A few weeks ago Paul ran a workshop at the National Portrait Gallery where he stepped through one of Racket’s collages - explaining the step by step process of composing and building an image such as the one below. He spoke about digitally altered self portraiture and the implications image manipulation in regards to the perception of self. See below for the image built for the workshop:
Very excited to be designing all the material for the 2009 This Is Not Art Festival. More soon.
We have some work in the upcoming edition of Wooden Toy Quarterly - we also have a piece in the launch exhibition to be held at Gorker Gallery. Here is the full blurb:
Gorker Gallery and Wooden Toy Publishing Co. are proud to present ‘Hand Made Edtn.’ the official launch exhibition of the much anticipated and long awaited 6th edition of Wooden Toy Quarterly, the ‘award winning’ and everybody’s favorite artist publication. Featuring original artworks by the same creative people featured and interviewed inside the publication, this exhibition celebrated all that is art and all that is independent from mainstream culture. Long live the Wooden Toy!
ACORN - BEC WINNEL - BIDDY MARONEY - BIG GAV - CAT RABBIT - CLEMENS HABICHT - CRAIG SPARK - DAVE COLLINSON - GHOST PATROL - JAE COPP - JAMES LOOKER - JUSTIN LEE WILLIAMS - KARL KWASNY - KELLY THOMPSON (NZ) - LILLI PIRI - MICHAEL PERRY (USA) - NATE HOLMES TRAPNELL - NAWLZ - NIOR - RIK LEE - ROHAN HUTCHINSON - SANTHA KING - SEAN MORRIS - THE CONTEXTUAL VILLAINS - TIMBA - TRISTAN JALLAH - TWOONE
We have been lucky enough to be working with the Creative Spaces project for the last twelve months. In that time the scale, scope and potential of the project has grown enormously as more and more support has come on board. The website was officially launched on the 20th February 2009 by Deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley at the Boyd School Studios (managed and facilitated by Creative Spaces).
The website itself is a highly customised multi author build of Wordpress. Racket managed all aspects of the project from infromation architecture through to the graphic design, XHTML & CSS coding and ofcourse the Wordpress build and integration.
1 page poster we produced to promote the Engaging Visions Exhibition, Riverland.
The work of Ghostpatrol was recently featured on the ABC program Artscape - Paper Cuts: The Art Of Ghostpatrol And Miso. However he has also just completed a feature interview with InFrame.tv which is really worth checking out - they have interviewed a couple of my other favourite artists in the past - Julia DeVille and Shaun Tan. See below for a selection of Ghostpatrols work.
We also just rebuilt the Ghostpatrol website which you can read about here.
A short film we love by Blu - “An ambiguous animation painted on public walls.” Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
blublu.org/
blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm
Music by Andrea Martignoni
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Be gone with your vectors, bezier curves, bitmaps and apps… from now on we are making all our logos with wood. Good old fashioned can’t be beat wood. Little hard to email I guess….
Because we are working on some large scale print collatoral to accompany the Creative Spaces launch this Friday - and there is nothing worse than a bad digital shadow, we decided to rebuild the Creative Spaces logo physically so as to document it in a natural setting.
To celebrate reaching the last 100 copies of The Present History (and a spike in traffic from Smashing Magazine) we are offering some new prices to help move the final lot.
The Present History is a 74 page case bound A5 landscape limited edition artists book. It contains the work of 25 visual, sound and text based artists and includes a cd soundtrack. It recently won Best Design for Creative Print at the 2007 Desktop Create Awards and features the work of some talented peoples such as Ian Francis, Anthony Lister and Amber Wallis. If you have arrived here via Smashing Magazine, use the Smashing Magazine only button for a 20% discount. Hurrah.
