Friday, 25 September 2009

TATESHOTS

THE TATE'S AMAZING ARCHIVE OF ARTISTS/DESIGNERS/ETC TALKING ABOUT THEIR WORK:


http://www.tate.org.uk/tateshots/archive.htm





ISSUE TEN.
JEREMY DELLER INTERVIEW.

ANTHONY BURRILL



PERSONALLY, I THINK HIS POSTER WORK IS MUCH STRONGER THAN THE MOVING IMAGE THAT HE HAS DONE...

I PARTICULARLY LIKE HIS WOODBLOCK POSTERS (BELOW)



AND HIS STRONG AND CONFIDENT USE OF TYPOGRAPHY AND TWO COLOUR PRINTS:





RECENT WORK:

HEAVY PENCIL + ICA

HEAVY PENCIL IS THE ICA'S MONTHLY FREE CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATION EVENT AND IT IS CELEBRATING ITS FIRST BIRTHDAY ON OCT.1ST:

http://www.ica.org.uk/heavypencil

PREVIOUS ILLUSTRATORS:


(IAN STEVENSON AND BOB LONDON. OCT. 08)
(WWW.IANSTEVENSON.CO.UK + WWW.BOBLONDON.CO.UK)


(ROB MATTHEWS. SEPT. 09)

SPECIAL BIRTHDAY ILLUSTRATORS:


(ANTHONY BURRILL.)


(IAN STEVENSON)


(LUKE BEST)


(ANDREW RAE)

WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

PREVIOUS FOLK ART DISPLAYS:

DESIGN AND WORKMANSHIP IN PRINTING
(1915)

BLACK EYES AND LEMONADE - A FESTIVAL OF BRITISH POPULAR AND TRADITIONAL ART
(EARLY ARTS COUNCIL EXHIBITION)
(1951)


(1951 POSTER BY BARBARA JONES)


BANNER BRIGHT - AN EXHIBITION OF TRADE BANNERS FROM 1821-1973


THE FAIRGROUND
(1977)
'RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE SHOWMEN AND SHOWWOMEN WHO MAINTAIN AND TRANSPORT THE TRAVELLING FAIRS, AND TO THE CRAFTSMEN WHO SUPPORT THEM'


(WALTZER PAINTED BY FRED FOWLE)

THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY HAS AN ARCHIVE OF ALL PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS AND INCLUDED IN THEIR COLLECTION ARE:

"PUBLICATIONS/RARE DOCUMENTS/ARTISTS' LETTERS/PHOTOGRAPHS/GRAPHIC WORKS/PRESS RECORDS/EXHIBITION PLANS AND INSTALLATIONS/RECORDINGS ON TAPE AND VIDEOS OF ARTISTS/CRITICS AND CURATORS"

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/archive

THE FOYLE READING ROOM OPENING TIMES:

Tuesday-Wednesday, 11am-5pm
Thursday, 11am-8pm
Friday, 11am-5pm

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

OBSESSION.

BOOKS.

BOOKS I WANT :::

DISPLAYING THE FAITH
NEIL JARMAN

THE FLOWERING OF AMERICAN FOLK ART, 1776 - 1876
JEAN LIPMAN / ALICE WINCHESTER



BOOKS I'VE ORDERED :::

MAYDAY : THE COMING OF SPRING (ENGLSIH TRADITIONS)
DOC ROWE

GLASTONBURY FLAGS.









Tuesday, 22 September 2009

DESIGN MUSEUM DESIGN ARCHIVE

"DISCOVER MORE ABOUT THE DESIGNERS, ARCHITECTS AND TECHNOLOGIES FEATURED AT THE DESIGN MUSEUM IN DESIGN AT THE MUSEUM, OUR ONLINE ARCHIVE OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY DESIGN"

http://www.designmuseum.org/design

PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN::

CEDRIC PRICE.
ARCHITECT.
1934 - 2003.



LONDON ZOO AVIARY DESIGN.
1961



FUN PALACE DESIGN.
1964

EXHIBITION

TYPOGRAPHICA
''''''''''''
KEMISTRY GALLERY
HOXTON
EC2A 3PD
SEPT 22ND - OCT 31ST



AN EXIBITION OF WORK FROM 'TYPOGRAPHICA'.

http://dazeddigital.com/ArtsAndCulture/article/4616/1/Typographica_at_Kemistry_Gallery

Monday, 21 September 2009

CONTACT.

CONTACT DELLER:

http://www.jeremydeller.org/


CONTACT DOC ROWE:

contact@docrowe.org.uk.

IMPORTANT LIST OF LINKS::


http://www.docrowe.org.uk/links/index.html


CONTACT ED HALL:

020 8318 0420 (?)

CONTACT NICK MANSFIELD:
- BANNER EXPERT
- DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE'S HISTORY AT MANCHESTER UNI

CONTACT ALAN KANE:

........

