Friday, 22 June 2012

Camberwell Illustration show private view

busy busy busy!


Brigid Deacon :)

Mirandas animaltastic wallpaper and chair design

 Charlene and Katies massive mouth! 'Playology' - exploration of the human digestive system

Vicky Wilmott with her tent and shadow puppet animation

Sunday, 17 June 2012

Degree show at Camberwell

Here's the details

Here's my final project

And here is my art to be sold in the Illustration shop.

Please come


Skateboard Religion Board Graphic


Here is the board graphic I have done for Skateboard Religion, out very soon!
In fact, if you order from http://skateboardreligion.bigcartel.com/ now, you'll be able to get it at a discount price. 
Failing that, Parlour skate shop will be stocking the boards
Or, you could holler up Nik Jones or myself if you want a board.


Stu Smith, Sam Smith and Joel Dowuona


 Just a few portraits I did for  the Skateboard Religion board graphic

Sunday, 6 May 2012

It's live... Camberwell illustration website







The super amazing Grace Helmer, Daniel Clarke and Kraggy have put together this aaaaamazing website showcasing all of the radtastic work made by Camberwell illustration third years. This website coincides with our external degree show to be held at Red Gallery in July, more details to follow, but in the mean time.... please take a gander through our collective cyber portfolio :) http://mixedspecial.com/

PS As you can imagine, I've been working super hard, so have had no time for internet promotion and propaganda... more soon... I promise!

Monday, 26 March 2012

Papergirl Birmingham

I'm exhibiting in this...



'Papergirl is a global project that aims to open the art world into the urban streets of everyday life. It is an intervention seeking to surprise people and to heartily upturn the notable predictability of day to day life.'

'The concept begins with an open call for art, welcoming anyone creatively minded to submit their drawings, paintings, screen prints, photographs, textiles, stickers, poems, zines… anything that can be rolled up and transported with ease.'

'Art is collected, exhibited, and then distributed on mass to an unsuspecting public, via an atmospheric array of honkingly exuberant and ravishingly roadworthy Brummies on bicycles.'

http://papergirlbirmingham.tumblr.com/

COME TO THE SHOW!
APRIL 2nd - 27th, @48Sheet, The Mailbox, Wharfside, Birmingham


Some artwork I'm mailing up...


Peepshow Collective's museum of Objects and Origins


Museum


Peepshowers at their museum shop

Alongside other Camberwell students, I was fortunate to be asked by my second year tutor, Luke Best, to help out at Pick Me Up graphic arts fair with the running of the 'Museum of Objects and Origins,' a exhibition space curated by the Peepshow Collective.

'The museum of Objects and Origins is a collection of artefacts including drawings, objects, prints and costumes. Exhibition items from an invented past, the collection is also a living, growing display as themed workshops create new works to fill the cabinets.'

http://peepshow.org.uk/moo/









Peepshow are a group of artists formed to support and work with each other in the forms of illustration, animation and art direction. Peepshow are Chrissie Macdonald, Luke Best, Andrew Rae, Lucy Vigrass, Jenny Bowers, Miles Donovan, Pete Mellor, Marie O’Connor, Elliot Thoburn and Spencer Wilson.



Printing workshop at weekend






I've done two days so far and two more days to go and I'm stoked to be a part of this. Thank you Peepshow

http://www.peepshow.org.uk

Friday, 23 March 2012

Girls Get Busy zine contribution


Risograph print



The original black and white drawing of Lovenskate's Lucy Adams is in the latest Girls Get Busy zine. Thanks to Beth Siveyer for asking me to contribute.

Check out the Girls Get Busy blog here and get your copy of the zine!
http://girlsgetbusyzine.tumblr.com/

Lurker



Portrait of Stockwell lurkal (lurker-local), DIY skatespot enthusiast and all round awesome guy, Adam Johns.

http://johnser.blogspot.co.uk/

Fahrenheit 451 Illustration

'Frightening in its implications... Mr Bradbury's account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.' -The New York Times



Here is an illustration I did of the following caption from Ray Bradbury's distopian Science Fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451.





'The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.'

'Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realised what he had to do... '

Dedicated followers of fashion read this and weep

Friday, 17 February 2012

Big Headed Snow in Whitstable

So, hand in over last week, I caught a train down to Whitstable to see the last day of the Big Headed show and to meet Mat and Ed for a skate. This was the view from the skatepark...


...and this was the view looking into the bowl! Mat inspecting if it was alright to (ice) skate, snow joke!


Overview of the show


Rich de Courcy



Tendai (spelling?)



Pats totem poles



My shizz


Mat and Ed




Dan Singer


Brigid Deacon



Oh and I got a tattoo of Dan's skateboard. Thanks for inking me up Mat!

Pat on the back to Pat and Rich for the show, it was raaaaad! So stoked to be a part of it and so glad I got down to see it...ven if I was roped in to helping take it down!
Well done to everybody involved! :)

Monday, 13 February 2012

New Ink (Margaret Kilgallen)







After writing my dissertation on zines, punk, riot grrrl and feminism, I found myself booking myself a tattoo of a Margaret Kilgallen drawing. Although, not looked at or even mentioned in my dissertation, Margaret Kilgallen is of huge importance and influence to me, both as an artist and as a woman. For those of you who don't know, she was an artist who believed in the touch of the human hand. All those beautifully crafted handmade shop signs that she so frequently saw inspired her greatly, and influenced the way she painted herself. She made many paintings of things including women surfing/skating, trees, nature, small shops, people, faces and hand made typography - howver 'printed' it looked, it was all done by her fingertips! (and a paintbrush!)











She painted everywhere: paper, canvas, wood, walls inside, walls outside, trains, cars, skateboards, cd covers....







She fell pregnant in 2001 and at the same time found out she had cancer. To save her baby, she refused chemotherepy and tragically passed away 2 weeks after giving birth to her child.


She will live on through her work. RIP Margaret.


Saturday, 4 February 2012

My 'Big Headed' contributions







From what I head, the Big Headed show opening night was a massive success. Unfortunately I couldn't make it, but will be heading down to Whitstable on it's last day, weather permitting! If you can, please go, it's a rad show. Above are two of my images in the show.