Subwalk on the wildside

Hello internet peoples, hope all is well

Meant to write up a bit about my art jaunts overseas before setting off on them but one thing led to another and I'm already a week in so we will back track a little and try and stay reasonably on top of this the rest of the trip.

Ok, I set off last week to do a mini residency in Arnhem, via the wonderful Into The Great Wide Open festival where I was working on a print workshop alongside Mara Piccione and organised by Roos and Hans at Subwalk. Subwalk are also hosting me in their studio in Arnhem for the next couple of weeks and then it’s up to Groningen to meet up with Piccione again and off to the booze and poster funfest that is Flatstock Europe 6. All in all it should be a great trip, and my last big one of 2011.

Bit of information on Into the Great Wide Open: it's a great little (4-5000 people I think) music festival on an island off the coast of the Netherlands called Vlieland. It was laid back, friendly and generally one of the nicest festival experiences I’ve had in a while. We were running a workshop there producing prints via an awesome old roller press with 6 Dutch art students over the three days, which in turn were then either used to advertise pop-up shows or sold as print packs at the merch stall. Great, engaged students and excellent co-conspirators in the form of Mara, Hans and Roos meant a successful workshop was had by all...I think. On top of this I designed one of the official posters for one of the festivals performers, namely tUnE-yArDs who were far and away the festival highlight, a picture of which you should have cast your internet loving eyes over at the top of this ramble and which will be available on my site in October. Here are some pics:

See the full gallery on Posterous

Since leaving the island I’ve been back in Arnhem working on some new commissions, preparing for some more workshops and talks and planning a small project using some of the equipment we put to good use over the festival weekend. More to follow soon.

Oh yeah, and loving Hagelslag on toast

Keep on keeping on

Luke

Subwalk on the wildside

Hello internet peoples, hope all is well

Meant to write up a bit about my art jaunts overseas before setting off on them but one thing led to another and I'm already a week in so we will back track a little and try and stay reasonably on top of this the rest of the trip.

Ok, I set off last week to do a mini residency in Arnhem, via the wonderful Into The Great Wide Open festival where I was working on a print workshop alongside Mara Piccione and organised by Roos and Hans at Subwalk. Subwalk are also hosting me in their studio in Arnhem for the next couple of weeks and then it’s up to Groningen to meet up with Piccione again and off to the booze and poster funfest that is Flatstock Europe 6. All in all it should be a great trip, and my last big one of 2011.

Bit of information on Into the Great Wide Open: it's a great little (4-5000 people I think) music festival on an island off the coast of the Netherlands called Vlieland. It was laid back, friendly and generally one of the nicest festival experiences I’ve had in a while. We were running a workshop there producing prints via an awesome old roller press with 6 Dutch art students over the three days, which in turn were then either used to advertise pop-up shows or sold as print packs at the merch stall. Great, engaged students and excellent co-conspirators in the form of Mara, Hans and Roos meant a successful workshop was had by all...I think. On top of this I designed one of the official posters for one of the festivals performers, namely tUnE-yArDs who were far and away the festival highlight, a picture of which you should have cast your internet loving eyes over at the top of this ramble and which will be available on my site in October. Here are some pics:

See the full gallery on Posterous

Since leaving the island I’ve been back in Arnhem working on some new commissions, preparing for some more workshops and talks and planning a small project using some of the equipment we put to good use over the festival weekend. More to follow soon.

Oh yeah, and loving Hagelslag on toast

Keep on keeping on

Luke

Why so sad my simian friend?

Why so sad indeed. After much waiting and deliberating the posters I designed for the Circa Survive show in Denver last year are finally in my sweaty hands and ready to be pushed into yours...hopefully free from sweat stains of course.

These 3 colour, screen-printed, A2 posters feature a monkey king on a throne of building blocks, lost deep in his own Quixotic senility. Silly monkey. Anyway, you can grab a copy at my online tat emporium here.

And while we're here, here's a pic of a recent print set I designed for a clients twins christening featuring imagery inspired by their names, Liberty and Gabriel. I'm rather happy with so lets hope the wee ones are too.

More info soon about upcoming exploits and exploitations. Ta ra!

Work from idle hands

Hello my virtual friends,

I trust all is well in cyber-firma. Things in the real world have been busy and jam packed of late and there should be a few new updates with new prints, exhibitions, jaunts and sundries coming soon but for now i thought i would share a few new pieces from the studio. 

