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Southwold town sign
Posted by Simon Lewin
Our friend Brian Webb of Webb & Webb has just designed a new sign for this Suffolk coastal town.
The sign is a ‘slice through the sea making a plinth for the town name, stacked on the waves. People walking over the bridge will see the golden-eyed fish in the waves’, Brian told the Eastern Daily Press.
Find out more about the work of Webb & Webb.
Posted by Simon Lewin on August 12th, 2010
Adam Bridgland
Posted by Simon Lewin
'You Will Have Dignity If You Come Here' is Adam Bridgland's first public art commission in the United Kingdom. He was awarded it in 2009 by Futures Community College and Commissions East. A year in development and fabrication in collaboration with AJ Wells on the Isle Of Wight, the work is now installed and will be unveiled to the public later in the summer.
The title for the work is inspired by a line in a poem by a student at Futures College. The poem was a response to someone coming to Southend for the first time and was completed when Adam was doing workshops with the students in preparation for the commission. As well as the link to achievement and awards, he star references the lights on Southend's famous prominade. This is emphasised by the photoluminescent paint around the edges of the aluminium frame, that will bring the artwork to life at night.
View further images or visit Adam's website.
Posted by Simon Lewin on July 22nd, 2010
Light Traffic Only
Posted by Simon Lewin
59 High Street is the online home of illustrator Michelle Thompson and graphic designer Gareth Wild.
'Light Traffic Only' is the first in a series of homeware products featuring the typography found on white village sign posts. Older signs are cast in steel, later versions rivet individual metal letters onto wooden posts. The signs are slowly disappearing – they are vandalised, buried in hedges, destroyed in car accidents and inevitably replaced with their modern equivalent.
Find out more at www.59highstreet.com
Posted by Simon Lewin on July 9th, 2010
Angie Lewin’s latest linocut
Posted by Simon Lewin
Here's the first block of a new large linocut that Angie is working on for our St. Jude's in the City exhibition at the Bankside Gallery in November. To receive further details nearer the time and an invitation to the private view please do join our mailing list.
Posted by Simon Lewin on July 4th, 2010
Museum of British Folklore
Posted by Simon Lewin
On Saturday 3rd April the first of the Museum of British Folklore's mini exhibitions opened. The owners of Port Eliot, Lord and Lady St Germans have kindly loaned the space in one of the Gatehouses for the summer period while the main house is open to the public and also for the Port Eliot Festival period.
The exhibition looks at the Padstow May Day tradition and features a replica of the current Old Oss mask which is flanked by fabric designed by Mark Hearld and sponsored by St Jude's. There is also a small display of Corn Dollies which are specific to Cornwall.
The upstairs space has cabinets looking at curious remedies and cures, such as wearing the key of a church around the neck whilst sleeping to cure heartache. The legend of Dando, the dissolute 14th-century priest of St Germans, who is said to haunt the area, is told with an engaging film piece. Lastly, a fairy bower is displayed with a piece about the Cornish Piskies.
The exhibition runs at Port Eliot in Cornwall until 30th July 2010. Open every day except Friday from 2pm-4.30pm. Find out more about the Museum of British Folklore.
Posted by Simon Lewin on April 27th, 2010
Angie Lewin’s Salthouse poster
Posted by Simon Lewin
LATEST Angie's 'Salthouse' poster will feature in her forthcoming 'Plants and Places' book, published Autumn 2010. For details nearer the launch, sign up for Angie's newsletter.
UPDATE The bidding closed on the 16th May 2010 and the winning bid for Angie's print was over £2,200. In total just over £4900 was raised for the Marine Conservation Society.
Earlier this year Angie was asked by Coast magazine to produce a linocut print, re-inventing the seaside poster.
Seven artists have contributed to the project including paper-cut artist Rob Ryan, Red or Dead founders Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway and Biba creator Barbara Hulanicki.
This three-colour linocut print (50cm x 70cm) is a one-off and is being auctioned to raise proceeds for the Marine Conservation Society.
The auction launches on Ebay on Thursday 6th May 2010 - if you'd like to receive a reminder nearer the time, do sign up for Angie's e-mail newsletter.
