electric angel /design for life

hey, who’s been doodling on our walls?

tsk, you open your studio to an artist and next thing you know there’s graffiti everywhere.

actually we’re rather delighted with these montages that snake around the walls – a visual trail along the coasts of spain, portugal, france and morocco – to accompany the paintings in ‘view from the back: journal of a surf trip’. the paintings aim to evoke the 6 month surf trip which in kathryn’s words “is as much about encounters with people we met, the surfing lifestyle and the landscapes as the surfing itself”. kathryn is also exhibiting postcards she created and sent to her then one year old niece from the journey which document the minutiae (even the camper van sink!) as well as the bigger stories.

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preview is this friday then it’s open whenever we’re open – usually 9.30-5.00 monday to friday or just get in touch if you’d like us to open up specially – we’re very happy to do so.

fossil festival

the natural history museum have come to town for scarborough fossil festival which is taking place at venues across the town this weekend. the advance publicity is in the format of a leaflet folding out to form a poster with details of the events on the reverse.

posters and banners at venues promote the event across the town – they seem to be working if the people heading into the rotunda museum as i took this photo are anything to go by.

openings and open studios

this morning we’re sending out invitations to the opening of kathryn welford’s exhibition ‘view from the back: journal of a surf trip’. they feature one of kathryn’s watercolours on the front which are a fascinating mix of traditional style and documentary subject matter – i suspect several of these invites will end up framed and on people’s walls. anyway, if you’d like to join us for a drink and to meet kathryn on the 25th june, please do come along. likewise, drop us an email to be added to our mailing list for exhibition openings and other creative stuff.

we’re also sending them out in time for people to call in and watch kathryn work as part of north yorkshire open studios which begins this weekend when she’ll be painting on the gallery walls. there are lots of opportunities to visit local artists as part of open studios. we’d like to give a shout out to our regular collaborator and first ever exhibitor in our tiny gallery, rachel. we’ll be paying her a visit because despite working together regularly i’ve never been to her studio!

a shout also to local photographer graham who exhibited with us last year and now has his own tiny gallery down at the harbour, to andrew also down in the bait sheds for whom we designed exhibition panels when he was exhibiting at scarborough art gallery (and does beautiful work), and to gaby who exhibited some wonderful new ceramic work in the east coast open.

slave labour

is it me, or are these work placement students getting younger…?