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Category: Art

50 Years of Illustration accompanies the launch of a new book of the same title by Professor Lawrence Zeegen, Dean of the School of Design. The book charts the rich history of contemporary illustration, from the rampant idealism of the 1960s to the digital explosion of the 1990s as well as the increasing diversification taking place in the twenty-first century.
 

HOPE poster by Shepard Fairey.

The exhibition is part of a trio of shows named 160, that includes Alan Kitching and Monotype: Celebrating the centenary of five pioneers of the poster and Stereohype 2004-2014, which celebrates a collection of 1,000 button badges.

Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak.

Dylan poster by Milton Glaser.

Speaking about the exhibitions, Professor Lawrence Zeegen explains: “160 at London College of Communication celebrates the work of numerous influential designers and illustrators across the past 100 years. Reflecting the disciplines of graphic design, typography and illustration, all taught and researched within LCC's School of Design, this trio of exhibitions has been curated to inspire and inform today's and tomorrow's generations of design creatives. Launched during the London Design Festival 2014, 160 aims to highlight the invaluable connectivity between design industry and design education, many of the exhibitors across all three exhibitions having studied or taught at London College of Communication.”
 

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John LP cover by Ian Beck.

Private View: Thursday 18 September 2014, 6-9pm
Opening Times: 10am – 5pm (Saturday 11am until 4pm and Sunday closed)

Category: Art

The AOI Illustration Awards 2014 Exhibition showcases work by category winning illustrators and highlights from this year's shortlist. The show includes emerging and established talent from across the globe. Two overall winners, The AOI New Talent Award 2014 and The AOI Professional Award 2014, will be announced at the private view and awards ceremony. After the show at Somerset House, the exhibition will continue on its tour across the UK. Some of the winners are profiled below, to find out more about their individual projects click on their names:

William Grill, the New Talent winner for the Children’s Book category, with his first book Shackleton’s Journey, which he started as a third year project whilst at university.

Andy Ward won the Professional award for the Advertising and Design category. His winning entry formed part of a mental health awareness campaign for the University Of California's Santa Cruz campus.

David Doran’s illustration for The New York Times Book Review won the New Talent category winner award. The piece titled ‘Going Home Again’ accompanied an article reviewing Dennis Bock’s novel. The story follows a man that spends a strange year at home, in Canada, after separating from his wife in Madrid.
 

Laurindo Feliciano is the Professional Editorial category winner. Flaunt Magazine commissioned the winning entry ‘Fabricating Art’, to accompany an article based on Laurindo’s answers to questions set by art director Jim Turner, on the topic of his work process.

Thoke Maer’s self initiated project ‘It’s No Biggie’ won the New Talent award in this category. The project is an ongoing series of animated GIF’s based on moments that are all too familiar and perhaps even nostalgic.

Opening times: 10am – 6pm

Category: Art

Wadsworth, In the Black Country.

Mordor conjured images of a charred wasteland exploited for its resources. The Making of Mordor exhibition at Black Country Echoes Festival explores the links between J.R.R. Tolkien’s depictions of this fantasy region in The Lord of the Rings and the Black Country of the 1900s, which lay a few miles from his childhood home.

Empire Marketing Board poster.

Alongside images from Tolkien’s sketchbooks, signed first editions of his novels and iconic illustrations by concept artist Ted Nasmith, The Making of Mordor features works by other 20th century writers and artists who have been influenced by the industrial powerhouse of the West Midlands. Contemporary responses to the post-industrial Black Country will also be on show, including works by Turner Prize nominee Richard Billingham, photographer Brian Griffin and artist Euripides Altintzoglou, along with an indoor forest by internationally-acclaimed installation artist Olafur Eliasson.

Richard Billingham, Black Country Night.

Opening times: Monday – Saturday: 10am – 5pm

Category: Art

Opening on the eve of The London Tattoo Convention and with the popularity of tattoos on the rise, Atomica Gallery and Things&Ink magazine have collaborated once again to present an exhibition that celebrates the very best in contemporary tattoo artistry. Miniature Ink will feature miniature originals by 100s of tattooers from around the globe and showcase a diverse array of styles, techniques and subject matter. The exhibition is being held to raise awareness for Sarcoma UK, with profits from sales being donated to the unique cancer charity. 

Drew Linden.

