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Shewolf T-Shirt Giveaway

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
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Having written the names of all those lovely people who entered onto some lurid green scraps of paper last night. I put all the entrants names in my upturned woolly hat for the red one to draw out a name at random and I can now announce that the winner is…..Cat_2802.


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Drum roll please… I’ve just printed up my first ever batch of t-shirts and in a way of a celebration, and because I’m over excitable, I thought I’d offer up one shirt for FREE to a lucky follower, friend, fan, fiend, or farmyard animal.

This is a limited edition run of just 50 shirts which have all been screen-printed by my own fair, and purple, hands. The design has been printed with black pigment and then heat-pressed with some lovely shiny silver foil (as you can see pictured above).

The sexy Shewolf design is taken from the series of hand drawn Bestial Drawings that I’ve been working on over the last twelve months or so.

To be in with a chance of winning one of these shiny new shirts you’ll need to leave a wonderfully exuberant comment below or retweet one of the millions of tweets that I’m likely to post to Twitter in the next few days. Alternatively you can post a direct link to this article in a tweet. If you’re posting directly on Twitter be sure to mention me (@Spike_Dennis) so that I don’t miss your tweet.

The deadline is 23.59 (GMT) on Sunday 4 December 2011. I’ll put all of your names in a big wintery woolly hat and pick a winner sometime on Monday morning.

if you don’t win this giveaway don’t fret as the shirts will be available to buy from my Spikeworld shop from Monday next week in small, medium and large sizes. This is a limited edition print run of just 50 shirts so be sure to snap one up quickly; when they’re gone, they’re gone!

www.spikeworld.co.uk/shop

Terms & Conditions: There are none. I shall be as fair and honest as I possibly can be but I reserve the right to make things up as I go along.

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Infographics Exhibition Part 2

Friday, October 21st, 2011
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*Image: Work by Juan Manuel De J. Escalante and Rob Stevens at the Cardiff Story Museum

Following a successful exhibition at The Sho Gallery I have been invited to take the Infographics exhibition to the Cardiff Design Festival Headquarters at the Cardiff Story Museum in the city centre. The exhibition is open now and will continue until the 9 November featuring work by an international selection of artists and designers including:

  • Alix Martin
  • Amy Kett
  • Daniel Ulf-Hansen
  • Innes Jones
  • Juan Manuel De J. Escalante
  • Mario Klingemann
  • Matt McKenna
  • Ninian Carter
  • Phil McCollam & Ellen Mueller
  • Rob Stevens

The infographic works can be seen alongside a range of other work that was a part of the Cardiff Design Festival. This includes information about some of the work short-listed for the Best of Welsh Design Awards and work by illustrators Amelia Johnstone and Anna Bhushan.

Entry to the Cardiff Story Museum is free and the opening hours are
Monday to Saturday: 10.00am – 5.00pm
Sunday: 11.00am – 4.00pm

Photographs from both the exhibition at The Sho Gallery and The Cardiff Story Museum can be seen on my Flickr pages here.

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Infographics Exhibition Opening

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
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*Image: From the ‘A Guiding Film’ series by Phil McCollam & Ellen Muellers

Exhibition opens: 4 October 2011

Exhibition celebration: Wednesday 12 October 2011, 7.00 – 10.00pm



I have organised and curated the forthcoming exhibition at The Sho Gallery to coincide with the Cardiff Design festival 2011. The Sho Gallery will host work by an international selection of artists and designers whose work addresses the current trend for information visuals, or ‘Infographics. The breadth of topics covered is vast; visitors to the gallery will be inspired, shocked, educated, enlightened, and perhaps most importantly, made to smile.

Difficult subject matter is dealt with by local creative designer Alix Martin as well as Mexican artist Juan
Manuel De J. Escalante. Using data provided by Welsh Women’s Aid (www.welshwomensaid.org) Martin examines the problem of sexual assaults against women in Wales and the UK. Similarly Escalante examines problems arising from within the society in which he lives in Central America through a generative work inspired by statistics from the Mexican Presidential Office relating to the deaths caused by the country’s drug wars.

