Che Camille: Mini Show

I've just taken my Bowl of Cornflakes through to Che Camille in Glasgow for a mini sculpture show that's set to open tomorrow. As well as my piece, there will be work by Gary Bolam, Cheryl Field, and Lewis Holleran on show. Excuse my blurb:

This month sees artwork by Gary Bolam, Cheryl Field, David Galletly and Lewis Holleran. Come join us on the 1st of August 7-9pm for the launch of both the jewellery and sculpture exhibitions. A glittered deer skull, mechanical creations, stone cornflakes, video works and narrative jewellery all await you. Our new artist books section will be making it’s first appearance in the showroom also. The exhibition will run until the end of the month.

Sounds pretty good eh? Che Camille itself is an awesome boutique / workshop / creative space. It's well worth a visit. Here are the deets:

Sculpture Show: Che Camille

Various artists

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Show runs: 1st - 31st August

Opening Party: Saturday 1st August 7-9pm

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Che Camille

Floor 6, Argyle Arcade,

Buchanan Street,

Glasgow, G2 8BD

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Tel: 07862 720215

Email: camille@checamille.com

Stop by for the opening if you can. I think there will be all the usual music, drink and chitter chat. On a related note, there should be a little more Che Camille news from me in a few days.

Paper City: Urban Utopias

A while ago I was asked to draw the Paper City page in Blueprint magazine. The idea being that, in each issue, a different artist, designer, architect or illustrator showcases their personal vision of a utopia. This week, Blueprint are putting together an exhibition of their Paper City archive at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, my little drawing included.

The show sounds pretty awesome. I don't have a list of names, but going by some of the Paper City pages I've seen in the past, there will be some interesting people involved. The hanging also promises to be quite unique with work reproduced in multiple copies and bound as ‘pads’ so that visitors to the show can tear off their favourite images and keep them. Here are the details:

Paper City: Urban Utopias

Blueprint & various artists

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Show runs: 31 July - 27 October

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The Architecture Space

Royal Academy of Arts

Burlington House

Piccadilly

London W1J 0BD

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Tel: 020 7300 8004

Email: architecture@royalacademy.org.uk

I won't make it down to see the show personally, but if you find yourself nearby I'd recommend you take a look. I'll post some images if I come across them.

Rouge, Edinburgh

Back in the springtime, my friend Rue Five got me in touch with the folks at Flesh in Edinburgh. They were putting on a group show called "Rouge" and were nice enough to ask me if I'd like to do some stuff for it. I did these (click for bigger):

This is called "Crows & Rabbit". It's watercolour and ink on cardboard. There were a couple more like this called "Sloths" (at top of page) and "Wolf & Owl":

I handed in some of my red & black drawings. Unfortuantely there was not enough time to scan them before the opening but a few are visible in these photos:

There was also a fairly large untitled picture of a kinda house thing.

The show went really well and I sold most of my work. Also exhibiting were: Rue Five, Elph, Concetta Barbera, Gopherhead, One Neck, Krisis, Lady K, Alexa Cameron... (I will complete this list and put in some links later, promise). We all had a good drink and a dance on the opening night.

Also, I did a few more red & black pictures after the Rouge show opened in June 06. This time I got the dang things scanned. CLICK HERE to see a them all. If you're too lazy for that, this is what one looks like:

I'll post about the second Flesh exhibition "Complete Control" soon.

Gimmie Five

Ok, hello! A small post today to get me back into writing this.

I've got to finish off a bunch of things such as tidying and finances before I can sit down to draw, so nothing new today. It's annoying because there are about 3 fairly important drawingy things coming up and I've not got the foggiest what I'm gonna do. Not the foggiest.

This is a picture I did for the "Complete Control" exhibition at Flesh in Edinburgh. My friend Concetta bought it which was really nice. It's called "Gimmie Five".

I had the idea to do a few more of these playing other games such as "Slappy" or "Knuckly" but I never really got round to it. The Flesh exhibition was really good with stuff from Elph, Rue Five, Gopherhead and all that crowd. I hope they put on more in the future. My favourite thing was by Alexa Cameron but goddamn it was huge and expensive so I didn't buy it.

Bye!

Red & Black pictures!

Hello. It's been a while.

Here are some little red & black drawings I've been doing recently. They've been posted in bits and pieces in lots of different places. I thought I'd them here though because this place is good for making things look nice and such. They're a bit bigger than a postcard in real life and are in wee frames.

I did 4 for the 'Rouge' show at Flesh in Edinburgh. I was in such a hurry I didn't get a chance to scan them though. A couple of them were maybe the best but nevermind.

I gave a few of these ones in at Flesh a few weeks later as well. I have no idea what's been done with them. If they still have them you should maybe buy them or something. That'd be pretty cool I guess.

Another two were a birthday present for someone. There are two more I might post if I don't do anything new but they aren't so great. If you click on these little ones you can see them big and look at all my mistakes.

Sorry if this post looks all crummy. The way it looks right now to me is okay but you know how things can be with alignment and junk.

What else is happening? Not much really. I'm going to send some emails and phone UPS now but that isn't very exciting really. I hope you are doing something more exciting than that. I hope you are going to have some nice food outside in the sun or buy that thing in the shop you've been wanting.

Maybe I will post something else soon! Bye.