THEM AND US. exhibition at 'The Rag Factory'

If you missed the 'Super Graphics' exhibition last week, not all is lost, we have a little surprise for you.
We have another very exciting show coming from the 14th to the 17th of July at 'The Rag Factory' just off Brick Lane.

And if you did go to the show then you know there will be  really great work, so bring your butt here cos we are showing new work as well as some of the favourites.

We will be having a shop so if you are still banging your head on the wall for not having buy that amazing limited edition print you have not to worry; but there is not many left so don't miss the second chance.

There will be cold Kopparbegs on the day of the Private View to make this summery show just perfect.

A little review by LCC

Super Graphics!! visual report...

And after a very exciting week at LCC, we had to put the show down yesterday, so for those who missed it, I took a few pictures for you to have a look around.

It was 47 of us, showing two pieces each so if you wanna see individual pieces of each of us visit the 'Super Graphics' website where you can also find the work of the other five Graphic and Media Design pathways.

Here are some of my very favourite pieces, but the whole show was amazing, I have to say I'm really proud to have taken part of it. Click on images to enlarge, and for more details click on peoples names for a direct link to their exhibitions page.

    

'Comeback and tell me who you are' (top). 

'Home is the Place you Left' (bottom)

 Mara Bueno    

 'Orlando' Johanna Woolhead

 Egija Zirapa

'Alice' Abigail Aked
 'Pandora' Jacqueline Ford   

  Annu Kilpelainen 

Lisa Roberton

Amy Friend

We also had a very cool SHOP, where you could buy limited edition work from all the pathways students.

SUPER GRAPHICS exhibition.

Come to our  Degree Show from this Thursday!



























BA Graphic and Media Design 2010 show from all pathways:

Information Design
Typo/Graphic Design
Illustration
Interactive & Moving Image
Design for Advertising
Design for Print

OPEN Mon-Sat 10am - 6pm

PRIVATE VIEW THURSDAY 24th June 6pm - 9pm
(afterparty at Corsica Studios)

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ALSO there will be:
A READING ROOM!
LIVE WORKSHOPS
SHOP TO BUY STUDENT WORK

AND a hot catalogue  that you can take home and cuddle.

http://www.supergraphics2010.co.uk/

.... traces... Welcome Intruders

.. a little advance of the pics from the 'WELCOME INTRUDERS' installation

... just cos i could not resist it... still gotta go through many many .. 

and it might take a little while... but will get here... 

 hope you enjoy it... I did, very much

in this post, the work of Alia Ahmad, Jaqueline Ford, Mara Bueno, Moonkeum Kim and Sarah Culross

'WELCOME INTRUDERS' EXHIBITION

In a project that questions the notion of identity and the public and private space, the personal and the impersonal, three Illustrators moved in my bedroom and surrounded by many of my personal things they were asked to respond to a space charged with its own history and make it their home. 

Leaving trace of their presence and having documented their findings, they would vacate the space after four days for the next intruder to come and build the next layer of their own territorial claim. 

This exhibition is to celebrate their findings and their contributions. And you will be able to see the various stages of this installation through their eyes as well as mine. 

During the exhibition a fourth  intruder will be Video Performing adding the final layer.  

Please note space will be restricted, so to avoid disappointment it is advisable that you confirm your attendance by emailing to marabueno@yahoo.com.mx with Welcome Intruders as the subject.

I will be very happy to see you there.
Thank You. 

If you want to read the brief they responded to, click here. 

'ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL' work in progress Exhibition

So I got to show the first stage of the WELCOME INTRUDERS project which final installation will be shown on the 29th of January. So far so good... 

Thanks to all those who came, it was a really fun night. 

work by bansy   and was thoughtful enough to make close ups of peoples work..  

 Annu Kilpelainen, picture by bansy

Adam Ggong, picture by bansy

Rach Taylor, picture by bansy

Guy Stanton, picture by bansy

Aaddaamm Ggoonngg, picture by bansy

Work in Progress Exhibition

'ALL'S  WELL THAT ENDS WELL'

The Well Gallery 

at the London College of Communication 

in Elephant & Castle, SE1 6SB

Friday 15th January 2010

16:00 - 22:00

2nd and 3rd Year Illustration are holding an exhibition of all our work in progress this Friday the 15th just for the hell of it (because we LOVE doing extra work) so pop on down and have a look!

