Final Flyer Design For New Walls

Here is the final edit I have created for the New Walls flyer design. Thursday 15th September, from 6pm. Get Involved. Good Times and Good Art.

"Brothers" illustrated poetry

"Brothers" Is a poem created over many years by my friend (and poet) Markus Lloyd. As a little collaboration I have begun to illustrate said poem.
They will both be available as a signed limited run print at the Aspex gallery affordable art fair in september.
These prints and initial creations are just the beginnings of a larger project and collaboration to illustrate the entire poem.

I have used various found textures and ephemera, alongside my own hand drawn images. i have also included the original section of poetry relative to each image.

I hope you enjoy x

NEW WALLS at the one eyed dog design

So this is the new poster design I have created for the next "NEW WALLS" event at the one eyed dog.

The original is completely hand drawn, A3 size and took about ten hours and a whole biro to complete. It will be AVAILABLE as a LIMITED RUN PRINT early september.

it will either be called "Biro's are shit hot, but Southsea's better" or "Southsea still rocks and not a fixie in sight". Haven't decided yet.

Officially in Print for Stalking Elk magazine

So awhile back I posted two images I did for the guys at Stalking Elk magazine, Lockerbie bomber article. Well they have just sent me a copy hot off the press. So grab yourself a copy if your in London town anytime soon and see it lurking about! Proper x

When Work Is Empty My Sketchbook Isn't

New Sketchbook pages from when I have a chance to draw at work.

Islington Arts Factory Summer Salon Preview Night

Well I had an enjoyable night with seeing some awesome artwork and some very old friends. The preview night had a nice hustle and bustle around the arts factory. Big thanks to the guys for having my work in the show. its up for another two weeks so if you have a chance pop in and see it. Here's a few cheeky snaps x

Islington Arts Factory- Summer Salon 2011

Well I'm pleased to say that my Strong Island Work will be on display at the Islington Arts factory Summer Salon. It is this Friday, from half 6 and will be on display for three weeks. Swing by the private view and grab a beer with me or check it out if your up in the big smoke at any point.

Freelance Work for Stalking Elk Magazine

Below are two illustrations I was asked to create to accompany an article about the Lockerbie Bomber. It was a satirical and humorous take on his landmark 600 days survival after being released due to ill health grounds: stating he wouldn't survive three months.
They will be featured in next months StalkingElk magazine.

STRONG ISLAND EXHIBITION WORK

I was born in Portsmouth, England and have lived here all my life. Portsmouh is an Island upon the South coast and renowned for having a strong naval heritage yet often notorious for our island mentality. Over the past few years Portsmouth an Southsea has been building upon its wealth of creative talent within the city. Part of the goings on and activities across the city are blogged about regularly by an unfunded and independent website. www.strong-island.co.uk.

The website has a large following within the city and recently was able to hold it's first ever exhibition at the re-opening of the historical Round Tower in Old Portsmouth. It hadn't been open to the public in a few hundred years. The exhibition featured over 30 local and homegrown creatives work. I was lucky enough to be asked to create some pieces for the show, in response to the brief "Strong Island and what it means to you"

I used a local skateshops famous "Southsea Bronx Strong Island" logo as an outline for my work, then forged three images relating to things I love about the city, Hate about it, and the Historical elements. Hence the title. The images are mixed media alongside collaged ephemera and found objects. Each piece has a very specific colour pallette and are approx 60cm square.

The exhibition had over 4000 visitors in space of two weeks. I was extremely proud to be a part of it. Here's to the next one and the continuation of the love and pride we have in our strong island.

I hope you enjoy x

www.strong-island.co.uk
www.theroundtower.co.uk

1. Love it 2. Or hate it 3. Admit it we've got history

Work from The Futurators

These are two pieces of work I created for the Futurators open source show, held at the Third Floor Arts centre in the Library down town and at Aspex in Gunwharf. Tried to incorporate a theme of looking forward/ to the future. The show was curated and put together by a group of teenagers and the education team at Aspex. It was pretty rad to say the least.

Anyways enjoy

Cut Out Experiments

Few images I have started, not sure if they're finished. May work on them when I can concentrate properly. More coming x

Chose En Quoi Croire

Am off to Paris this weekend and in the vein of my Canadian packs I will be leaving 25 little presents upon the streets. Maybe I will get a few responses, who knows. Anyway more posts to come when I return. Au revoir x

Think Local Magazine

Have been lucky enough to be featured in Think Local Magazine's article upon Art on the South Coast alongside ILoveDust. Pretty chuffed about this and would like to thank all the guys at the magazine for wanting to feature my artwork! Check it out x

Southsea Skatepark Poster Designs

Here are two variations for the Skatepark Poster design. There was an open call for entries amongst local creatives and designers, I chose the orange hued one as my final entry though. The Skatepark is holding an open weekend to kick off the summer season! Get on your boards and bike and get your boots on and celebrate the start of summer!

Round Tower Blog

In the run up to the exhibition there will be behind the scenes and sneak peek images from the build up. Keep checking the round tower blog for regular updates of everyones work. Below are a few images of my work so far. Click the title for a link to the official blog!

STRONG ISLAND EXHIBITION AT THE ROUND TOWER

I am pleased to announce that the lovely people at Strong Island have asked me to submit work to be included in the upcoming exhibition at the Round Tower in Old Portsmouth. The Tower is being turned into a gallery space, and the opening exhibition will include work of over thirty creatives within Portsmouth! Exciting times

Tea and Cloth Artwork

I was asked to create some artwork by my friend Ooh La Lapin for an upcoming event in Southsea for Textile Artists and Makers. It started off as one design but i ended up splitting the creation into two basically because of the colour scheme. Had a male and female vibe going on. Anyway here they are in their full glory!

If you want more info check out the links below......

No Customers

Some more sketchbook extracts from when I have no customers at work. Coffee and Biro x

Now Available In Three Dimensions

Here are some scans of my three dimensional letter created from polystyrene-stuff. It was from my friend george cricks pop up shop exhibition. He wanted to create the letters of our home town Southsea in 3D, and to get each letter designed by a different artist. Here is the front and back sides of my design, however I shall put up more pictures from the sides later on...

D-Day Display

My work was displayed within the D-Day museum this weekend to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. The work was a combination of text derived from my friend Dan Knellers Masters dissertation alongside my own illustrations. The theme was "Untold Stories" and our work highlighted the lesser known death camps within the Holocausts Final Solution.