sketchy

few sketches and odds and ends from the last few projects i've been working on

E SPAM II

Here's my revised submission for the Just Us E-spam book. Last one was terrible. Been getting a lot of spam about needing gold mining equipment so did a piece on that.

In other news the Snakes show was rad, i'll post a photo soon. The "Take Away" show wasn't as good but whatever, was happy with the work I made for it. Up next is Deep End! Our show at the Macbeth. Also hopefully a few other bits before then. I'll post some sketches and stuff this week too.

cheap chinese

Here is a drawing I will be showing/giving away at the previously mentioned Take Away show at The Outside World gallery this friday. The Brief was 'the outside world' and I decided to make an editorial illustration about an article I recently read originally published in Mute Magazine.The perilous and exploitative employment of economic migrants, despire the public outcry against it, is an essential component of capitalist productivity. Concentrating on the structural insecurity of Chinese workers both in the UK and mainland China, John Barker moves from the contextless media coverage of specific deaths to the macroeconomic picture that caused them, full article here

Here's the oddly-long flier:

celebrations

did this thing for creative orchestra/diageo to make an image for "celebrate life everyday everywhere" with a 'responsibly' added at the end because they're a drinks company. it's for a charity auction and to be displayed in their box at old trafford so the whole thing was to be completed in 90 minutes. this was way harder than i first thought. Here's my first attempt:

got this far and went wayyyyy over the 90 mins. So scaled down and tried this one:

and got that far in an hour but wasn't feeling great about it. So had a late-night panic and did this instead:

green-haired woman is terrible but oh well. need to get quick with drawing man, yikes!

EXHIBITIONS

This is pointless as it ended today but my zine One Nil was part of the Paper Exchange exhibition at the To & For gallery in Holloway. I couldn't even manage to go so feeling super shit about it, but I've heard from friends that it was rad, there's info about the gallery here: To and For Gallery

BUT this weekend 13th, 14th and 15th I'm in an exhibition at The Outside World gallery, 44 Redchurch Street, Bethnal Green, E2 7DP. It's called TAKE AWAY and all the work is displayed in pizza boxes. I think. There's no website or anything but it should be good?

AND ALSO on Monday the 16th I'm in another rad show called SNAKES at the former alliance gallery on sumner road in Peckham. here's the event on facey & here's a logo:

featuring work by; Rosie Carr, Ele Cockerill, Ellen Cummins, Ian Daniell, Charlie Froud, Jermaine Gallacher, Murray O'Grady, Lily Keal, Will Kemp, Sean Kirwin, Robyn Minogue, Matilda Moors, Rosie Ridgway, Hannah Stearn, Debbie Stone, Lucia Quevedo, Emily Vickery, Mark Walker and me. It'll be good.

Great Anarchists II

So finally, over a year since I put out the original photocopied zine, I've got some properly printed, quality copies of my zine Great Anarchists. 20 portraits of historically important anarchists each accompanied by a brief quote. With 2 colour cover, all printed on a heavy stock on a risograph. They are £1.50 each, with I guess 50p if you are paypalling. My paypal address is deadtreesanddye@hotmail.com. Here are a few spreads.