Seen & Made - William Edmonds

I've moved

2011-04-07T02:56:00.001-07:00

I've moved my blog to a tumblr here, please follow me there, Thanks for coming this far.x

yaYYei

2011-04-06T01:43:00.001-07:00

H. Buddy + Pedro Infante = YAYYEI

Excited to announce....

2011-04-05T01:54:00.000-07:00

Colossal Space is a new personal curatorial project.

Colossal Space is a 55mm x 55mm x 95mm glass case exhibition space. A hand picked selection of artists are invited to use the space any way they desire. The installation or object can be something found or created. However, as important as the internal space, is the external. The exhibiting artist is asked to specify exactly where the exhibition space is placed. For the duration of a one day or night exhibition the space will be positioned in a place that is completely of the artist’s choosing. The expectation being that there is some dialogue between the internal and external, that both are considered with equal importance and that one enhances the other conversely.

When exhibitions will be held is up to the participating artist. On what day, for how long and at what time of the day adds further potential to artists to mould the environment of the show.

Each exhibition will have an opening and will be documented on a specific blog here.

Schedule so far:

April - Supermundane

Supermundane is the pseudonym of Rob lowe, a multi-disciplined creative who works
as a graphic designer, artist, illustrator, typographer, and art director in London, England.

May - Matthew the Horse

Matthew the Horse (Matt Hodson) is an illustrator based in Leeds. Matthew teaches, writes poetry, has started his own t-shirt label and regularly works on commissions for the Guardian among numerous others.

June - Dan Has Potential

Daniel Brereton is a video director and image maker based in London, by way of Kendal.

July - Jez Burrows

Jez Burrows is a 24-year-old designer, illustrator and forest enthusiast, based in Edinburgh. He is co-founder of independent press Sing Statistics, one fifth of collective Evening Tweed, and occasional contributor to design blog It’s Nice That.

August 1 - Jay Cover

Jay is a Graphic Designer, Illustrator & Artist from the Isle of Man. Currently living and working in Leeds. Jay uses a variety of methods & techniques to create a simple, effective & cohesive aesthetic. Jay aspires to design and build furniture and has a keen interest in Craft.

August 2 - Nicolas Burrows

Nicolas Burrows is an illustrator and artist living and working in London, UK.
His practice consists of drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, digital processes, writing and recording/performing music.

September - Nathaniel Russell

Nathaniel is an artist and musician based in Indianapolis, USA. He is extremely prolific and his simple and direct drawings appear on an almost daily basis.

Have a...

2011-04-01T14:31:00.000-07:00

Just playing on a friday evening. Cool eh.

I kind of just like this, reminds me of Jez Burrows' Gocco prints, the screens looked like this with big blobs of ink on them, when he was printing at Pick Me Up. Good Times, Great Parties...

into it

2011-04-01T12:27:00.000-07:00

This little gem popped up during some research in the Anthropology library today. Credited to an Inuit artist named Kiakshuk

Empty Vessels

2011-03-27T09:14:00.000-07:00

Pots I have thrown and painted up and put up for sale at Pick Me Up in our 'Fresh Ones' space. Want to do more with pottery, especially in terms of making them illustrative, attempting to tell some kind of narrative using the object as a vessel itself (!). Definitely works in progress of a working process.

Ones of Ones

2011-03-26T11:33:00.000-07:00

I've done a couple of sessions with It's Nice That for their 'One Of One' live drawing event. It's been super nice

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Drawing Times

2011-03-24T03:12:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we made musical instruments in our little champ workshop, I made a horn.

I had my first drawing spell with It's Nice that. I drew some dark characters, some lighter characters and Tove. It was super nice to actually sit down and complete some drawings, probably the first time in about two months I've done that. Good to turn some sketch book work into some real deals. I'm back on it Friday afternoon.

This day

2011-03-22T08:39:00.000-07:00

I'm at residence in our Fresh Ones room at Pick Me Up and very nice it is too. Our room certainly has a chilled out vibe and it makes a nice space to hang and draw and chat in. I've been doing a bit of drawing practice as I'm also taking part in It's Nice That's 'One Of One' live drawing event, on Wednesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, so say hi if you;re passing through that time.

Also wanted to show off the pots that I've thrown and decorated specifically for our Fresh Ones shop. It's something I want to do a lot more of, I'm really excited to see how I can use the object as a narrative device and canvas for my drawings. They are available now at our shop at Pick Me Up.

Print Okushon

2011-03-18T06:44:00.000-07:00

Bid on and buy one of my 'Do Something Good' prints, to do some good,

Part of Print Okushon, where there are loads of other really great prints by great people, so if you don't like that one, buy another one!

Fresh News

2011-03-17T02:55:00.000-07:00

PICK ME UP is open!

