Wednesday 13th December: Peckham Levels opening party with 3rd Rail Print Space

Leading on from the soft launch of "Peckham Levels" last week to the official opening night on Friday where 3rd Rail were hosting live screen-printing.  Visitors could get a taster of their open access facilities by making a personalised tote bag with a pattern from Supermundane.  The workshop which ran throughout the whole weekend was part of their campaign to gather enough funding via Kickstarter to complete the final build for London's largest public screen-print studio.  Check out their different packages to snap up bargains from seasonal gifts to your own creative space within their floor of Peckham Levels when its completed in January.  Find out how to pledge here.  Only one week to go to reach their target!

See archive posts here and here.

(Photos c/o Erika & 3rd Rail)

Thursday 17th March: Stephen Doherty at The Hackney Shop

 

Stephen Doherty has taken residency at The Hackney Shop for a week's live studio and gallery of previous work.  Life-studies in charcoal hang alongside pastel drawings and water-colour florals with some turned into screen-prints.  These have been framed and others embroidered as textile reliefs into garmerts, displayed on rails he has installed amongst 2D canvases.  I love both his loose illustrative flow of drawn line in the portraits and the deep wash and scratches in brush strokes of petals.  The bleeding pigment is almost abstract to the human eye but ends up looking photo-real when captured here!  Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

All drawings and prints are available to purchase and garments available to order, prices starting at £35.00. .............. or just pop in for a cup of tea with the artist himself.

The shop will be open from Thursday 17th – Sunday 20th March
10am - 6pm.

Friday 9th October: "Liberty In Fashion" at The Fashion Textile Museum

"Liberty in Fashion" , the new exhibition at The Fashion Textile Museum celebrates the 140th anniversary of the London Institution.  From Orientalism and Aesthetic dress in the 19th century, through Art Nouveau and Art Deco in the early 20th century, and the revival of all of these styles since the 1950s.  Not only is this a typically beautiful show brimming with pieces you've never seen before, but its the upstairs room that particularly excited me.  "The Art of Pattern: Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell for Liberty 1961 -77" has all the ephemera from the background of the print process.  I LOVE this kind of thing for the chance to see sketchbooks, scrapbooks, tests, prototypes......... all the glorious workings of a cosmic mind in colour.  Its absolutely beautiful and a great acknowledgment of the fundamental creativity in devising shape, space and hue by hand.  These repeats were formulated by piecing together tessellation's without any CAD and crazily cosmic as a result.  Go and see for yourself and look up the full list of events and classes that are running to coincide.