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South Wales Echo Press Clipping

Sunday, December 18th, 2011
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I received this little press cutting via Mother Spike. Apparently one of her friends had spotted my name in the South Wales Echo last Monday, 12 December. Although it gives the impression that I was interviewed for the piece the first I heard of it was on Friday morning. It seems that the paper misquoted the news article about the ‘On The Map’ exhibition that I posted on Spikeworld last week. I’m not particularly bothered by that; being referred to as ‘Mr Dennis’ is rather discomforting though. It almost makes me sound like a grown up!!

To be honest I found it it a little odd that the South Wales Echo would run an article, no matter how small, about an exhibition in Hastings that doesn’t open for a good three months. Not that I’m complaining; it’s nice of them to give me a mention. Should they be so kind as to give me a shout out in the future though I hope they won’t be too shy to give me a call first. After all I don’t bite.

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Shadow Play: Peter & The Wolf

Thursday, December 15th, 2011
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I headed over to Tommy’s Bar in Cardiff last night to watch some wonderous shadow puppet shows by Year 1 & 2 Illustration Students from Cardiff School of Art & Design. The puppets were absolutely beautiful and all of the performances were totally spellbinding.

This performance of Peter and The Wolf by Layla Holzer was the first of the night and set the perfect tone for the rest of the evening. This was followed by Hans Christian-Andersen’s The Snow Queen which was told in seven parts. Clips of those tales will be available to view via the Illustration Cardiff blog in the next few days.

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Anomie

Sunday, October 30th, 2011
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an·o·mie or an·o·my (n-m)
n.
1. Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
2. Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals.

*OS Sheet 171 1:50,000 Landranger Series: Cardiff & Newport

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Infographics Exhibition Part 2

Friday, October 21st, 2011
Posted in: Blog, Exhibitions, News Feed


*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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Venice Vending Machine

Thursday, September 8th, 2011
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I’m happy to be taking part of the Venice Vending Machine project: an Installation, to be shown at venues in Venice from the 15 to the 30 September 2011.

This dual sited installation will be hosted by Italian partners Microclima, an artistic project at the Serra dei Giardini and with Laura Ostan at the Contemporary Art Galleria Perela.

Vending machines will be installed at each of the two venues and filled with plastic spherical capsules that will each contain a work of art by one of the contributing artists. Visitors to the space will be able to purchase or barter for a token with which to release an orb from the machine.

‘Each sphere represents the light, a world, an artist, a creative seed and will contain an original piece of diverse artwork produced by both emerging and established artists. Through the game of interaction and the inherent chance of the machine, an automatic distributor, an exchange takes place for both the artist and receiver of the art work.’*

Click here to view some images of the work that I have contributed to the project.

The project has been curated by Ann Jordan from Elysium Gallery in Swansea and Marina Moreno from ART-E-MOTION.

Related Links:
www.venicevendingmachine.com
www.galleriaperela.it
www.serradeigiardini.org
www.microclima-venezia.com
www.elysiumgallery.com

*Source: Elysium Gallery

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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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Hiraeth

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
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Hiraeth is a Welsh word that has no direct English translation. However, the University of Wales, Lampeter attempts to define it as homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost or departed. It is a mix of longing, yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness, and the earnest desire for the Wales of the past.*

*source: Wikipedia

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Soul Map

Sunday, July 31st, 2011
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I’ve been working towards a new serious of drawings that have developed from a use of words and letters as marks. As you can see above the new works are drawn upon old Ordnance Survey sheets. This particular piece is being drawn upon OS Sheet 107: Snowdon (1962).

It’s considerably more difficult to concentrate on one of these map drawings than earlier drawings with words I created on plain paper. After having spent a good couple of hours hunched over the paper place names and other points of reference suddenly jump out and I find myself fighting an urge to write these words upon the map rather than my own elected mantra.

I’m quite happy with the way the works are progressing but I think I might need to look at using a finer pen. The maps are of course quite detailed and the colours are rather mute which has led to them being completely over powered by the weight of my words as they are currently written.

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Photomarathon Exhibition

Sunday, July 31st, 2011
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Topic Winner: My Entry Number – Work of Art (Olwen Moseley)

The Cardiff Photomarathon 2011 exhibition opened at the Old Library (aka. The Cardiff Story Museum) in the city centre this weekend. I took part in the event last month on the 11 June and so you can see the pictures that I shot along with copies of the images taken by the other 399 entrants.

Unfortunately I didn’t scoop any prizes for my efforts but one of my colleagues did; Olwen Moseley won the topic prize for My Entry Number: Work of Art (pictured above). The images by the category winnwers along with the overall winners take pride of place at the exhibition so you should pop in to take a look if you find yourself in Cardiff city centre during the next week or two.

The Photomarathon exhibition will be on show at The Old Library until the 20 August 2011 (10.00am – 4.00pm Monday to Saturday and 11.00am – 4.00pm on Sunday).

If you’re not local, or just plain lazy, you can see a selection of the winning pictures on the BBC Wales website here; and you’ll find my own efforts on my blog here.

For more information about the Photomarathon: www.photomarathon.co.uk

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Call for Papers: Illustration & Writing Symposium

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
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Illustration & Writing: Visual Languages

2nd International Illustration Research Symposium in conjunction with the Writing PAD network.

North Wales School of Art & Design, Glyndwr University
Thursday 3rd November 2011

“I must Create my own System or be Enslav’d by another Man’s”
– WILLIAM BLAKE

Following on from Shadow Play in Cardiff in November 2010, the 2nd International Illustration Research Symposium looks to illustration as an expression of the ‘primary language of vision’ (Kepes) and aims to integrate its practices and philosophies, both historical and emerging. The event seeks to expand the theoretical and practical frameworks and nuances of this potent and far-reaching discipline.

The call for papers throws the net widely on illustration’s primary intentions: the visualisation of concepts, poetic and rhetoric expression, the elaborative encoding of information and memory through analogy, metaphor and marginalia. We invite papers which explore the synergy between word and image, word as image, the subversive interrogation of text, and the telling of stories through imagery.

Illustration and Writing will look at illustration as visual language, and reflect on the role of the image within, around and in place of writing.

We hope to explore the ways that purposeful images can augment, clarify or problematise meaning in relation to text.

We welcome papers covering the following themes;

  • Illustration as interrogation of text
  • Illustration as translation
  • Fact and truth in illustration
  • Narrative and allegorical illustration
  • Redefining illustration for children
  • Non-fiction, scientific and medical illustration
  • Image and text/Text as image
  • Hybrid writing
  • Visual thinking
  • Image perception and cognition
  • Illustration, memory and knowledge
  • The use of illustration within different education scenarios
  • Illustration within and in place of academic writing

Abstracts of no more than 500 words (or recorded presentations of no more than 5 minutes long) should be sent to Desdemona McCannon: d.mccannon@glyndwr.ac.uk.

Submission deadline: 7 July 2011

Selected papers will be published in issue 1 of volume 5 (5:1) of the Journal of Writing for Creative Practice.

Click Here to download this call for papers as a .pdf document.

http://illustrationresearch.co.uk/index.php/illustration-and-writing-symposium

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