We're running a project called 'Fresh Ones' - creating one-off, hand-crafted objects for everyday living. There will be a limited range of blank objects, such as pots, book-ends, dolls, paper-weights, tote bags & t-shirts, which we will be hand embellishing in our shaker style workshop. We also have a set of special items; Pumps, Throw, Cap, Ukelele & Vase that we have got some friends to make for us. Participants include; Espen Friberg & Jessica Williams, Qubik & Workshop, Nathaniel Russell &, Tom Hudson. Matt Hodson will also be joining us Sat 19th painting a lovely vase.

Come Say hello!

We'll be documenting all our activity regularly over the week here.

Pick Me Up Website

Kibbo Kift is soon!

This will be the first show of my new band, alongside Nicolas of Nous Vous and Glaciers and Laurence of Yayyei and The BRoken Chairs.

It will be a revelry of music, poetry & art
_

Performing: Glow-Wing, Nick White & Andrew Rae, Yule Bringer and Supermundane + Kibbo Kift Chorus

Djing: Marcus Oakley, Nervous Stephen, Dudley Smarts + Kibbo Kifters
+ Zineswap stall
_

£5 (in advance) £6 on the door
Saturday April 9th 2011 5pm - 2am
The Victoria, 451 Queenbridge Road, Dalston E8 3AS

Doors are at 5pm with the first act on at 6pm. Djing from 10:30pm - 2am

More info here

The Joy of Living!

We got asked to be a part of this show,for which I completed a piece. We went to the opening and it was a lovely affair, it felt great to be a part of the project and our piece sold. Lovely! Thanks to whoever bought it!

I will reveal my piece after the show finishes as all designs are remaining anonymous at present.

Joy of Living is a charity project that unites over 100 leading lights in the design community to galvanise support for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. Design author Max Fraser has set the challenge to a cross-section of new and established UK designers to create a desirable artwork that expresses the Joy of Living – all starting from a simple sheet of A4 graph paper. The signed works will be exhibited and on sale in London’s inspiring space for art, culture and creative exchange, Somerset House, from 15 – 21 March.

Tic Toc Pop Up Shop

Efdeay Collective have popped up a pop up shop by St Pancras station in London. They asked me, alongside a whole host of illustrators to contribute so you can buy the print below as an A3 riso. Get down there.

More info here

I had a cold

2011-03-07T06:22:00.000-08:00

Now I'm back in my window in the sun, discovering things that disprove assumptions. good day.x

Lilys in the sun

2011-03-04T06:39:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I actually posted up any things I've been doing so thought I'd give the potentially interested few a glimpse into my poo. I've been painting, making things out of felt and clay and wood. Thanks. Have a lovely weekend and if you can sit in a window in the sun and listen to 'Scott Free' by the Lilys, or anything by Galaxie 500. x

I dreamt we were in a wood and it was bright and the sunlight navigated through the trees and our feet rested in the water and the sun lay on our knees and it was warm for the first time in the year and it gave life to our limbs and we knew spring was nearly here

Backed up for some time

2011-02-18T15:29:00.000-08:00

Found this gem at the Anthropology library today

Hope to post some things I've actually made soon...

Holiday

2011-02-11T02:56:00.000-08:00

I found this at my pottery class last night. I think it was from one of the children's pottery classes. It is beautiful. It is splattered with clay.

Mountain of Big Fire

2011-02-11T02:40:00.000-08:00

A song I wrote in Italy last year and recorded in Stourbridge and my house this year. It's about Vesuvius.

Vesuvius by Now-Owl

Yesterday

2011-02-05T02:04:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, which is now the day before, a French girl called me from Germany but I said I was having my photo taken and couldn't help her. I half climbed a set of aluminium step ladders and pretended to read a volume of Moomin cartoons. I thought of skidding on my knees along he dusty wooden floor but instead slowly threw two cardboard boxes printed with my initials into the air. Time moved quickly but contained the correct number of minutes and hours and after a familiar supper we blew on whistles and pulled words out of a wooden bowl that made pictures in our heads and joy in our breaths. Relaxed, we read as the windows sung a wheezing drone till we climbed the stairs to the attic where we slept well until the morning, dreaming of islands forgotten by boats but never by the waves which lap them.

Heavy Pencil

2011-01-26T08:04:00.001-08:00

New Jam

2011-01-21T07:08:00.000-08:00

Pearly New Now Owl Jam
Home Made Home by Now-Owl

Pick of the pots

2011-01-14T02:31:00.000-08:00

So,

I've been going to a pottery class for a little while now. It's amazing. It's the most intuitively , therapeutically, spiritually rad thing i can do at the moment. It's about using your hands, cutting out our brain and using a purely aesthetic eye. It's about feeling something and in an instant knowing if it's right or wrong, cool or not. It's about making things that are instantly imbued with some worth because you made it. It's about doing something that people around the world have done in their own way for years, it's kinda a corner stone of civilisation. It's rad.