A lighter side to the exhibition can be seen in a number of works such as Mario Klingemann’s Dada inspired response to the current trend for infographics and a series of ‘How To’ videos by American artists Phil McCollam & Ellen Mueller. During the Cardiff Design Festival visitors to Sho Gallery will not only be visually stimulated but they will have the opportunity to learn how to find water in the wilderness and how to communicate non-verbally with extraterrestrials.

Exhibitors:

Alix Martin \ Amy Kett \ Chris Glynn \ Daniel Ulf-Hansen \ Hole in My Pocket \ Innes Jones \ Juan Manuel De J. Escalante \ Mario Klingemann \ Matt McKenna \ Ninian Carter \ Phil McCollam & Ellen Mueller \ Rob Stevens \ See What You Mean

Location:

The SHO Gallery, The Coach House, 1A Inverness Place, Roath, Cardiff CF24 4RU

Opening Hours:

Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Wednesday: 10.00 – 17.30
Thursday: 10.00 – 18.30
Friday: 10.00 – 17.30
Sunday – 11.00 – 4.00

Further information:

www.thesho.co.uk
www.cardiffdesignfestval.org

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Open Call: Infographics

Monday, September 5th, 2011
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Due to technical problems with our domain late submissions for this project will still be considered for the exhibition up until the end of this week (9 September). Please email your submissions to exhibitions{at}eye-sore.co.uk. If you still have difficulties sending your submission please contact me here.

Submissions are invited from artists, illustrators and designers for a forthcoming exhibition of intelligent infographics at the Sho Gallery**, Cardiff. The exhibition is scheduled to coincide with the 2011 Cardiff Design Festival taking place in October (www.cardiffdesignfestival.org).

Artists are free to interpret any information that that they feel fit although submissions that address current social or political issues will be particularly welcome. Ultimately however, you should feel free to select a source of information because it inspires you whether it is pertinent to us today, or simply because you feel that it might just make a very cool informative visual.

Find those hidden connections and patterns that lie beneath the raw data and re-present the information in a dynamic way which helps us to better understand it. Inspire us, shock us, make us smile, educate and enlighten us.

It is expected that the majority of submissions will be two dimensional but all media will be considered. New approaches, new media and submissions in three dimensions and beyond are actively encouraged.

Submission Guidelines:

  • Submit up to 3 works.
  • Please only send low resolutions images of your work via email at this time (which should be saved as .jpg or .pdf files and be no larger than 1mb).
  • A brief statement explaining the reason that you have selected the specific information that you have chosen to illustrate/interpret (maximum 100 words).
  • A concise CV/bio including contact details.
  • Details of work as appropriate, eg. Title, Media, Source.
  • NB. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines might not be considered.

Submission Deadline
Submissions should be emailed to exhibitions[a]eye-sore.co.uk no later than Friday 2 September 2011.

Images
Top: Chris Glynn – ‘Modular Dog’
Front: Ninian Carter: ‘Transnationals’

**The project was originally due to be scheduled at the Milkwood Gallery but due to logistical reasons it has been relocated to the Sho Gallery (www.thesho.co.uk), also in Roath, Cardiff.

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Bestial T-Shirts

Monday, August 8th, 2011
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I spent the Saturday just gone holed up in the print studio experimenting with some of my drawings as screen prints. After experimenting with a handful of drawings I settled on producing a test run with one of my bestial drawings. I produced a very short run of tee shirts using the she wolf drawing from this series.

The shirts were created using a two stage screen printed process. The black shadow was screened first, once dry the outline drawing was layered over the top using Texiflock for foil. The shirts were then heat pressed using a silver mylar foil to seal the foil to the area printed using the Texiflock. They were printed completely freehand so the silver line drawing was lined up with the black shadow as best as possible by eye meaning each tee is just ever so slightly different from the others.

Click on the thumbnails below to view some further images of the finished t-shirts.

I’m really happy with the results and am contemplating producing a proper limited edition run of these shirts in the not too distant future.

In the meantime I have a couple of spare shirts following this test run. Maybe I’ll run a little give-away via my trusty Twitter feed or perhaps I’ll auction them off for charity… who knows. Watch this space.

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