Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
a good thing...
george lamb's off... lauren laverne's in.
and i can start listening to 6music in the mornings again... :-)
and i can start listening to 6music in the mornings again... :-)
stuff i've been working on...
this one above was going to have an air ambulance in it - i even got sent some awesome reference by the heroic ianbee - but i couldn't get the composition to work and sadly ended up drawing a police 'copter instead... [sorry ian!]
[...the pencil roughs are always more satisfying to look at than the finished artwork...]
Friday, October 9, 2009
eddie argos - a true gentleman of pop
so, in my attempts to get contributors on board for this advent exhibition [did i mention that i'm curating an advent-themed show...?] i contacted a whole load of different artists and creatives - including a little personal wish list of people who i didn't really expect would reply, but thought were worth a punt - nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that.
so yesterday i got a very lovely email from edie argos, lead singer of art brut and glamchop [amongst others], apologetically and very politely declining the invitation to contribute to the show [he's off on tour to the states very soon]
eddie argos, you are a gent.
so yesterday i got a very lovely email from edie argos, lead singer of art brut and glamchop [amongst others], apologetically and very politely declining the invitation to contribute to the show [he's off on tour to the states very soon]
eddie argos, you are a gent.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
advent
more lloydy-love. here's the poster he's designed for the advent show.
the exhibition is getting excitingly, and frighteningly close now - but i finally have every theme allocated and am working with a local school on a project to involve them in the show, which is really cool.
please do go and have a look at the exhibition blog; leave a comment, tell your friends. it's going to be great...
the exhibition is getting excitingly, and frighteningly close now - but i finally have every theme allocated and am working with a local school on a project to involve them in the show, which is really cool.
please do go and have a look at the exhibition blog; leave a comment, tell your friends. it's going to be great...
Thursday, September 10, 2009
downloadable greenbelt 09 self portrait desktop wallpapers...
...[as seen below] are awaiting your attention at the gb visual arts flickr pages
big kudos to the redoubtable lloydy for scanning them all [over 350 of 'em!]
[see if you can spot my lads in this one...
...and have a read of this blogpost, which manages to explain very eloquently - and much better than i ever could - why greenbelt is such a great festival...]
big kudos to the redoubtable lloydy for scanning them all [over 350 of 'em!]
[see if you can spot my lads in this one...
...and have a read of this blogpost, which manages to explain very eloquently - and much better than i ever could - why greenbelt is such a great festival...]
Monday, September 7, 2009
more greenbelt stuff...
i've been meaning to post more about greenbelt, but to be honest i'm finding it a bit hard to do the festival justice...
there's so much that goes on there, and it's such a rich experience, and i'm probably not that great with words - it's kind of hard to communicate it adequately...
[i'll have a go though...]
one thing that i have noticed in a lot of the media coverage of the festival is the way that gene robinson's appearance has been made to sound very divisive. that certainly didn't seem to be the case on site, as at the festival itself there was very little aggro or visible difficulty around him or his talks.
in some reports there was a lot of talk about folks boycotting the festival because of his presence, but ticket sales and attendances were up on previous years, so if there were stay-away protesters they didn't make much of an impact...
this year we did the self-portrait thing again and it was just as popular as last time. there were more of us involved in running it this time, with a crack team of artists - mark, dave, simon, wanja and rich - supplementing the brilliant team of volunteers - ed and liz, deidre and dominic, dan and sara. we had about 350 draw-ers inover the weekend and they produced some really great drawings - it's really rewarding to see folk surprising themselves with their own work! we're hoping to get most of the drawings up on the greenbelt website as downloadable desktop wallpapers sometime soon.
i'll let you know if and when they're available for download, but in the meantime here's a few samples to whet your appetite...!
other things that we ran this year were '(shhh!)' - an hour of no talking and quiet tuneage [dj-ed brilliantly by matt stevenson] with folks invited to come along and do something creative, and the inaugral photoflash swap - an open exhibition for festival punters with a big swap at the end [bring one of your photos, take someone else's home with you]
both events went really well, with the photo swap turning out to be a very sociable and enjoyable way to end the weekend... there was a great buzz around the event with the exhibitors really getting into the swing of the event and spending a long time before and after the actual swap chatting and discussing the work. very pleasing...
[more later...]
there's so much that goes on there, and it's such a rich experience, and i'm probably not that great with words - it's kind of hard to communicate it adequately...
[i'll have a go though...]
one thing that i have noticed in a lot of the media coverage of the festival is the way that gene robinson's appearance has been made to sound very divisive. that certainly didn't seem to be the case on site, as at the festival itself there was very little aggro or visible difficulty around him or his talks.
in some reports there was a lot of talk about folks boycotting the festival because of his presence, but ticket sales and attendances were up on previous years, so if there were stay-away protesters they didn't make much of an impact...
this year we did the self-portrait thing again and it was just as popular as last time. there were more of us involved in running it this time, with a crack team of artists - mark, dave, simon, wanja and rich - supplementing the brilliant team of volunteers - ed and liz, deidre and dominic, dan and sara. we had about 350 draw-ers inover the weekend and they produced some really great drawings - it's really rewarding to see folk surprising themselves with their own work! we're hoping to get most of the drawings up on the greenbelt website as downloadable desktop wallpapers sometime soon.
i'll let you know if and when they're available for download, but in the meantime here's a few samples to whet your appetite...!
other things that we ran this year were '(shhh!)' - an hour of no talking and quiet tuneage [dj-ed brilliantly by matt stevenson] with folks invited to come along and do something creative, and the inaugral photoflash swap - an open exhibition for festival punters with a big swap at the end [bring one of your photos, take someone else's home with you]
both events went really well, with the photo swap turning out to be a very sociable and enjoyable way to end the weekend... there was a great buzz around the event with the exhibitors really getting into the swing of the event and spending a long time before and after the actual swap chatting and discussing the work. very pleasing...
[more later...]
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