So,

these are my pots. I've made three so far (not counting a whole heap of fails). I think the guy at the front is my favourite so far, in terms of the weighting and the shape. Now I have to think about glazing. I hope to integrate pottery a bit more into what I do, I'm working that out at the moment, at the moment it's just pure joy.

Another photo of snow...

2011-01-14T02:29:00.000-08:00

but look at the colours man, just look at the colours

Resolution

2011-01-10T03:19:00.001-08:00

If you surround yourself with good people,
As do the bricks of the church gather round the steeple.
A solid mountain we can hope for,
And love, as does smoke, out the volcano pour

What it says on the tin

2010-12-06T10:29:00.000-08:00

South Titaly

2010-11-29T08:30:00.000-08:00

A small hand grab of gratuitous photo snaps from my recent trip abroad.x

One-Liner - Opinion - What does drawing mean to you?

2010-11-11T10:54:00.000-08:00

We were asked by the Craft Council to say what drawing means to us, especially in this age of digital tools

To find out what we said click below:

One-Liner - Opinion - What does drawing mean to you?

Costumous

2010-10-27T12:33:00.001-07:00

A couple of costume designs I want to make in the very near future.

Firstly, a kind of shallow wing/cape/t-shirt and hat that I would wear to perform in Now Owl.

And secondly, my potential Halloween/Dia De Los Muertos costume. A mask and t-shirt of Pedro Infante, a Mexican film super star who died flying his own plane I believe.

Sights and Sounds

2010-10-22T04:15:00.000-07:00

I am super stoked to be a part of this:

"The first volume of The LPP Exhibit Series is Sights + Sounds in which the themed subject is based on the visual artist who makes sound and music. In addition to providing a piece for the visual exhibition, the artist has a song or sound bite included with the booklet on a cassette tape. One page is designated for text, which is left open-ended and at the artist’s discretion (bio, prose, poem, lyrics to song, etc). The other page are the visual aids either directly or conceptually connected with their sound piece. The third part of the exhibition is an online component. We have a virtual feed where the artist can post other elements that cannot fit into the book or cassette. This gives artists an additional platform to expand their ideas in the immaterial form of the Internet. The artist can present video, installation shots, photography, etc.

In addition to providing a piece for the visual exhibition in this booklet, the artist will also record a song or sound bite on a cassette tape. The booklet will be comprised of any visual aids either directly or conceptually connected with the sound pieces. The third part of the exhibition will have an online component. Our digital feed will give each artist an additional platform to expand their ideas in the immaterial form of the internet and present performances and installation shots."

Read more about it here
Some photos of the book:

This is my image, that went alongside a new recording and a new piece of writing

The digital feed is here

Catrines

2010-10-18T09:31:00.000-07:00

A sketch of a thing
recorded live

Catrines by Now-Owl

The Bike

2010-10-16T15:09:00.001-07:00

Sitting in the cafe he cannot stop thinking about the bike. The coffee gives him a headache and noises seem closer than they are. He thinks how mortified at some point must have meant something different.

A black piece of fabric drapes over the drum kit. Not to hide, to restrict. Four cymbals like varying sizes of coolie hats or wide brimmed bowlers, hang from a makeshift frame. Thick rope holds them to a crossbar and they dangle rather shoddily, as if from a child's mobile of the solar system, where every planet is surrounded by brass rings. Although there is no movement in this miniature galaxy. They sit suspended so still and silent. Their stillness emphasised by their silence. The piano, also covered sits still under mustard yellow canvas and black material patterned with large turquoise and white stepped triangles.

As the coffee cools he cannot stop thinking about the bike. He receives an e-mail saying the toothpaste got there. She can now brush her teeth in hospital, he pictures her smile and for a second he stops thinking about the bike.

Raising his head up and slightly to the right he tries to picture the glasses he tried on two weeks ago. He damns his power of imagination for failing in being able to construct faces. Faces he knows well that still evade him, lacking in the nuances and subtleties of topology and movement that make it that face.

As hunger begins to feed in he cannot stop thinking about the bike, and the bag of half eaten bombay mix back at the studio. The brand new, freshly unsheathed sketch book and still shop sharp pencil lay untouched on the table, because he cannot stop thinking about the bike. And the truck. And the police men. And he feels like he should go. Back to the studio, to eat, look at her smile, and try and forget about the bike.

Frosted Snakes

2010-10-06T15:36:00.000-07:00

Recently installed this show/commission. 'Frosted Snakes', a collection of prints (screenprints, risographs, lino cuts and giclee prints) by myself Nicolas and Jay (Nous Vous), installed in Aspen Ltd building on Fenchurch Street as part of their personal collection.

Some are available for purchase in very small editions (3 or 5). Get in touch if you are interested.

More photos of the install and details of the prints on my flickr.