Posted by Simon Lewin on April 22nd, 2010
St Edmundsbury Cathedral
Posted by Simon Lewin
We're really very proud of our friend Paul Humphreys and his team at Hare & Humphreys for their work on this Millennium Project at the cathedral in Bury St. Edmunds.
There's a great slideshow of the project on the BBC Suffolk website...
"The final stage of the Millennium Project at the cathedral in Bury St Edmunds was to build a fan-vaulted ceiling under the roof of the new tower. The viewing area opened to visitors in March 2010 and they've been gazing up in awe at the artwork 130 feet above their heads."
Posted by Simon Lewin on April 7th, 2010
Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2010
Posted by Kate Sullivan
The line-up for this year's lively 239th Norfolk & Norwich Festival is very impressive. It boasts 350 performances at 50 different venues, some of which are not usually open to the public. The festival is also billed as the International Arts Festival of the East of England - so expect a brilliantly varied choice of entertainment, including some world premieres.
It's difficult to know which events to buy tickets for, as there are circus acts, classical music, dance, jazz, street theatre and much more, and I'm hoping I've not left it too late to make my choice, as I hear tickets are selling fast.
Thankfully, not all events are ticketed. The Festival Garden Party was loved by my girls last year, and is back this year on Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th May. I'm also keen to see NoFit State Circus at Eaton Park and Kurt Perschke's 15 ft inflatable RedBall (see below). These will be squashed into 13 locations across the city during the 13 day long festival. I'm also planning to get my 6 year old daughter's hair cut by children of the same age, as part of Mammalian Diving Reflex Haircuts by Children at the stylish Flint hairdressers. It can't be worse than her 3 year old sister could do, can it?
The festival runs form 7th - 22nd May 2010. For further information and to buy tickets, visit nnf10.org.uk
Posted by Kate Sullivan on March 31st, 2010
Women of Bardfield
Posted by Simon Lewin
Next Sunday sees the opening of a new exhibition at the Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden.
'Women of Bardfield' exhibits the work of the artists who worked in this Essex village, which during the 40s and 50s was home to artists and designers including Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, Sheila Robinson (whose work is pictured below), Bernard Cheese, Marianne Straub and Walter Hoyle.
From the Fry Art Gallery website...
"There are wood engravings, box constructions and paintings by Tirzah Ravilious, oils paintings and pots by Charlotte Bawden, and remarkable marbled papers by both artists, often working together at the kitchen table. Sheila Robinson invented the cardboard cut and there are a number of these together with an unpublished book Seven Dancing Princesses. Lucy, the first wife of John Aldridge, was a rag rug maker and one of her pieces is on show together with a portrait of her at her work. Marianne Straub had a distinguished career in woven textiles and there are examples on display. Many people will have sat on her work while riding on London Transport's buses or Underground trains.
Besides all this work these women artists and wives were remarkable for the richness of the decorations of their own homes- a quality which lives on in photographs at the time, and the tradition of decorating interiors with interesting object d'art, handicrafts, linocut wallpapers and found objects. "
On a related note, we're delighted to be hosting an exhibition of work by Chloe Cheese (Bernard Cheese and Sheila Robinson's daughter) in December 2010.
Chloe studied at Cambridge Art School and then the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited at galleries worldwide and has work in public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Arts Council of Great Britain.
'Women of Bardfield' opens on Sunday 4th April 2010 at the Fry Art Gallery.
If you'd like to receive an invitation to Chloe's exhibition with us in December, please sign up for our e-mail newsletter. In the meantime, you can view examples of her prints at our online print store.
Posted by Simon Lewin on March 27th, 2010
David Gentleman
Posted by Simon Lewin
This week sees the opening of a new exhibition at the Fine Art Society on Bond Street.
'David Gentleman at Eighty' celebrates the 80th birthday of this artist and designer who has worked in a range media - wood engraving, watercolour and lithography.
The exhibition also sees the launch of a new edition of 'Ask The Fellows Who Cut The Hay' by George Ewart Evans (Gentleman's father-in-law) which is illustrated throughout by 60 of the artist's beautiful watercolour paintings and drawings. David worked on the images all through the summer, autumn and winter of 2009 in Blaxhall, the Suffolk village on which the book is centred.
The exhibition runs at the Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London, during March and April 2010. You can find out more about the book via the Full Circle website.
Posted by Simon Lewin on March 23rd, 2010
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