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!

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

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

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! :)

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.

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.

This music video is, like, the best video ever!

This animation is awesome! Sketchy and chaotic and trippy and BLERRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!

Big Headed show

Got some stuff in this. Thanks Pat and Rich :)

http://spatthat.blogspot.com/

http://rich-de-courcy.blogspot.com/

Model People

Some pictures I drew for my housemates over the Christmas holiday, who are model people :)

'In Stock' exhibition and 'Stockwell Winter Games'

Charlie, Pat (Attack) and myself

The second 'Out of Stockwell' project, the 'In Stock' exhibition and Stockwell Winter Games happend a few weeks ago. I have been part of the organising committee and ran a little Stall selling zines and t-shirts made by various Stockwell locals. Unfortunately, due to the stress of helping organise it and setting up shop, I did a pretty bad job of advertising it, however people still came and bought stuff. Big sellers were Lovenskate tees, Foxspot tees, Skateboard Religion hats, Jon Horner's skate comics and of course, Brash zine :)


I guess this little stall was an experiment and with the continual development of Out of Stockwell, I hope to run a 'pop up' shop whenever there is an 'Out of Stockwell' event.
Check out http://brashzine.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-stock-exhibition-and-stockwell.html for more.

Women Weeping

Inky Ideas

IN STOCK

Skate Jam in the daytime, show in the evening. It's at the Queens Head, a pub just a one minute skate away from Stockwell Skatepark. Please come! It'll be rad :)

You Cannot Be Serious?

my housematw and regular Brash contributor has got his own solo show! Based on 80's tennis stars, he will be performing a game of invisible tennis at the Kennington Park Business Centre on 2nd December. Please come along :)