Last week

2010-10-04T04:25:00.000-07:00

Last week was the first 'Bro-Case' in London. It was the first coming together of Hair-Piece acts Glaciers and Now Owl and new kids YAYYEI. It was also the debut performance of YAYYEI (myself and Laurence's pop drone and moan) and Now Owl. We made three bands out of three people. I guess it was also the first gig of Glacier in this formation. A first of firsts. More soon. Bro time

Hair-Piece are:

(a couple o goons)

Now Owl:

Also we trecked over to Bristol for the opening of the Howies illustration show at the Howies store. It's on for a month and it looks amazing, Thanks to David Sparshott and Nick Saunders for sorting it. Good stuffs.

solo goon:

Breakfast

2010-09-14T03:16:00.001-07:00

Good morning, a zine I made with my friend and poet Richard Makin is finished and avaialable for buys. 16 page risograph zine, poems by Richard Makin, illustrations and design by myself, £6 inc p&p. You can buy it at the shop bit of my website, or click buy at the bottom. Thanks.x

VFT on The Radio

2010-09-12T04:47:00.000-07:00

Vest for Tysso have a song on BBC6 Music this evening at about 1am.

Update, here at 56 minutes in

Seen recently

2010-09-05T11:55:00.000-07:00

I visited the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford Botanical Gardens a little while ago with Nicolas, Hugh and George. The Pitt Rivers is incredible, if almost completely overwhelming. A great, dimly lit room with balconies houses tens of tiered glass cases that collect anthropological oddities that span cultures and centuries, organised by practical use rather than by the people who made them. This results in creating a celebration of human development and resourcefulness rather than a cold study of a particular time or place.

The Botanical Gardens is also a fascinating place. I saw huge cacti, an abundance of succulents and beautiful cabbages (what colour even are they, some kind of green purple, my favourite vegetable, aesthetically, surely).

Afterwards we went for noodles, where I found this guy in what was meant to be my vegan dish.

Other potentially interesting things I have seen recently, but with less attachment to my working life include a beauty parlour where you can beautify your finger waving, the chub your dog will love and a super heavy log.

1st of two things

2010-08-06T06:15:00.000-07:00

I want to do something good to do some good.

I want to head up, initiate, collaborate over, work on or be part of a project that has some further reach outside the creative community. One that is definitely headed up by but has some either fleeting or longstanding effect on a local community or others that it would be good to get to know. People that otherwise it would not be likely that I would come into contact with.

Main elements I imagine this could include

creativity
food (preferably meat if not dairy free)
music
inclusive fun

If anyone feels like they would like to do something also please get in touch

come on, hit me up.x

2nd of two things

2010-08-06T06:13:00.000-07:00

Pushing my Now Owl music project, in that I want to play shows in the run up to a 7" release this autumn. Get in touch if there's someone you know I should get in touch with or if you'd like me to play at something you do.

Info HERE

Friday funday

2010-08-06T03:32:00.001-07:00

Huh Magazine

2010-08-04T10:44:00.000-07:00

Curated a list of bros, friends and would like to be friends here today:

Little Paper Planes

2010-08-02T02:10:00.000-07:00

I am featured on the Little Paper Planes blog today with exclusive prints available to buy from the shop. Thanks to Cortney and all for adding me to their super impressive roster of artists.

So...

2010-07-30T04:09:00.000-07:00

I have a new website

Devon = weekend heaven

2010-07-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

Edinburgh Bound

2010-07-21T09:36:00.000-07:00

My work is now on it's merry little way to beautiful Edinburgh

for this:

this shit's gunna be TIGHT!

The many faces of Santana

2010-07-20T14:54:00.000-07:00

super tight summer fete

2010-07-20T02:52:00.001-07:00

On saturday we had a stall at the East London Printmakers summer fete. It was such a lovely day, there was sun, bros, ciders, games and dudes.

We sold our bits and also ran a memory game, we made paper maché shapes and covered them with a cloth, contestants had 10 seconds to see what was under the cloth and then draw what they could remember. A few teams conquered the game and we had some good runners up/runner ups(?), so some lucky people may be receiving a print in the post soon, thanks if you came down and said hi, took part or thought about us. Thanks to Nick Morley for getting us involved, and also props to the giant lino cut that was printed using a steam roller on the day!

Evidence:

Injera

2010-07-13T02:51:00.000-07:00

Last night Hannah and I totally slayed some Ethiopian food, we made Ethiopian pancakes (injera) a couple of lentil dishes, one spiced with 'Beberé' a pretty intense spice mix and a coconut milk mash potato. Pretty dangerous stuff.

A couple of nights ago I wrote a poem,

And so and so and so and so
He thought and thought and thought,
I wish I had more time for thinking,
More time for sport,
More time for reading
and swimming in rivers, lakes and ponds,
More time for writing words
to as yet unfinished songs.

"But this want is good my dear,
I would far prefer to fear
The passing of time, than to hold on
To times passed too dear."