Alexis Camburn.

Each artwork in Miniature Ink will be for sale at the same affordable price of just £60 and there is no preview list for this exhibition, work will be sold on a first-come first-served basis. Everyone is in with a a chance to own an affordable original artwork from some of the industry's most highly sought artists, or pick-up a hidden gem from a future star! 

Paupiette Scorbut.

Jack Thomas Newton.

Eva Huber.

The opening party takes place on Wednesday 24th September at Atomica Gallery from 6-9pm, with complimentary drinks from Sailor Jerry Rum and The Brooklyn Brewery. Everyone is welcome, just rsvp@atomicagallery.com or join the Facebook event here.

Opening times: Mon – Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 12-5pm, Sunday 12-4pm 

Category: Art

Celebrating London Art Month, online marketplace Etsy.com presents OPEN: An exhibition of Art on Etsy. OPEN features exceptional contemporary work by 15 UK artists, specially selected to showcase the diverse range of artistic styles, practices and subjects found on Etsy.com. From painting to fine art ceramics to printmaking, celebrate all things 'art' in the broadest sense of the word! Here are a few sneak previews of exhibition artists, including a few friends of Amelia's Magazine.

Kethi Copeland, Balloons.

Kristi Cumming lives and works on the remote island of Shetland. Kristi's work aims to convey the emotions of fleeting memories; trips to the beach; trooping down through the dunes in battered trainers filling with sand. The abstract beauty of the piece encourages you to read your own memories. (Kristi's piece Path to the Beach is on the flyer)

Dawn by Midori Takaki.

Lucy Pass left college in 2005, since when has been practicing as an artist and designer in Lancaster. The intention of Lucy’s work is to produce intimate portraits which give an opportunity to take a curious gaze into the face of a stranger. The stillness of the images and absence of any background objects is intended to enhance the viewing experience, cutting out extraneous information and allowing the viewer to see beyond the immediate appearance of the subject.

Lou Taylor is based in Brighton, where she makes acrylic jewellery and intricate artworks inspired by a love of Art Deco, lidos and vintage quilts.

Ness Donnelly is based in Manchester and studied at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is interested in line, repetition, time, space and the process of making. The use of repetition is as much about the physical act of making as the appearance of the work. Lines of thread are overlaid almost resembling weaving, allowing the colours to interact with each other and produce new ones.

Maya Mladenovic, You are my rock.

Duck Ceramics is run by Alice Duck, a self taught potter with a whimsical style inspired by traditional ceramic ware with a modern twist. She makes one of a kind crockery in stoneware and porcelain.

Becci Maryanne, Habitat.

William White, Beach Huts.

All exhibiting artworks can be found here. Information regarding the event and further artist profiles can be found here.

Opening Times: Friday 17 October: 10am – 8pm, Saturday 18 October: 11am – 6pm, Sunday 19 October: 11am – 3pm

Category: Earth

Relax in comfort at Embercombe, which is a community set in a beautiful valley in the heart of Devon, with views over the Dartmoor National Park. Find out more about the location of Emberfest here. At this small family centred festival you will learn how to pickle, preserve, forage and ferment, bread bake and make fruit wine! Visitors will stay in cosy yurts, eat delicious food fresh from the garden, opt in to a range of food related workshops and enjoy all the wild resources that Embercombe has to offer, including lake swimming, woodland walks and a fabulous children's play area. Find out more details and book your place here.

Category: Art

Stevie Wonder by Richard Bernstein for Interview, June 1986. Photo (Albert Watson), pastel, pencil, airbrush and collage on foam board.

As part of the FIG Summer Show the Fashion Illustration Gallery presents a collection of works created by artist illustrator Richard Bernstein (1939 – 2002) for the cover of Andy Warhol's infamous Interview magazine.

Aretha Franklin by Richard Bernstein for Interview, December 1986. Photo (Albert Watson), charcoal, pastel, pencil, airbrush and collage on foam board.

Bernstein made the up-and-coming celebrities of the 70s and 80s such as Sylvester Stallone, Mick Jagger, Diane Lane, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Susan Sarandon et al, look sleek, sexy, glamorous and forever young. The covers were designed in such a way that people would think that Andy Warhol had made them because Andy’s signature was printed above the masthead. Interview became iconic and Warhol would autograph the covers of fans’ copies, never disabusing them of the notion he had done the covers himself but Richard never signed a cover and Andy never made one himself.

