Kai Designs

Recently I was asked to create some visuals for Kai design: a London based Interior and graphic design studio run by Michaela Reysenn, who also produce bespoke lighting, furniture and wall art.

The visuals were for a Residential Project for Manor Gardens. 

Today I sent the final visuals away for the critical verdict and Im pleased to say it all went well, (phew!)

Ill keep you updated on with the final finished pictures as and when I receive them!

just in time for the olympics

house of hackney ....developing print

DALSTON ROSE

''Mirror, mirror on the wall I broke my heart in a Dalston fall''. Dalston Rose is a tale of dark romance and broken dreams. The concept of the English rose is distressed and subverted with signature ombre and antique print treatments running through the collection. Grungy chintzed florals on wallpaper and monogrammed bed linen have been ombre’d and tattooed with the subversive Dalston Rose print.

This developing print from House of Hackney which with an added chemical can darken in response to the day light. 

I imagine it to work in a similar way to  a photography process and although Im uncertain to the exact process Id be keen to learn if the developing process could be stopped? 

LV

louis vuitton is to release a new book. titled louis vuitton - architecture and interiors and published by rizzoli, it elaborates on the luxury brand’s flagship store interiors and ongoing collaboration with the starchitects that create them. the new 304-page book features never-seen-before sketches, blueprints and mock-ups of the most striking louis vuitton retail spaces across the planet. 

Also included are interviews with the creatives it has worked with, such as peter marino, jun aoki and christian de portzamparc. the louis vuitton - architecture and interiors book will be released next october, also in an exclusive limited edition with three separate photographs on the cover to coincide with the three monogrammed fabric slipcases [gold, silver, and copper], and it will be exclusively available at louis vuitton stores across the planet.

information and images from http://www.superfuture.com/supernews/

Nick Gentry is a British graduate of Central St Martins and has exhibited in the UK, USA and Europe. As part of a generation that grew up surrounded by floppy disks, VHS tapes, polaroids and cassettes, he is inspired by the sociological impact of a new internet culture.

His portraits use a combination of obsolete media formats, making a comment on waste culture, life cycles and identity. Using old disks as a canvas, these artefacts are combined to create photo-fits and identities that may draw connections to the personal information that is then forever locked down underneath the paint.

This has led to an exploration of the ways in which humankind is integrating with technology. As it reaches a tipping point, this new movement is becoming increasingly apparent as a cultural and social transition of our time. Will humans be forever compatible with our own technology?

add these to the list also.............

By limiting the creative act to one simple material, in ample supply, with clearly defined parameters (no fixing, no joining, no additional materials, only balance and gravity allowed for the construction process) a door opens into a wholly unexplored creative territory.
Aeneas Wilder

Untitled # 155 was conceived especially for Longside Gallery and took nearly 200 hours to construct through the careful placement and balance of around 10,000 uniform lengths of Iroko wood, destined for parquet flooring. The work both references and challenges architectural space by providing an enclosed, seemingly safe structure for visitors to inhabit, but one that is loaded with the potential energy of collapse.

Wilder’s practice is rooted in the process and possibility of construction and the experience of the viewer. Working for days, the act of placing becomes a rhythmic labour, the structure gradually becoming apparent. Each work is completed through a ‘kick down’, a powerful act that brings the structure crashing systematically to the floor. A UK first, the kick down for Untitled # 155
takes place on 3 November.

The process of renewal, both of the structures and, where possible, materials found locally, is an important aspect of Wilder’s practice and references a world in constant flux. Although the Untitled works are primarily an investigation into the possibilities of sculptural form and structure within given parameters, the relationship between existing and not existing, as witnessed by Wilder in the recent devastating earthquake in Japan, is one that interests the artist.

The Maquette for the End of the World (2011), shown in the side gallery, is Wilder’s imagining of the predicted event 4.5 billion years in the future made physical through sculpture. The wall drawing, which references a mandala, is a unit based diagram of measurement used by the artist as the starting point for many of his sculptures. Further works are also shown through film and
maquettes, including those made for the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan and the Bemis Centre for Contemporary Art in Omaha, USA.


http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/aeneas-wilder

plans for the day off.