See the full gallery on Posterous

Above is a selection of definitely finished and potentially finished new work that has survived the ever stringent culling, re-working and reshuffling that is my working process. A few of these pieces should hopefully be cropping up in upcoming shows over the next few months so i will post about those as and when they take shape, but for now goodbye and goodlooks

best, Luke

Work from idle hands

Hello my virtual friends,

I trust all is well in cyber-firma. Things in the real world have been busy and jam packed of late and there should be a few new updates with new prints, exhibitions, jaunts and sundries coming soon but for now i thought i would share a few new pieces from the studio. 

See the full gallery on Posterous

Above is a selection of definitely finished and potentially finished new work that has survived the ever stringent culling, re-working and reshuffling that is my working process. A few of these pieces should hopefully be cropping up in upcoming shows over the next few months so i will post about those as and when they take shape, but for now goodbye and goodlooks

best, Luke

Unlearned Tricks

Aye up internet folk!

Been a bit slack with blog posts of late but i assure i am alive well and in fine fettle. Lots going on but for now I just wanted to let people know about this upcoming night of frivolity we/Black Dogs are assembling this weekend. 

So if you are at a loose end this Sunday evening, 24 July, pop into The Constitution pub in Camden, London between 19.00 - 23.00 to celebrate the end of the Camden Players Festival which has been taking place through a variety of events across Camden during July.

Hope to see you there! More new new news soons

Luke 

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Black Dogs presents

Unlearned Tricks: A night of improvised music, art and general dog play
 
Sunday 24 July 2011

 19.00 - 23.00

 The Constitution
42 St Pancras Way
London
NW1 0QT

 Join us on the final night of the Camden Players festival to enjoy an evening of wholesomely bizarre and entertaining music, performance and artists' film selected and presented by art collective Black Dogs. Featuring performances from Sly and the Family Drone, the Black Dogs Ensemble, the Peter J. Taylor Guitar Orchestra, Stockpot Stopcock, Patrick Coyle, and more, Black Dogs will celebrate and conclude this month-long cultural adventure through Camden in a suitably reflective and mysterious manner.

Black Dogs is an art collective formed in 2003 in Leeds with a core membership of ten artists based in Leeds, Bradford, London and Milton Keynes. They operate as a DIY, not-for-profit organisation with an output which has included formal exhibitions, relational and participatory installations, public events and interventions, publications, video, audio works, and collaborative learning projects. Black Dogs' activities shift between social practice and art and through the structure and operation of the group ideas of collaboration, not-for-profit motives, and self-organised approaches to artistic practice are continually explored and developed.

Find out more at: http://www.black-dogs.org/ and http://www.camdenplayers.co.uk/

 

Unlearned Tricks

Aye up internet folk!

Been a bit slack with blog posts of late but i assure i am alive well and in fine fettle. Lots going on but for now I just wanted to let people know about this upcoming night of frivolity we/Black Dogs are assembling this weekend. 

So if you are at a loose end this Sunday evening, 24 July, pop into The Constitution pub in Camden, London between 19.00 - 23.00 to celebrate the end of the Camden Players Festival which has been taking place through a variety of events across Camden during July.

Hope to see you there! More new new news soons

Luke 

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Black Dogs presents

Unlearned Tricks: A night of improvised music, art and general dog play
 
Sunday 24 July 2011

 19.00 - 23.00

 The Constitution
42 St Pancras Way
London
NW1 0QT

 Join us on the final night of the Camden Players festival to enjoy an evening of wholesomely bizarre and entertaining music, performance and artists' film selected and presented by art collective Black Dogs. Featuring performances from Sly and the Family Drone, the Black Dogs Ensemble, the Peter J. Taylor Guitar Orchestra, Stockpot Stopcock, Patrick Coyle, and more, Black Dogs will celebrate and conclude this month-long cultural adventure through Camden in a suitably reflective and mysterious manner.

Black Dogs is an art collective formed in 2003 in Leeds with a core membership of ten artists based in Leeds, Bradford, London and Milton Keynes. They operate as a DIY, not-for-profit organisation with an output which has included formal exhibitions, relational and participatory installations, public events and interventions, publications, video, audio works, and collaborative learning projects. Black Dogs' activities shift between social practice and art and through the structure and operation of the group ideas of collaboration, not-for-profit motives, and self-organised approaches to artistic practice are continually explored and developed.

Find out more at: http://www.black-dogs.org/ and http://www.camdenplayers.co.uk/