This shit's GOLD

2010-07-12T05:54:00.000-07:00

Did some lino cutting and printing for a big group show at the lovely Analogue Books in Edinburgh that I am super stoked to part of, it'll be up in April, more photos soon. This is the biggest lino undertaking I have done to date, A2 print in black and GOLD!

The Next two Weeks

2010-07-05T07:53:00.000-07:00

The only grass

2010-07-05T05:39:00.000-07:00

Getting in position

2010-06-19T14:11:00.001-07:00

A Thought #2

2010-06-17T11:21:00.000-07:00

YAM DUST NO MATTER
WHAT YA URN

Taste that flavour

2010-06-17T11:18:00.001-07:00

Bike Ride

2010-06-17T11:08:00.000-07:00

The first of plenty

TUFF BIKE!!!

2010-06-16T06:24:00.000-07:00

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

A thought...

2010-06-16T01:55:00.000-07:00

'TRUE TUFF'
is somewhere in
between TOO TUFF
and NOT TUFF ENUFF

Awesome Motion / Fantastic Movement

2010-06-11T05:31:00.000-07:00

Installation shots of my work from Nous Vous exhibition 'Awesome Movement / Fantastic Motion' at Harewood House, Terrace Gallery.

'Hollow, Fell, Forest, Song'
4 embroidered banners, approx 300cm x 150cm

'Untitled'
Framed drawing, ink and gouache on paper, approx 175cm x 150cm

'Big Head'
2 cut sheets of MDF, painted with household paint.

Studio Class Field Trip 1 - The Horniman Museum

2010-06-10T05:10:00.000-07:00

Myself, Richard, Nicolas and Owen, went to the Horniman museum. It is an amazing museum that serves as a distillation of all the big museums in London, and has an Aquarium! We saw, grumpy fish, flat toads, crazy face masks, a sloth without a head and I snapped an apple in two, making me an official member of Tuff Ladz.

Experiments in printmakin(g)

2010-06-09T01:36:00.001-07:00

I've been experimenting (with the help and tools of Nicolas) with lino cut printing. These are for a zine collaboration I'm working on with a friend who has written some lovely poems I am putting into a zine and illustrating. More soon...

New bits of pieces

2010-06-03T10:46:00.000-07:00

Some new things I have been working on, including a commission for friends, a possible print and some other projects (this is where the dog fits in, a cape hunting dog actually)

new studio (AKA 'TUFF LADZ')

2010-05-28T16:08:00.000-07:00

So I've moved into my new studio, in a room with Nicolas and the very talented Owen Gildersleeve. It's taken a little cleaning up but I finally had my first full day there today. I feel super stoked to be here, there are so many other lovely and talented people here. To mark our territory Nic tagged the door to our room. More news soon...

Jay keeps an eye on his with his mate, to make sure we're working:

Some boxes for a mobile I made for a friend's coffee shop in Norwich, there are some of my drawings up on the walls there, which you can see there, or here

In detail...

2010-05-28T06:47:00.000-07:00

'DO SOME THING GOOD TO DO SOME GOOD'
2 colour A2 screen print
(yellow and super neon pink)
edition of 20
£35 inc. p&p

side 1

side 2

'SUPER GOOD/SUPER BAD'
double sided A3 poster
4 colour Risograph print on munken
edition of 50
£15 inc. p&p

'Meeting'
2 colour screen print
145 x 185 mm
edition of 100
£10 inc. p&p

'Light Wake Walk Sleep'
zine produced to coincide with the Nous Vous show at Harewood House - 'Awesome Movement / Fantastic Motion'
edition of 50 (more spreads here)
£6 inc. p&p

General Topography EP - for Free

2010-05-17T09:51:00.000-07:00

The Mist of the Freezing Dogs by Now-Owl
This Night of FAlling WAter by Now-Owl

Hit Me Up

2010-05-17T06:36:00.000-07:00

Hi,
once again after failed promises of more regular blogging I finally find some time to catch up. In the past two months, I have half moved to London, in that I'm here, but have nowhere to live, although I do have a studio (with lots of lovely people, a group I'm super stoked to start being a part of - as soon as I get a desk). Pick Me Up came and went, it was great fun, and a fantastic chance to meet so many people, some finally in the flesh, some for the first time, all lovely.

Also despite reports that may suggest otherwise, my facial hair has not a hint of irony about it.

Picture courtesy of Hugh (Landfill/Manymono),
Pictured are members of Peepshow, Evening Tweed, Landfill, Print Club, Chris Pell and of course joined by fellow Nous Vous Nic

I'm in the process of sorting my website out which will soon have all this new stuff on to buy which was pretty much all made specially for Pick Me Up, new studio, new house, new site, new city...