Im already making plans for my days off.

I was aware of this exhibition when I last visited YSP but it had not opened at the time. 

MAKE SHIFT is the first solo exhibition by Liverpool-based artist Emily Speed, featuring sculpture, installation, drawing and photography. Emily’s work explores the temporary and the transient through reference to architecture and the body. She examines buildings, both literally and metaphorically, as physical shelters and as containers for memory, bound with the history of their occupiers.

images from 

http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/emily-speed-make-shift

ever the fan of snail mail.

I am a snail mail fanatic and i have to admit that the arrival of an unidentified piece of post always gets me abit excited, (as long as it doesn't look like a bill anyway). Today was no different and this little gem was what I received along with a shiny c.d from my beautiful friend Tiaz. Not only is she very thoughtful but very talented!check out her blog at http://loadingdarling.blogspot.com/ there is a plethora of interesting posts to be read.

Thanks again T this brought a smile to my face.

PSL Project Space Leeds

I have been aware of Project Space Leeds for sometime now, however I have not managed to make a visit to its varied and changing collections, Last week after a slow start to the day, I needed abit of a push in the right direction to remind me that there is still hope in todays climate to follow your passions.

The title of the show ‘Hunter Gatherer’ refers to a term used by anthropologists to describe the way in which human beings collected food before the advent of agriculture. Here it references the artists and the processes they have employed to sift through the vast Artemis collection. The resulting works include sculpture, installation, film, prints and drawing which form part static exhibition and part on-going project within the space.

Lubaina Himid and Susan Walsh have made a themed selection of obsolete domestic apparatus from the Artemis collection - washtubs, dollies and washboards - which they have assembled with their own materials into a number of sculptures. Tiny curious onlookers and hungry historians gather to view this memorial landscape which is dedicated to the invisible labour of the women who used them. The artists are both concerned with the power of everyday objects and the making visible of lost live

Amelia Crouch is working in the space, creating a visual manifestation of her thought processes using drawings, diagrams, objects and photographs along with text exploring or creating possible links between them. Taking as her starting point John Wesley’s 1780 edition of ‘Primitive Physic and Receipt’, Crouch is interested in the way medical treatments are grouped together in the book - these resonate with the way in which objects are grouped in the Artemis collection. The anatomical objects selected by the artist become a stand-in for the absent figurative images in the book and aim to open up a different understanding of the body to those perpetuated by the ‘Primitive Physic and Receipt’.

Dinu Li is exhibiting a display cabinet that was originally discovered standing defiantly upright, yet alone inside Chester Market. Upon the end of its tenure, the marketer had stripped his stall bare, leaving behind the cabinet that makes up the front façade.There is a formal quality to the cabinet, constructed as four separate display components, forming a complete hexagonal unit when all four parts are joined up. The emptied out glass display alludes to a range of existential concerns; conjuring up notions of our need to possess and to show off our assets, yet the potential lack of contentment once we have obtained the things we most desire

Nathan Walker’s three channel video projection ‘Objectivity Tropes / Objectivist Poetry / Presto Objectivity’ (12 mins) shows the continual rearrangement of selected objects from Artemis on red, blue and yellow surfaces. Letters appear across the three videos sometimes spelling, but often deconstructing, words and language. The work attempts to understand the poetics of things (words and objects) by employing systems of order with anarchic principles and the curation of meaning. The videos are accompanied by stills from the video which are highly saturated, making visual references to children’s television programmes and images of museum displays from the 1970s.

Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson have created an installation using rubber pigeon decoys and anti-perch spikes. Whilst the decoys are designed to lure pigeons to their death, the spikes are designed to deter birdlife. Within this duplicity and contradiction, the artists highlight the perils to both birds and humans of mistaking simulacra for the real thing, especially in a constructed world populated by representations that make the real world into something more manageable and tolerable.

After a browse round this interesting collection I took the time to explore a bit of leeds I was not really aware existed, 

It was a lovely warm day and I think you agree it looked picturesque.

Photographs from Celina Joyce

collection Background http://www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk/hunter_gatherer_unid9df9_page.aspx

an afternoon on cat safari.