CO-WROTE FOLK ARCHIVE CONTEMPORARY POPULAR ART FROM THE UK
WITH JEREMY DELLER

CONTACT JEREMY MILLAR:
ACADEMIC ESSAY IN FOLK ARCHIVE CONTEMPORRY ART FROM THE UK

contact@jeremymillar.org

CURRENTLY READING

FRONT PAGE:


INSIDE PAGES:




Sunday, 20 September 2009

JACK FREAK

GILBERT AND GEORGE.
EXIBITION.
WHITE CUBE GALLERY.
MASONS YARD.
10 JULY - 22 AUGUST.

http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/jack-freak-mas/



I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS EXIBITION AT THE MOMENT. I WENT TO SEE THE IT AT MASONS YARD ON THE LAST DAY IT WAS OPEN. THE FIRST THING THAT STRIKES YOU ABOUT IT IS THE SCALE OF THE WORK (SEE ABOVE PICTURE). YOU GO DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS AND WALK INTO A HUGE WHITE ROOM, FILLED WITH ENORMOUS 'STAINED GLASS WINDOWS'. THE WHOLE EFFECT IS THAT OF A CURCH, AND THE SILENCE IN THE ROOM ADDS TO THIS FEELING.


(G+G JESUS JACK 2008)


(G+G CANCAN 2008)


(G+G STREET PARTY 2008)

I WAS PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THIS EXIBITION BECAUSE IT RELATES TO TWO OF MY THIRD YEAR PROJECTS - 'THE BRITSHNESS PROJECT' AND 'THE BANNER'.
GILBERT AND GEORGE SYMBOLISE BRITISH ECCENTRICITY AND ALSO REFLECT OUT INHERENT CULTURAL SENSE OF HUMOUR. BUT ALONGSIDE THIS, THEY ALSO CAPTURE THE DARKER ASPECTS OF BRITISH CULTURE AND ALTHOUGH DISGUISED BY GARISH UNION JACKS AND BOLD ICONS YOU GET A SENSE OF A RATHER CYNICAL VIEW OF THE 'DILUTION' OF MODERN SOCIETY. I CAN RELATE STRONGLY TO THIS, AND OFTEN SEEK TO FIND THAT BALANCE IN MY OWN WORK.

THE CURATION OF THIS EXHIBITION WAS ALSO SOMETHING THAT I FOUND VERY INTERESTING, ESPECIALLY WHEN THINKING ABOUT 'THE BANNER' PROJECT. WHEN MAKING THE BANNER I WANT TO THINK AS MUCH ABOUT THE CONTEXT IT WOULD BE SHOWN IN AS I DO WHAT THE BANNER ITSELF ACUTALLY LOOKS LIKE. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT JEREMY DELLER AND ED HALL'S 'FROM ONE REVOLUTION TO ANOTHER' SHOW OF TRADE UNION BANNERS - AND THERE IS A STRIKING RESEMBLENCE BETWEEN G+G'S 'JACK FREAK' SHOW AND THEIRS.


(JEREMY DELLER AND ED HALL FROM ONE REVOLUTION TO ANOTHER PALAIS DE TOKYO)


(JEREMY DELLER ED HALL FROM ONE REVOLUTION TO ANOTHER PALAIS DE TOKYO)

THERE IS A FEELING OF RECOGNITION WHEN LOOKING AT G+G'S WORK AND THEN LOKING AT ONE OF ED HALL'S TRADE UNION BANNERS. THE USE OF IMAGE AND TEXT IS PREVELANT, BUT ALSO THE SIMPLE BUT STRONG MOTIFS AND THE ACCUTE ATTENTION TO LAYOUT. THERE IS SOMETHING THAT FEELS VERY FAMILIAR ABOUT BOTH SETS OF WORK, THAT PERHAPS STEM FROM THE SUBJECT SOURCE..


(ED HALL TRADE UNION BANNER BRITISH FOLK ARCHIVE)


(G+G CHRISTIAN ENGLAND 2008)

THE FIRST POST.

MVRDV

www.mvrdv.nl

AMAZING FORWARD THINKING ARCHITECTS FROM THE NETHERLANDS.



MIRADOR APPARTMENT BUILDING - MADRID

MVRDV : "specialize in eye-catching, unconventional projects designed to maximize density in a given space without leaving the inhabitant feeling cramped"

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW ABOUT ONE OF MVRDV'S FOUNDERS WINY MAAS:

"With his messy, teen-idol hair and untucked shirt, Maas strolled the stage extolling the MVRDV credo — maximize urban density, construct artificial natures, let data-crunching computers do the design work — while various mind-bending simulations played across the screen: skyscrapers that tilted and “kissed” on the 30th floor; highways that ran through lobbies and converted into “urban beaches”; all the housing, retail and industry for a theoretical city of one million inhabitants digitally compressed into the space of a three-mile-high cube."