'DO SOME THING GOOD TO DO SOME GOOD'
2 colour A2 screen print
(yellow and super neon pink)
edition of 20

'Light Wake Walk Sleep'
zine produced to coincide with the Nous Vous show at Harewood House - 'Awesome Movement / Fantastic Motion'
edition of 50 (more spreads here)

'Meeting'
2 colour screen print
145 x 185 mm
edition of 100

'SUPER GOOD/SUPER BAD'
front/back (depending on mood) of double sided A3 poster
4 colour Risograph print on munken
edition of 50

'TRY HARD EVERY DAY' T-shirt
edition of 10
s/m/l available

Have also put a few more things up on my flickr.

More things soon...

If you're in London and fancy meeting up for a coffee or a beer then Hit Me Up.

rejected

2010-03-17T20:03:00.000-07:00

I made this as a bit of a graphic experiment, inspired by a recent workshop with students at University of Central Lancashire, in Preston, (which was a lovely day by the way). I intended it to be made as a print as part of a series of prints all members of Nous Vous plan to release as a part of our upcoming show. It's not getting there though, so here it is...

Don't Miss Today

2010-03-10T16:14:00.000-08:00

It's back,
I'm back,
I'm going to bed.

Go read it here

Draft

2010-02-27T13:27:00.000-08:00

Installation at 3rd Draft at theartmarket & Kunstfreund Gallery, Leeds
www.flickr.com/photos/theartma/

More pictures again, on my flickr

Go Red

2010-02-27T13:11:00.000-08:00

I went Red, for this

Vest For Tysso

2010-02-10T17:09:00.000-08:00

Finally, Some demos my band Vest For Tysso recorded live at the Chemic Tavern, late last year.

Download them HERE for your ear.x

Some photos of my work as part of Nous Vous in 'Rotate'

2010-02-07T06:08:00.000-08:00

at the Contemporary Art Society offices in Bloomsbury, London, till the 2nd of April

More photos on my Flickr

(Photos courtesy Contemporary Art Society, photographer: Matthew Blaney)

Me in this...

2010-02-01T03:50:00.000-08:00

Actually pretty nervous as the quality so far as been super high. some bros throwing down the gauntlet as it were, time to pick it up...

Now Owl - Under, Open, Heaven, Outside

2010-01-18T04:47:00.000-08:00

Now Owl - Under, Open, Heaven, Outside

Just over 30 minutes of music from the last 6 months of me messing about on my own.
Hand screenprinted cover and poster with mini zine featuring new drawings, limited to an edition of 40.

Tracklisting:
1. The Gravel, the Stone and the Marble
2. Old Gold
3. Now Owl
4. Sightings
5. My Thumb, Like Your Big Toe
6. Your Body, a Sea of Feathers
7. I Find Anana Again
8. Boatswain

£6+p&p

Thanks

Unipkaren

2010-01-06T10:00:00.001-08:00

Just finished a personal commission for a nice person. It was difficult, interesting and ultimately rewarding, a few of the images are below. Hope you like it Hayley,

Happy New Year

2010-01-06T09:55:00.001-08:00

Working

2010-01-06T09:52:00.001-08:00

Towards our upcoming show in London at the Contemporary Art Society

Book Specific Book Marks

2009-12-17T02:39:00.000-08:00

Bought at Flea Market in Lisbon (Nic , I'll give you your book back as soon as I've read it)

A Meeting

2009-11-30T10:08:00.000-08:00

I have been drawing again

2009-11-21T09:53:00.001-08:00

it was nice. I have made a new mini zine to go with the forthcoming Now Owl release that will be launched at the Hair-Piece Champion showcase gig at Nation of Shopkeepers in Leeds this Tuesday. These are two that didn't make the zine.

New drawings

2009-11-19T10:10:00.000-08:00

On my Flickr

NEARLY

2009-11-16T05:18:00.000-08:00

Hairpiece Champion Showcase No. 1

Mechanical Owl

Glaciers

Vest For Tysso

24th November

Nation of Shopkeepers

Leeds

8pm

Free Entry

New Zines

2009-11-02T09:26:00.001-08:00

'Sightings'
Photos
12 pages, colour

£4 + £2 p&p

'Gold Like Gleams'
New Drawings
16 pages, black and white

£3 + £2 p&p

get in touch if you would like either,

'Palagipsee Eglot'
still available also
save on p&p if you buy more than one, hell I might even make you a deal,

Thanks,x

Lethal Brizzle

2009-10-30T06:46:00.000-07:00

Today we're off to the Spike Island Zine fair in Bristol, I have a couple of new zines to sell, one of recent drawings, the other of photos from the latter part of my life. We'll have all our Nous Vous stuff to sell including zines, books, badges, prints and T-shirts. Come down say hi if you're about, I hope our car doesn't get towed again. Cider and Falafel. Fun times.

Tease

2009-10-13T00:15:00.000-07:00

Skin Heels T-shirts, £15 each,
I have Medium in white, cream and blue
and Small in white, cream, blue and yellow,
all hand screen printed on organic cotton t-shirts, get in touch if you would like one.

