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not long to go
it looks our public art collaboration with rachel welford and john clarke will be installed w/c 8th february. you can see progress of the project over at www.railwayart.com
rachel and i presented the project to students on the school’s creative and media diploma at the start of the year which prompted some good questions. the students are in process of delivering a project about documenting sense of place so there was lots in common with our piece.
[note to self - must blog about the diploma soon...]
the writing’s on the wall
typography-art commission at york and hull medical school – part of scarborough hospital. the work was commissioned by hafney [hospital arts for north east yorkshire] responding to some specific requirements:
it’s situated in a corridor which doubles as a waiting area for people arriving for interviews with windows on each side – one looks into the library and the other into an office. the work was required to obscure the office window giving some privacy without blocking light, reference to the library would be appreciated [hence a design made of words] and a some relevance to the medical school in general. we selected words from the school’s prospectus for an initial design and then further words were suggested by the school’s staff.
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what a complete waste of a day
artists book for rachel howfield. we designed this towards the end of 2009 in time for rachel to take copies to new york where she was exhibiting at a.i.r gallery. rachel’s work often explores the tension of being a practising artist and a wife and mother and she led a discussion at a.i.r on the topic. intrigued? why not follow rachel’s blog. say hello and she might even send you a book.
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the shop of priceless things
our most recent public art commission – a collaboration with poet john w clarke. the shop of priceless things is in rotherham town centre.
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when is an annual report not an annual report?
not a joke from a christmas cracker but artworks creative communities annual report 2008-2009. similar to the report-cum-calendar we designed for coast and moors voluntary action, our solution for artworks responds to the challenge of keeping a report in people’s hands throughout the year.
it’s a little unusual in that most of the pages are blank. artworks trade in creative ideas so we thought it appropriate that they gave away sketchbooks in which other people could put their ideas. inserted at intervals throughout the book are pages of handwritten and stuck-in information on specific strands of work that can be discovered by chance. the covers both fold out to reveal the generic information.
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opening soon
photo from the press call at ‘the shop of priceless things’ in rotherham on friday. poet john w clarke admiring some of the stock collected from the people of rotherham, me dressed as a tugboat captain for no reason other than it’s the warmest jumper i have. james behind the lens.
as you can see, this was taken part-way through the window graphics being applied – which was proving to be a struggle at only 5°. there are some tweaks being applied this week and we’ll have pics of the whole shop – all nine windows – early next week.
we’re opening a shop
we’re moving into the world of retail with a shop in rotherham town centre. the ’shop of priceless things’ [formerly burger king - above] opens this saturday and is a collaboration with poet john w clarke.
we’ll blog some images next week.
chart in print
this month’s renaissance news includes a centrepsread about CHART Scarborough so far – or you can catch up on the blog. it’s the first time the logo has been seen in print and gives a hint as to how it’s designed to be used as a containing shape as well as traditional logo. it’s going to be cropping up all over the place shortly – if you see us wandering around town measuring up various windows and signboards on monday you’ll gather something is cooking…
more names, more faces
photos of our two full walls for the ‘name to a face’ exhibition. the mood of two distinct areas of the exhibition was of piecing together information, notably about victorian society photographer sarony, and making sense of a vast archive of material from a scarborough family. visitors to the show were encouraged to add any further enlightenment to the material on display.
to echo that theme we developed a chequerboard approach to the interpretation panels that was both very cost-effective and allowed some freedom for extra works to be added. initial layout ideas for the two walls were produced in the studio and then we helped place and fix the panels in the gallery.
other interpretation panels for the exhibition match in style and all the prints have a textured laminate and are wrapped to give the effect of canvases to tie in with the paintings that formed the rest of the exhibition.
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below you can see one of sarah venus’s wonderful wall paintings in the background – we incorporated a corner frame design by sarah into the panels for a cohesive look.
