These are just a couple of quick sketches I roughed up as I worked through an idea for a new art project. They’re drawn on paper with cotton thread and black ink.
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With my being involved in two exhibitions at Milkwood Gallery back-to-back I thought I’d better re-visit the space whilst it was empty to get an idea of the size and shape of the space available.
They’re crude sketches but they’re functional and I’m happy now that the gallery will neither be too cluttered nor too bare.
The first exhibition, Project Cardiff, opens on Saturday 2 February and features a set of photographs taken by Lann Niziblian. The second exhibition will present the first time I’ve ever exhibited my own work at Milkwood Gallery as the Pack of Wolves take over the space for Once Upon again.
www.packofwolves.org
www.milkwoodgallery.com
www.projectcardiff.com
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I’m currently working on a design for a new embroidery for the Pack of Wolves’ next exhibition – Once Upon Again – at Milkwood Gallery in Cardiff next spring.
The ‘brief’ for the exhibition has presented me with a new challenge in working with narrative based sources materials from old fairy tales – this one is from an old Russian tale about Baba Yaga. I’ve taken my inspiration for the layout of this piece of work from the old hand embroidered samplers that were produced by people wishing to practices their stitching in years gone by.
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These are some of the sketches I’ve been working on in preparation for a new work I’m undertaking for the Pack of Wolves’ next exhibition – ‘Once Upon Again’ – next year.
The drawings are inspired the old Russian folk tale about a young girl called Vasilissa who encounters an old witch know as the Baba Yaga. As with many old fairy tales there are different versions of the Baba Yaga story and I’ve taken my inspiration from different versions of these to produce the sketches pictured here which include a cat weaving threads, a dog eating bread and Vasilissa running away with a skull lantern.
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These are a couple of sketches that I drew as a part of my research for the next Pack of Wolves exhibition which is entitled Once Upon Again.
Once upon Again will be an exhibition of fairy tale inspired work. The title suggests the idea of re-imagined narratives – taking existing fairy and folk tales and retelling them.
The sketches above are inspired by the Russian tale about a witch named Baba Yaga and a Norwegian fairy tale called Tatterhood. I’m working towards some new embroidered works for this exhibition – these sketches are just the start.
In Russian folklore there are many stories of Baba Yaga, the fearsome witch with iron teeth. Her nose is so long that it rattles against the ceiling of her hut when she snores, stretched out in all directions upon her ancient brick oven. Not being a boringly-conventional witch, she does not wear a hat, and has never been seen on a broomstick. She travels perched in a large mortar with her knees almost touching her chin, and pushes herself across the forest floor with a pestle.
The tale of Tatterhood is quite common in Norway and Iceland and tells the tale of a beautiful princess and her ugly twin ‘Tatterhood’.
During a battle with the trolls the beautiful sister’s head is snatched off by a troll and replaced with a calf’s head, after which the trolls flee from the castle. To restore her sister’s head, Tatterhood sets off in a ship with no crew or company aside from her own sister. They arrive at the isle of the trolls and Tatterhood battles the trolls and successfully regain her sister’s head.
‘Once Upon Again’ will be exhibited at Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff, in February/March 2013. For more information visit www.packofwolves.org
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We recently issued an open call for Mail Art submissions for the second exhibition of a project initiated by Marie-Louise Plum. The images below are of soe of those submissions received during this leg of the exhibition which will be exhibited at The Printhaus in Cardiff until the 22 July 2012.
You can find out more about this project here.
by James Green: www.jg-gallery.blogspot.co.uk
by Matt Joyce: www.themeekshall.co.uk
by Sarah Churchill: www.purplepepperdesign.co.uk
by Marnie Blair: www.mailrat.blogspot.ca
The Open Call for this mail art project is ongoing. Please click here to find out more.
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This is a little something I sent to Gem Barton for her Scan.It project which is exploring the use of scanning as an alternative to photography.
I took my porcelain doll and scanned it at 300dpi in black and white. I then printed out a number of copies of this image and drew on them as in the image above before scanning the composite images again at 300dpi but this time in colour.
There’s still time to take part; click here to download the brief and then simply email your Scan.It work to hello[at]gembarton.com with your name, a title and short description before July 15th. Some of these images will be selected for use in an exhibition at Gallery40, Brighton.
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The Printhaus, 70A Llandaff Road, Cardiff CF11 9NL
We’ll provide pens and envelopes for you to make your own contribution to this Mail Art project whilst you join us for a drink and a look around the exhibition so far.
image by Chetan Kumar | www.cheism.com
This is an open call for mail art from around the UK and the world.
Mail Art: E17 was the first stop of a touring exhibition of mail art from artists and illustrators across the globe. Following a lengthy and successful exhibition at Walthamstow Wine Club in east London the exhibition has now made its way to The Printhaus in Cardiff, Wales.
Submissions received during the first exhibition period in London will be displayed at The Printhaus from Tuesday 10 July until Sunday 22 July 2012.
In addition to this we are now seeking new submissions to add to the exhibition which will be exhibited at the Printhaus when received and added to the collection of mail art to be exhibited at further venues later in the year.
We are seeking art on any subject and in any form with the one stipulation which is that the art relates to a mailable or mailed form. For example, that could be art on jiffy bags, envelopes, brown paper, packages, art using stamps, printed or franked labels, mail stickers, stencils or mail delivery cards. You can draw, paint, cut, stick and glue, cut-out, construct, scribble or print. Anything goes.
If you would like to take part in the exhibition please email mail[at]marielouiseplum.com or send your work directly to
Spike Dennis
Mail Art: Cardiff
c/o Cardiff School of Art & Design
Howard Gardens
Cardiff CF24 0SP
The deadline for submissions to the Mail Art project is ongoing however, please do not post work for this leg of the exhibition any later than the 20 July 2012.
The exhibition opens on Tuesday 10 July 2012. There will be an open evening on Friday 13 July 20102 from 6.00 – 9.00pm at The Printhaus so do please come and join us for a drink. The exhibition continues until the 22 July (access during open access hours only see www.theprinthaus.org for more information)
Read more about the world-wide cultural movement of Mail Art here.
The Printhaus
70A Llandaff Road
Canton
Cardiff CF11 9NL
Open Evening: Friday 13 July 2012, 6.00 – 9.00pm
Exhibition open: 10 – 22 July 2012 (open access hours only)
Cardiff submission deadline: Friday 20 July 2012
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