I will be exhibiting the first set of documentation of the ongoing project 'WELCOME INTRUDERS' .

and yes... there will be beer!

....so see you there at 4pm  :)

Image by Amy Friend, who's work  will also be exhibited 
 

Handmade & Bound

Hello, just to let you know about the "Handmade and Bound" zine festival taking place on sunday the 1rst of november, a few friends and I would be selling some goodies.. mine are still in the oven, but come! come! to the zine feast...

• Handmade & Bound 2009

  The next Handmade & Bound fair will be held on Sunday 1 November 2009 at:

  St Aloysius Social Club
  Corner of Eversholt Street and Phoenix Road,
  London NW1

  12 - 6pm
  Free entry
  Nearest tube: Euston

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This Little Girl made it to the V&A

Visitors to PEN-PAPER-SCISSORS could colour outside the lines at this exciting night in celebration of the V&A Illustration Awards 2009. They discovered the multi-disciplinary nature of Illustration by making a stop motion movie with the Peepshow Collective and marvelled at live collaborative animation by artists from jotta.com. They could join a talk by inventive illustrator and writer Graham Rawle and listen to Julie Verhoeven discuss her varied practice. Illustrators from Debut Art and Dutch Uncle battled it out at the Secret Wars Drawing contest and visitors could enter a competition for the a piece of the final artwork.

Featured at the V&A

Live Animation Arena by jotta.com


Chosen from the Series Man Woman Machine (detail, 2007), this collage was part of a really nice live animation that took place at the Victoria & Albert Museum on Friday 26th.

Pen-Paper-Scissors, devoted to the crossover between Illustration and Animation, was a part of the V&A Friday Late series and was in aid of the V&A Illustration Awards 2009.

The night was a great success for everyone involved, as Sam and Ellie worked away cutting and illustrating their set pieces, it was wonderful to see it all come to life right next to them on the projection screen. What was really brilliant were the hoards of visitors standing entranced by the animators, an amazing team from The Moving Picture Company, at work. Their tech station was constantly surrounded by curious spectators who often lent over to ask what programmes and techniques they were using.

Check out the rest of the illustrators at the full Jotta's review.

Peepshow Animate the V&A

And since I was already at the V&A I wondered around and found this drop in  hands-on animation workshop organised by the Peepshow, and it was so much fun I ended up swapping a tattoo for an overhead projector :) .. you can see the video that came out of the workshop here.

Work in Progress Exhibition

This piece is about questioning the use and perception of space, the public and the private, the personal and the impersonal.

It is composed of two site based installations. The first one took place in Richmond Park, where by bringing elements that evoked personal use and private property as well as the idea of warmth and personal identity, I intended to accentuate the uses of public spaces as extensions of our personal space. The need to belong to a place, a territory.



The second one was in at the Crypt Gallery. Here I brought some of the branches I found during the first installation, I wanted to bring the out-door indoors and with this underline the levels of public and accessibility. The branches were suspended and joined only by their shadows which were mimicked with soil, a trail that reminded where they came from, what they are no longer. Dead and alive, present and absent, past and present. time and space.

photo by George Hurst

photo by James and Varvara, taken from their blog


thank you for all the people who came, it was full! how exciting... unfortunately my pictures were terrible,  if you wanna  have a look at some of the others exhibiters  george's site  is got a really  nice documentation... make sure you have a look at the rest of his work, you'll love it!

Flyer by Erica Dorn

Obsessions

This is an installation piece about obsessive thoughts and how do they move in my head. Obsessions get in my dreams and in my nightmares, they start again and again.

Sometimes I feel so full of thoughts that I can't see them anymore. They feel like words that fly in my head like flies in a jar.

The videos were design to be play in a loop simultaneously in a gallery space. The Video in the middle was a big and distorted projection on the wall. The one on the top was showed in a small screen on the left hand side of the projection and the one on the bottom on a small screen on the right hand side of it. Sound is meant to overlap, but the one in the middle should be the loudest. You can play them here simultaneously or separately. If you are a PC user and are having trouble seeing them you can play them separately in youtube.

Obsessions are irrational, they have no logic to follow, they are not clear, they are not easy to recognize... they come from somewhere we cant understand.