Exhibition

The exhibition is all up on the walls on an amazing, heavily engineered steel hanging system.

We got it up pretty quickly considering, possibly because we were eager to get to the on site cafe - Kitchen by Mike. Marcela and Alistair did all the ladder stuff - thank you!

Go see it! Its up at Koskela, 1/85 Dunning Avenue, Rosebery Sydney.

A selection of the editioned posters and larger prints will be available via my shop from Thursday 23rd. Framed prints and the large format prints are exclusive to Koskela.

Frames are from Ryan Ward at United Measures - beautiful!

Fluro pink, red or yellow splines.

Some prints are available to purchase here.

Exhibition hanging

Thanks to the very lovely Marcela and of course my ever patient better half, Alistair, we got up part of the exhibition today.... I've not seen all the prints together in their entirety seeing as 6 of them were so big they had to go straight to storage because I had no room for them. It's a little bit overwhelming!

On view at Koskela, 1/85 Dunning Avenue, Rosebery, Sydney from Wednesday 22nd February.

Not only is there beautiful furniture and homewares available, but also a fantastic cafe. I salivate just thinking about going in there.

Its always a strange (but good) sensation when something catches my eye in a magazine or a book....... or a billboard and I think "I did that!"
Usually because there's a bit of a wait, it's an odd disconnect - work that was completed months before.
The V sugar free campaign, with Clemenger BBDO, however was only completed last month so it's still fresh to me and it's definitely one I have the warm and fuzzies for.
Yesterday I walked the dog and came across the first outside our local vet, then throughout a day of deliveries, pickups and constant driving I saw them all over Sydney CBD.
There's 8 different versions and the thing I love the most about the post production was that the little imperfections were kept in and not photoshopped out.

It being Valentines Day, Alistair knows that chocolates don't cut it with me....

Months later...

Its been a crazy busy couple of months, what with Christmas, Australia Day, work and school holidays. Add to that, a visit from my Father, over from London, a couple of births and the sudden death of an old friend, it's been a bit of an emotional roller coaster.

I've managed to keep quite quiet for a while, which for those who know me know that keeping my gob shut for more than 10 minutes is a stretch. However, to replace my noise, I'm now completely hooked on instagram. 

Addicted, well and truly. Probably better to replace my noisy noise with visual for a while!

Here's some of the nicer things that have happened over the last fortnight or so.... plus a video for KG of her proxy dog Stan.

Especially for Kate Gibb because apparently, she was sick of looking at the last post.
Busy honey, I've been busy!

A day off to explore...

via 

Koskela

Oh my gosh, look what I found downstairs at Koskelas pop up shop in Potts Point.....

In the New Year, in Koskelas all new and full on AMAZING space, there will be an overload of astronauts, circles, geometrics and 3 metre long screen prints.
All the big prints are being beautifully framed by my local framer, Warren who has hand massaged beeswax into metres of certified Australian wood and also by Ryan at United Measures who is making the Fluro splined frames for the posters.
I am being thoroughly spoilt and having the time of my life.

I love my job.

Those cushions are made by PonyRider, the over sized ones are fantastic.

Still not sick of fluro.....

Disturbing the Universe.

Thanks to Anthony David Adams for sending me this.

I've finally got around to reading it.

So good.

Remember the macbook air for NRMA?

You can win it via Tech Daily where you can also hear a brief interview about the job.

My Fluro World

For the exhibition.... still on the fluro tip.

Laptop and a can of spray paint....

I had a plum job a while back with NRMA insurance, working with the fashion journalist Melissa Hoyer. I had to screen print a laptop cover for Melissa using the NRMA blue as a base and represent her lifestyle in some way - hectic is the only way to sum it up.
You can see the viral campaign to go with the promotion for portable contents insurance here with a surfboard for Hoppo and a necklace for Charlotte Dawson.
Sadly (or luckily - I need a haircut!) there's not one of Melissa and I - wasn't enough space in the studio for a film crew.
That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
So it went from this to the pics below.
The first spray layer was nerve wracking, I ended up printing it onto heavy duty stickered vinyl.

Yesterday I spent the day at my silkscreen suppliers utilising their large vacuum table and their cool surroundings. Managed to get started on my A0 prints.

There's something to be said for working inside, on a day when it was over 30C outside. 

Spring has definitely sprung and I've found fluro pink ink in some strange places.

Today however, you'll be finding me languishing in the local pool. 

This weekend

I'll be mainly trimming the first batch of 800 posters.

By hand. 

Individually. 

Ouch.

Hope you all have a good one.

Pattern shape colour.

via Julian

Exhibition Starts

I've got a rather large exhibition coming up in Sydney, in January which I'm preparing for. I'm working with an amazing company, full of inspiring, talented and of course, well dressed people, details to follow shortly. Of the exhibition and my hosts, that is, not on what they're wearing.

Some pictures, in the meantime, of some of the roughs I'm working on.

There's will be 15 Astronaut themed posters (surprise, eh!) in editions of 50 and 15 very large abstract mono prints. Plus, to boot, some homewares - bedlinen, cushion covers and a few other special things if Lady Time is kind to me.

My arms ache already and I'm not yet halfway through printing the posters.

I'm really lucky to have got Ryan from United Measures doing the vast bulk of my framing - nothing like some special fluro splines!

RIP Jimmy

I used to write to Jimmy Saville on his show 'Jim'll Fix It', every couple of months, much like many of my friends, always with the tiniest bit of hope that our dream would be made to come true......"Dear Jimmy, will you fix it for me to go to space/ get a new sister, because my one is annoying/ ride a racehorse." 

I never got a reply, but eventually, I managed to achieve one of my wishes (ride is probably overstating a claim, fall off multiple times at speed is probably truer), plus my sister and I eventually decided we actually liked one another a lot. 

Space has yet to be tucked into my pocket.

RIP Jimmy, you were a huge inspiration to me and always gave off the impression of being an all round good guy.

Pic by Arthur Steel

Warranty

Well and truly voided by the time you read this, I imagine.

75 Peters invite

As part of the 75 Peters exhibition, Sir Peter Cook will be giving a talk about some of CRABs most recent projects. 

Would love to go myself, plus have a visit to the galleries in Brisbane, but alas it's not to be.

The auction for the artworks will be up at the Adam & Eve projects, organised by the charming Scott Woods.

Inspiring

Beautiful work by Hester Stinnett.

Especially love these lithographs.