Some new drawings

2009-10-11T17:17:00.000-07:00

New songs

2009-09-24T04:08:00.000-07:00

I have put some new songs over here

Vest foy My Band Tysso

2009-09-09T00:57:00.000-07:00

Vest For Tysso will be playing tomorrow (thursday) at the Brudenell in Leeds with Vetiver.
Our home is here for the time being
but will soon be here more so

Shippei Taro

2009-09-04T02:47:00.000-07:00

Shippei Taro

I have posted these images before but someone who bought the originals asked to know the story behind them. The images are based on an old Japanese folk tale. I copied out the version I originally took inspiration from, (the first version presented here, taken from 'Folk-Lore Record Vol.1' published by the Folk-Lore Society in the late 1800s) and then found another version floating around and some other connected variations, which I thought may be interesting to see.

Version 1.
In the good old time, when young gentlemen were proud of the knowledge of fencing, and, not like those of this degenerate age, effeminate rakes, who spend their time dallying with dancing and singing girls, it was the custom for the young cavaliers to travel about and meet renowned swordsmen in order to practice manly accomplishments, become expert, used to hardship, and gain health and vigour.
One of these students, who was roaming about the northern province, one night lost his way in the hills, and, becoming, weary and foot-sore before he could find a habitation, joyfully espied a little wayside shrine, which he found was only just large enough to permit him to sleep inside. In the middle of the night he was aroused by a great noise made by a gathering of cats, which he could see by the faint light of the rising new moon were gamboling and evidently enjoying themselves. He fancied he could hear voices repeatedly saying, "Don't tell Shippei Taro: Don't let him know," - and then the cats would dance about with great glee. Being tired, and withal a little afraid, he did not dare disturb their frolics. In the morning, feeling very hungry, he was anxious to find the nearest house, so followed the first path he met with, which, showing signs of recent footsteps, gave him hope; but before he has gone far he heard cries of women, their voices sounding if they were in great distress. Hurrying on, he came to a young girl crying bitterly, and seated on a bundle of firewood, which she had evidently been sent to gather. She told him that every year it was the custom to offer a sacrifice of a young maiden to the mountain god, that it had fallen to her lot for this year, and that in two days she would be the victim offered up. Further inquiry convinced him that this had something to do with what he had witnessed the night before. He accompanied her to the village, and, giving her the best encouragement he could to cheer her up, hurried on, and after satisfying his cravings with a hasty meal made inquiries about "Shippei Taro." This he was told was the name of a fine hunting-dog belonging to the Prince, who had left it in the care of an agent while his master was away at court. So off our hero trudged, and, telling the agent his story and fears, borrowed the dog. Fortunately this agent was a learned man and had been one of the most active of the disciples of the tenets of Haji-no-Tsukune, who was renowned in history for having substituted clay figures for living sacrifices.
Now it was the custom to put the victim in a cage, so the student took the dog to the vicinity of the shrine, and, secretly communicating to the girl and her mother his intentions of attempting a rescue, watched his opportunity to substitute the dog for the girl. The following night the cats again assembled, and this time an enormous tom-cat, who seemed to be leader, appeared the most active. The student could hear voices, and to his astonishment heard the cats talking about and glorying in their anticipated feast, for it seems they would devour the poor girl as they had always done the former victims.
The student at last let loose Taro, who first seized Master Tom-cat, and made short work of him and scores of others. It turned out these were ghouls in the form of cats, so the student's enchanted sword was made to do good work in seconding Taro's brave work.
The student, imitating the great ancestor of the emperor, Susa No, claimed the pretty maid as his wife, and the story becoming widely known, greatly contributed to the abolition of this hideous custom,

Version 2.
A young warrior wandering in the northern province one evening lost his way in the mountains ; and reaching at length a small secluded shrine, where there was only just room for him to lie down, he took shelter within it and soon fell fast asleep. About midnight he was awakened by a noise. Peeping through the interstices of the timber walls of his refuge, he espied a troop of cats engaged in a wild, unnatural dance by the light of the moon, and yelling in fiendish tones. As he kept perfectly still in his hiding-place and listened, he could distinguish, incessantly repeated amid their shrieks, the words : " Don't tell Shippei Taro ! Keep it secret ! Don't tell Shippei Taro ! " The midnight hour passed away, and with it the mysterious cats, leaving him in peace for the rest of the night. In the morning he found a path leading to a village. As he drew near he heard a sound of weeping, and entering the nearest hut, he inquired what was the matter. He was told that the mountain-spirit required the sacrifice of a maiden every year, and the very next night was the appointed time. On further inquiry he learnt that the shrine he had just left was the scene of the offering, and that it was customary to place the victim in a cage in the immediate neighbourhood. Recaling the incidents of the past night he next inquired who Shippei Taro was, and was told that Shippei Taro was the name of the great dog belonging to the chief officer of the prince who lived not very far away. To this personage accordingly he went, and asked for the loan of the dog for the following night. After hearing his story the dog's master consented and handed over Shippei Taro to the stranger. To arrange with the girl's parents to keep her safely at home, and to put Shippei Taro into the cage in her stead was the next business. Having accomplished these things the youth betook himself to the shrine and awaited what would happen. At midnight when the moon had risen over the mountains the cats returned in full cry led by a gigantic black tom-cat, in whom our adventurer without difficulty recognised the dreaded mountain-spirit. The tom-cat approached the cage with hideous shrieks of delight and danced around it. At length he opened it and peered in, searching for his victim. In an instant Shippei Taro leaped upon him and held him with his teeth, while the warrior with one well-aimed blow put an end to the brute. Turning then on the other cats, hound and man speedily put them to flight and destroyed not a few. The rout was complete ; and from that time no more human sacrifices have been offered to the mountain spirit.

