BBC Nottingham have an interview with me here giving more info on the exhibition and the artists involved.
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BBC Interview
Monday, March 9th, 2009LeftLion Exhibition: Our Style Is Legendary
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
A BIG THANK YOU to all of the artists who have contributed work to the LeftLion exhibition currently on show at the Malt Cross in Nottingham. I would also like to extend this thanks to anybody who came down to the opening night on Thursday - it was awesome and had a real buzz about the place.
We had two frenzied nights getting the exhibition ready but somehow we made it, with just three pairs of hands on call for the setup and hanging sessions. Massive thanks to Alan Gilby And Rebi for all their hard work and dedication.
In the end, we have over 90 individual pieces on display by over 25 artists and had over 200 people through the door on the opening night. Thanks for all the positive comments - the art is pretty densely packed on the walls and with all the meeting and greeting it was difficult to take it all in with the attention it deserves.
Rikki Marr also did some sterling work for charity, raising money for Comic Relief by doing live portraits of willing visitors in the bar.
Some of the works in the gallery have already been sold and plenty of people have visited since the opening night, so I think it’s fair to judge the exhibition as a great success.
Our Style is Legendary: The Art of LeftLion is open every day until Sunday 15th March from 11am-6pm and will be open until 11pm from 11-13th March. If you are in town during this time, come down and check it out - it is conveniently located at the bottom of St.James’ Street, just off Market Square.
A scaled down version of the exhibition will be on show at the Golden Fleece from 21st March, but if you want to see the original canvases and installations, hit the Malt Cross this week while you have the chance.
Exhibition: Our Style Is Legendary
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
I am currently busy organising and curating Our Style Is Legendary: The Art of LeftLion, an exhibition celebrating LeftLion’s five years as the cultural cornerstone of Nottingham. The exhibition will feature prints and canvases from an archive of artwork by the cream of Hoodtown’s illustrators and photographers, as well as video installations and sculpture in the gallery space.
We will also be showcasing new work by artists who responded to a brief of representing the left lion in Nottingham’s market square as a meeting place and human interaction in the city (this being the initial idea which inspired LeftLion’s existence). Judging by the pieces I have received so far, things are shaping up nicely with some fantastic canvases and a great film turning up in the post this week. I’ll add more details in the next few days, so keep your eyes peeled for a little taster of what will be on display.
The opening night is at the Malt Cross on Thursday 5th March, starting at 7pm with live bands and performance throughout the night. The artwork will be on show in the gallery space until Saturday 15th March, then a selection of prints will be on display at the Golden Fleece from Thursday 20th March.
Work will be on show by artists including Rob White, Nick Chaffe, Rikki Marr, Simon Mitchell, Alex Godwin, Dom Henry, Simon Raven of Backlit and lots of other artists who are way too studio-bound to have anything as unnatural as a website. Come down, have a beer and check it out, just watch out for the metal animals which will be prowling around.
Welcome to Pick Any Two
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
THIS WEBSITE is a way for me to document my recent work and share my knowledge and experience of being a graphic designer for ten years. It seems fitting that my first post should coincide with me finishing the layout of issue 27 of Nottingham’s best free culture mag, LeftLion. After 4½ years of art directing and laying out the magazine every other month, I am stepping aside to let a new designer experience the joys of deadline weekend and the early-rising sun mocking you through the curtains as you frantically try to get all those film titles italicised before the presses start rolling.
I can’t say I’ll miss it much, especially as I’ll still be art directing the mag, using the extra time to plan further ahead, arrange photoshoots with higher production values and generally just help the magazine kick ass that much more while also remaining sane and working on some personal projects.
The image above is the cover for the latest issue of the magazine which covers Hoodtown’s finest happenings for Feb-March 2009. Like every other magazine of recent weeks, we’re taking a good hard headshaking look at the credit crunch. The inital plan was for me to either screenprint or redraw the cover with coloured pencils to give the impression that we can’t afford computers to put the magazine together (which isn’t too far from the truth), but time was in short supply, as is often the way with editorial entities, and we had to settle for my inital illustrator concept drawing. Still, once it’s printed on newsprint it will still look like it was done with leaky pens anyway so all will not be lost.
Now I’ve just got to finish organising the exhibition LeftLion are holding in the city this March to celebrate five years of publishing work by the finest writers, illustrators and photographers in the Queen of the Midlands. I’ll keep you informed of developments on this here blog thang. To subscribe to my RSS feed, click the link in the sidebar or the site footer. Thanks for stopping by.
