These photographs are of the Mail Art exhibition initiated by Marie-Louise plum as exhibited in Bedford on the 22 & 23 September 2012. This exhibition organised by Anne-Marie Stijelja followed a previous show that I curated for Marie at The Printhaus in Cardiff earlier this summer. The exhibition has since been exhibited in Lincoln as well.
You can view a full set of the photographs from the Cardiff leg of the show on my Flickr pages here.
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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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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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This little drawing which I’ve entitled ‘The Postman Always Delivers’ is something I concocted for magical Marie-Louise Plum’s current mail art project. It’s currently on display in Walthamstow, London, and I understand there may be plans to tour this wonderful collection of work… watch this space!
There is a rolling call for submissions so if you’d like to contribute to this project have a look at the details on Mademoiselle Plum’s website right here >> www.marielouiseplum.com. The current call has a deadline of the 2 April 2012 so get your doodle on kids.
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*Images courtesy of KITCHEN projects, 2011
I’ve had news just in that the Britt and Jon of the Trans-Siberian Art Centre has succesfully made it all the way from Moscow to Beijing. The project involved the team taking over one of the carriages on the trans-siberian train and turning it into a nomadic art space with a somewhat captive audience.
You can see from the pictures above how the carriage was decorated with contribution from an array of different artists, including your favourite purple spiky fine artist. If you look carefully you can see my contribution in the photographs above.
As Jon and Britt confess the the T-SAC started ‘as an idea that didn’t have much more genesis than a “Why not?” being laid on the pub table one night’. By all accounts the project turned out to be a roaring success.
In addition to the exhibition of postcard sized artworks, travellers were also treated to a number of performances pieces both in the carriage and on the station platforms along the way including ‘Slap’ by Anastasia Klose which sounds like it was interesting accomplpishment given the space restrictions.
You should definitely head on over to the T-SAC blog and read the teams brief account of their adventures: http://trans-siberianartscentre.blogspot.com.
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The Cut-Click mail art exhibition is continuing to tour around the UK. The next exhibition opens this Tuesday 1 February 2011, at the Artlandish Gallery, Cleethorpes. Amongst the fine contributions are a couple of contributions from myself so why not pop along and see if you can spot them.
Keen followers will no doubt remember that yours truly organised and curated the Cardiff leg of the exhibition’s tour all the way back in August 2010. You can still view my little time-lapse video of the exhibition installation right here.
Cut-Click Mail Art Exhbition
Artlandish Gallery
The Discovery Centre
Cleethorpes
1 – 28 February 2011
10.00am – 4.00pm
The exhibition is due to travel to St Helens later this year to be part of Soapbox 2011.
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I got this lovely little treat in the post yesterday.
I took part in the Birmingham Zine Festival’s postcard exhibition back in September. The postcards that were submitted were then sent back to a different exhibitor once the show was over. I’d completely forgotten about it as it’s been a while since the show was up so it was a nice surprise to receive this little artwork. It’s signed ‘Earpsie’ who I’m guessing is Craig Earp. You can check out his work here: www.graphic-design-birmingham-uk.co.uk
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I received my copy of Mail Me Art: Medium Without a Message (ISBN: 978-0-9566320-0-5) this week which is the catalogue of a little project that I took part in earlier this year that culminated in an exhibition in Brixton, London, in July.
The book features work by artists and designers for all over the world who all contributed a piece of their work to this project. If you would like to get your hands on a copy of this book you should visit the Mail Me Art website here.
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