Further examples:
A. (a) A girl is offered as sacrifice to village shrine every year; (b) every 0.~116 who comes to live in a village temple is killed; or (c) a koz6 of a temple is killed. A traveler (or sum?[rai) who stays overnight at the shrine or is praying to the deity of the shrine, overhears someone chanting "Sizippei-Taro is the only one whom I fear." (a) Traveler goes in search of the one called Shippei-Taro. He finds a dog of the same name and comes back with him to the shrine. The dog destroys the evil spirit, who turns into his real form of a monkey (cat. rat, or badger). The dog also dies from injuries in the fight. B. (a) Every year a girl is offered to village deity, or (b) a girl is sacrificed when prayers are said for a rich harvest. Traveling samurai (traveler, or hunter) goes to shrine in place of girl, and destroys evil spirit (monkey, cat, or serpent).

ZINE

2009-08-27T14:07:00.000-07:00

My zine 'Palagipsee Eglot' is now available for buys. Individually numbered and limited to to an edition of 25. Better images on my flickr. There's a button to buy it on the right and on the Nous Vous Shop.

Breakfast

2009-08-27T01:08:00.000-07:00

early morning foraging outside the studio

Illustrative 09

2009-08-26T11:01:00.000-07:00

I am going to be in this again,
rad

I will never take this house home...

2009-08-26T10:54:00.000-07:00

I've been away, building houses and boats, exciting my heart and joying up.
More photos and words on recent things over at the Nous Vous Blog on my Don't Miss Today Wednesday post.

Newcastle

2009-08-14T04:48:00.001-07:00

We are in Newcastle installing our exhibition 'Massive Contact', if you're in Newcastle tonight (Friday) come down and say hello, the show is up for two weeks. Photos soon and a return to blogging normality next week.

Booty Call

2009-08-10T16:32:00.000-07:00

The woolen booties I have made for Massive Contact, with the beautiful help of Hannah, Many Thanks Hannah.

Bruce Banner

2009-08-07T02:49:00.000-07:00

This is a mock up of the banner I have made for 'Massive Contact'. I finished the real (3mx1.5m) one at about 4am this morning. Sweaty metal thimble finger.

PalaGipsee Eglot

2009-08-06T04:11:00.000-07:00

Some images for my zine (news of which will be posted up here soon) and work for the Nous Vous 'Massive Contact' show in Newcastle (news of which is posted up over here now)

Print Club - Skin Heels - For Sale

2009-07-09T10:51:00.000-07:00

My skateboarding bottom (print) was part of the Secret Blisters show, looks like it was pretty rad, I sold a few over the weekend and now the rest are for sale on the Print Club store website. Go. Yes. Please. Thanks.

New scans of not so new drawings

2009-07-02T01:05:00.000-07:00

4 drawings from 'Heavy Bones' that was at Analogue Books in June, the pieces are A3 and A1 respectively.

Elsewhere

2009-06-19T02:41:00.000-07:00

I have been posting most of thoughts over here at the moment, my weekly blog post takes up most of my writing energy, I think this blog will become more documentary and image based.

I've uploaded some old and new songs also onto a dedicated MJBC blog here.

2 New Sketchy Pieces

Now Owl

My Thumb, Like Your Big Toe

Some sketches towards 'zines

2009-06-19T02:38:00.000-07:00

Don't Miss Today

2009-06-03T12:48:00.000-07:00

We have changed the layout and format and concept behind our Collective Nous Vous blog and I have been the first to post on the new 'We Hold Hands' project, I will now post there every Wednesday with links, drawings, thoughts and writings. Nic takes over duties tomorrow and Jay every Friday, should be a nice cumulative idea.

New drawings

2009-06-01T06:19:00.000-07:00

Preceding a sleepless night

I am in this soon,

2009-05-31T11:07:00.000-07:00

better get printing...