Its that time again tomorrow and Sunday are both are both Great Western Studios Summer Open Days. Now in its 18th year, the renowned Open Studios weekend presents a thriving community of established and emerging artists and creatives from all disciplines including architecture, drawing, digital media, fashion, jewellery, music, painting, photography, sculpture and much more.
Primitive Heritage (A collective made up of myself, Two Times Elliot and Mash Creative) will be selling originals, screenprints, risoprints and mixed media collages. Heres an example of a few. I'll also be selling some of my one off drawings and paintings. Hopefully see you down there - 12pm - 6pm, both days, admission free.
The pieces here are all available to buy here - Primitive Heritage
Also check out IDN v19n2 for a profile of Primitive Heritage.
The pieces here are all available to buy here - Primitive Heritage
Also check out IDN v19n2 for a profile of Primitive Heritage.
Heres the cover I've just produced for the K&S remix album "Mixed Feelings" Its basically a hybrid of the original album design and a few earlier designs I did for them - so I suppose its a remix in itself. The album features Sebastian, Romanthony, Farley and Heller, Max Sedgley, Lee Fields, Analog People In A Digital World, Sander Kleinenberg, Ursula Rucker, Smoove and Turrell and Solomun.
Advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty contacted me to work on a poster and ad campaign for the Guardian's sponsorship of Gustav Dudamel concerts at The South Bank Centre.
Dudamel is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist. He is featured in the amazing 2011 documentary "Let The Children Play," a film which focuses on his work advocating music as a way to enrich children's lives. His incredible performances in which the audiences truly interact with the orchestra have to be seen to be believed. Check out his version of Leonard Bernstein's Mambo here.
Heres a few examples of a poster I did for Channel 4's Paralympics coverage along with the guys over at INTWorks (Its Nice That's creative division) They wanted it as colourful and poppy as possible and as I had to fit all these athelete's into one image it was quite a feat to pull off. The third one down is the one that made the cut.
Music updates - K+S, Romanthony, Farley and Heller and John Turrell
by jimmy turrell on Friday, 8 June 2012
My brother John Turrell (of the band Smoove and Turrell) has just released his first solo single proper - Wrong Time. Its from his forthcoming album The Kingmaker - which I've just checked properly out and is really amazing (I'm not just saying that because he's my little bro - promise!) so watch this space for updates.
Heres the video for the single made by Black Dog Productions and also his new website - www.johnturrell.com
Also I had the pleasure of working on the artwork for the new Kraak and Smaak single which features three complete house music legends on the same track. Romanthony (of Daft Punks "One More Time") is on vocals and Farley and Heller are on remix duties. Its a spangly, acid tinged beauty built for DC10 or the Space terrace and has just made it to number 1 in the DMC Zzub chart. Check it out out here.
Another exhibition I've been asked to contribute to is A Family Affair - a show organised by Fallon and Macmillan Cancer Support. Other artists include Brett Ryder, Paul Willoughby, Eduardo Recife, I Love Dust, James Dawe, Jody Barton and Stevie Gee.
The idea is to raise awareness for afamilyaffair.com and more importantly money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Each piece which has been donated has been reproduced as a limited edition A2 print. There on sale for £75 each.
Basically the brief was to create imagery concerning bicycles or family. I've chosen to use an image of a friends mother and her sister when they were kids. I was chatting to her recently and she said how much their love of cycling really bonded them as sisters.
I thought this story fitted the brief perfectly so got this photo from her.
If you can't make the exhibition the prints will also be available for a limited period through:
afamilyaffair.myshopify.com
Anybody who fancies the private view pop down to Fallon tomorrow night from 6.30 - 9.00. It should should be a laugh.
I've been lucky enough to collaborate with Parisian store Colette in the past when I worked on one of their catalogues a couple of years ago. The guys at Little White Lies Magazine have hooked up with Colette and extended their LWL70 exhibition for the store. After much painful deliberation I chose Serpico as my favourite 70s film and my interpretation of the movie was chosen to feature again. New image makers were also chosen including So-Me, Genevieve Gaukler, Anthony Burrill and Kevin Lyons. It runs from 7 May - 2 June so if your over in Gay Paris check it out.
I've attached some initial images of the show, plus the flyer.