The Stampopolis Post

~long awaited~ Stampopolis post ;) on 14th April (my birthday!) myself and some of Art School Disco  took part in Urbandsey, a pop up exhibition at The Vibe gallery in Bermondsey, around the theme of 'Urban'.
My contribution was a 3m x 1.5m (almost)blank canvas for visitors to contribute to and build a city. I carved around 20 rubber stamps, allowing them to be put together in near-infinite combinations to make the elements of a city.
I started off the city centre at home, as documented in the below video:

my lovely husband helped me with the videos. superstar! below is some rough sheets i used to clean off the inks..

 I was very lucky that there were (at least!) 3 fantastic photographers at the show, who got some great snaps of the city growing.

Below: 3 photos by Miles Dell, including my /stamp-station/ (read: table i found in a bin)

Below: great snaps by Mike Brown. i was amazed at how many people interacted with the art!

Below 2 photos are by KLV who also took part in the show!

 before and after shot:

and finally, a fab video of the show!

Open/Closed Exhibition

another longtime no blog! I still need to do a little write up about the exhibition i took part in last month. Open/Closed was devised by Ben and Doug, creating a pop-up exhibition in a studio space at The Biscuit Factory in Bermondsey. Art School Disco, our badass ~illustration collective~, all exhibited, along with a few others ;)

--- urgh --- my blogger uploader is mad-- uploads in a random order? here's a photo dump, in some sort of random order :S

work by Johnny Ace (photo: Sabina Campbell)

Work by Simon Abbott (photo: Sabina Campbell)
work by Ben Phe (photo: Sabina Campbell)
work by mee! (photo: Sabina Campbell)
work by meee (photo: Sabina Campbell)
we had films playing and stuff! (photo: Sabina Campbell)
more of meee (photo: Daniel!)
Keiron's installation! (photo: daniel)
Work by Ed Brown (photo: Daniel!)
work by meee! (photo: Daniel!)
my stuff! (photo: Daniel!)


done!

an invitation

it would be lovely to see you at a pop-up exhibition myself and a few friends will be taking part in this Friday 10th Feb.

unit a
100 clements road
tower bridge business complex, bermondsey, se16 4dg

doors 7pm, plenty of music, film, drink, and art

>> http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/347993638552083

Unknown Craftsmen

Last week I had a lovely saturday in London with my mum. We had planned to attend Renegade Art Fair, but the underground was up the creek so we ended up at the V&A museum and then the British Museum. At the V&A we saw The Power of Making, an exhibition curated by the Craft Council. It displays 100 strange, thoughtful, clever and beautiful objects, all handcrafted. Check out my sketchbook images below for my drawing of a funky 'lion coffin', crafted in Ghana.

We had a wander around the bookshop then some of the permanent collection. I took some sneaky photos of some book illustrations in the Asia collection- I'm always interested by images that tell a whole story in one image- see image above left. We then head over to the British Museum where they had gone Grayson Perry mad! People dressed as teddies (inspired by Perry's teddy, Alan Measles) and huge tables of children doodled on cut-out pots to form a giant image for The Big Draw (see image above right).
I went into The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman exhibition, items from the British Museum curated by Grayson Perry, alongside his own pieces. The exhibition space was cramped and full of displays, thoughtfully planned out placing interesting pieces together. It was fantastic seeing historical objects curated by an artist. He has a great eye for well crafted objects and ones that tell a story. I could have drawn in my sketchbook all afternoon but a rushed hour was about enough to take it all in and doodle the items of specific interest to me. I came away with my head spinning and bursting with inspiration and ideas.