It is estimated that Bernstein made 120 actual portrait painting covers for Interview (starting 1972) and very few are outside the control of the estate. The group at FIG are brilliant examples including portraits of Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger and Stevie Wonder.

Opening times: 11am – 6pm. (Closed Sunday 10th & 17th)

Mick Jagger by Richard Bernstein for Interview, February 1985. Photo (Albert Watson), pastel, pencil, airbrush and collage on foam board.

Diane Keaton by Richard Bernstein for Interview, January 1987. Photo (Herb Ritts), pastel, pencil, airbrush and collage on foam board.

Category: Art

Ellie Foreman-Peck will be showcasing a series of limited edition prints that focus on Japan's influence on advertising art in Western Europe during the 19th Century. Azuri-E is the term given to Japanese prints predominantly printed in blue.

Ellie Foreman-Peck works as an illustrator from her studio in East London creating portraits and editorials for a wide range of clients including GQ, The Telegraph and CBBC. To see more of her work please go to www.elliefp.co.uk

Opening times: 8:00 am – 12:00 am. Private View: 24th July from 6pm.

Category: Art

Nicholas Stevenson, Bear fight.

Home Sweet Home is a exhibition of new paintings at Atomica Gallery from Art Brut enthusiast Angela Dalinger and young British illustrator and artist Nicholas Stevenson. Offering viewers a snatched glimpse into a series of imaginary homes, both artists indulge in depicting domestic voyeurism which treads a thin line between the whimsical and the worrying. As we trespass through these residences, we may encounter anything from illegal pets to resident ghosts and wizard’s gardens.

Nicholas Stevenson, Psychic interior.

Angela Dalinger, Psychic exterior.

Indulging our curious natures, the paintings in Home Sweet Home portray private moments in which viewers may pass unnoticed and draw their own conclusions. Often the paintings will be in direct communication with each other, both artists offering an alternative view point of the same scene, other times the dialogue between the paintings will be more covert.

Nicholas Stevenson, Kitchen ghost.

Angela Dalinger, Dead giant

Hailing from a small village on the edge of Hamburg, Germany, Angela Dalinger's seemingly naive style is absent of current cultural or artistic influences, something her relative isolation no doubt has a hand in. Nicholas Stevenson is an illustrator, artist and musician currently based in North London whose chalky gouache paintings have appeared in the likes of The New York Times and the cover of Belly Kids book, Thrill Murray. The two artists have been virtual friends for some time, but will meet for the first time at the Home Sweet Home opening!

Nicholas Stevenson, Bug problems.

Angela Dalinger, Swansea noble.

Angela Dalinger, Bed.

Opening times: Mon-Fri: 11am – 7pm, Sat: 12pm – 5pm, Sun: 12 – 4pm
Opening reception: Thursday 14th August, 6-9pm

Category: Art

Lynn Hatzius is an illustrator, collage artist and printmaker living in London. Her work crosses boundaries of fine and applied art with regular commissions of commercial illustration alternating with personal self initiated projects. She designs book covers for a variety of publishers and her illustrations have appeared in various magazines and newspapers as well as on album covers. Lynn Hatzius completed an MA in Printmaking at the London Print Studio, where she continues to explore traditional printmaking techniques to translate her imagery into printed form. She regularly exhibits and sells her work in London and elsewhere.

By The Sea (2013) Paper Collage

Patience I (2012) Vintage postcard, Paper Collage

A Journey into Printed Matter is the title of Lynn Hatzius's latest solo show, which will bring together a selection of her collages and prints. The venue is Firefly, a small second hand book shop on the corner of Chatsworth Road and Glenarm Road in East London. This place is the perfect setting to show some of Lynn's more delicate collage pieces, which themselves include elements chosen and extracted from old books. For her the images on dusty pages open up endless possibilities for new compositions, which reveal hidden meanings and unexpected ideas. She is in constant search for new material to add to her vast collection of printed matter, so the surroundings are a source of inspiration as well as a backdrop to her work.
For more details see the First Thursdays website.

Stillness (2013) Paper Collage

Derailed (2014) Paper Collage

Shop opening times: Thursday-Saturday 10AM-6PM, Sunday 10AM-5PM