Tom Joad Was Here

Fancy getting involved in a community street art project? Tom Joad Was Here is essentially a call-for-entry poster contest where users can submit and download posters that are based on the current economic crisis. Users are encouraged to paste, hang, distribute the posters.

Raking Leaves in the Wind

Eve Duhamel wrote to tell us about her new exhibition, “Raking Leaves in the Wind“. Eve says, “It will feature my work and work of artists and designers Julien Vallée and Brent Wadden. The opening is on October 29th in Berlin. It will feature past and new work including drawings, paintings, installation and videos.”

Design Event 08

As a resident of the North East, the Design Event design festival is something I really look forward to. It’s about to launch, but with bookings for events really starting to get busy, it may be wise to get in now to secure your place. This year’s event looks ace, with a plethora of stuff to do/visit/go to watch, so get involved!

This is from the official site…”The North East’s annual design festival is back! DE08 includes exhibitions, walking tours, a fashion show, workshops, talks, a design day out and the opportunity to buy work from the region’s design talent, there’s sure to be something to entice and inspire!”

Illustrative Zurich 2008

René Faßbender dropped us a line to tell us about the upcoming Illustrative exhibition this October in Zurich. René says, “The Illustrative is an art festival for illustrative art, originally from Berlin (last year Paris), it will be now realised with some partners in zurich and Switzerland.”

This is from the official site… “From October 17th to October 26th ILLUSTRATIVE’s 4th forum of illustrative an graphic arts will take place in the Zurich Messehallen. Conceived in 2006 by Pascal Johanssen and Katja Kleiss in Berlin, ILLUSTRATIVE is an annual forum, and the only one of it’s kind worldwide that presents the latest inclinations which run the gamut of illustrative and graphic art in one exhibition.

Illustrative art is fresh, humorous, and easily accessible: the scope of work displayed in ILLUSTRATIVE ranges from psychedelic wall paintings, to erotic neon pop art, while presenting monumental town views, as well as quasi photo-realistic drawings. The special sensitivity to artistic quality and a mix of analogue and digital techniques give a special progressiveness to the illustrative arts. This has decisively influenced the development of contemporary art for some time now.

The latest ILLUSTRATIVE has expanded in comparison to previous years. It now includes a central exhibition, section exhibitions, temporary workshops, and a forum for presentations and conferences.”

Kings Place

Music lovers and artists in the South East of England may be interested by a new creative centre just about to open up in London called Kings Place.

Santiago Hermosa picks it up for us..”Kings Place is a new creative centre in London presenting music, painting and sculpture from around the world. The building & decorating works of our waterfront development have now been completed and we are ready to open our doors to the public on the 1st of October.

Starting the 1st of October we have the exhibitions “Rock Music Rock Art” and “Sterling Stuff” at the Pangolin Gallery and the exhibition “Past in Future” by Nicolaus Widerberg. We will also be holding various conferences and school rooms on sculpture and art.”

For more information on events, times and prices, click here »