show features work by, amoung others, Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, world famous Joseph Beuys, Carl Andre, John Baldessari, John Latham, Jenny Holzer and James Ireland.

These shows are on until 4th February, come on down!

Opening Next Week! Postcards From Dystopia at the Nolias Gallery

I'll be in this group show down in London, come along to the opening on Dec 3rd if you can!

The work I'm showing (pictured, 1 of 3) illustrates a take on the 'multi-model-approach' used originally in sub-atomic physics to show that no one answer alone is correct, and it was exploited also by Robert Anton Wilson in his conspiracy theories surrounding the Illuminati. We're damned because of the state of politics. We are damned because we're sinners, and we're damned because the environment is. A lot of times in Science Fiction we're also screwed because extra terrestrials seem to have an inbuilt hatred for human kind. And let's not forget conspiracy theories.

My postcards for the exhibition show three stages of dystopia where the populous is 'taken for a ride' but can't determine why it's all going wrong. First their confidence in the state is built up by gifts of wealth and power from a benefactor, while underhandedly everything that supports life is taken away to fuel the cities. But maybe those crop circles that destroyed the farms and fires that burned the houses really the fault of aliens trying to destroy humanity? When all is said and done and they're left with nothing, yet the cities are still standing protected, they think that maybe this has really all been going as St. John prophesied. There's nothing to do but sit in the ash and wait for the fourth rider to come and burn down that false idol of benefactor and take them to heaven.

UNDERCOVER

Apologies for the dark images, although there's spotlights on the work it was difficult to get good photos. The show at Nexus Art Cafe is on until 3rd January, so come on down!

YES IT IS at ANTIFREEZE

this is a bit of delayed update.
What a funny day this turned out to be, man oh man. Let's call it a 'learning experience'. On the plus side though, we got to share our stall with the lovely folks from Camp Yellow!
So here's some shots of the diorama that I made. we were lucky they weren't as easily blown over as the marquees.

almost forgot the end of it!

Some photos of the finished degree show piece.
These are pretty crappy. When my folks came to see the show my dad took some good photos, so I'll post those when he gets back from their road trip.

independence Day Art Car Boot Sale

I'll be celebrating this Independence Day with the Brits, that is celebrating the day they finally got rid of us Yanks. I'll be exhibiting in ANTIFREEZE at the CHIPS building in Ancoats, Manchester alongside three great women. Once again under the name YES IT IS, Georgina Sullivan, Lora Avedian, Laura Gee and I will be selling original drawings and prints, as well as exhibiting handmade dioramas of hypothetical installations. come on down and discover what the hell an art car boot sale entails.
Take a look at our statement on the Antifreeze blog:

http://antifreeze2009.blogspot.com/2009/06/yes-it-is.html

and here's more info about the event:

Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM) launches its inaugural project Trade City; a dynamic, international exhibition in Will Alsop's iconic CHIPS building, supported by Arts Council England and Urban Splash and in conjunction with Manchester International Festival 2009. Introducing a number of Manchester and UK premieres and stimulating new commissions from regional and international contemporary artists, Trade City has generated new forms of exchange across the city's contemporary art scene.

As part of Trade City, partner organisation Contents May Vary presents ANTIFREEZE, Manchester's very first art car boot fair, which sees over sixty artists and artist-run projects display work in car-boots as an alternative exhibition space. ANTIFREEZE is about the high-end art market delivered within the format of low-end trade. It is the grass-roots answer to hugely commercial art fairs allowing independent and non-commercial practitioners to explore ideas of value, exchange and independence with artists and artist-led organisations responding to the physical, social, economical, geographical and literal situation.

Taking in sculpture, printing, drawing, video, performance, installation, photography and collage, Contents May Vary’s ANTIFREEZE offers extreme clowning, trespassed pictures, Nazi poster art, Kun(S)t stylings, Tranny Bingo, naff music, Regal defacement, automobiliart, a gift shop, zines, hunting women, masked men from the woods, black dogs, Kipling, turd polishing, Mainlining (Intercity), dogs in hot cars, Nail art (modern), vernacular diamonds and bread, neatly packaged in the car park of a building lifeless without art.

Manchester's first art car boot fair will be a stroll through the embodied thoughts of over 60 artists from across the UK and beyond, who through no fault of their own have been put in a place beneath and above many others in the art industry. We have given them a platform to vent their airs and graces, woes and praises, present their skills and collections, to succeed and fail, to make money and lose faith, to spend hours in traffic getting here and minutes setting up their work without our help, just so people they don't know can spend seconds judging them on it.

tuesday

monday,nearly wednesday.

readysteadygo

here's a few snapshots of the wall collage I'm slowly installing. Three years of embroidery will all be over come Wednesday, so I'm taking my time and trying to savor these last few days. Besides, the final installation of work is always my favourite part of a project.
I haven't measured the space yet. It's bloody large though, I can tell you that much. Intimidating at first but I'm slowly getting accustomed to it.