Urban Contemporary Art & Street Photography, curated by Ben Eine and Dougie Wallace
Bidding is now OPEN on Art on a Postcard’s Urban Contemporary Art & Street Photography auction to raise money and awareness for The Hepatitis C Trust. Lovely to have two artworks included in the show…
Halcyon / dark carnival and Revolver / oxidised at Catto, June 2019
Lovely to get a new commission to produce a pair of drawings for an Austrian collector this June. These two pieces, Halcyon and Revolver are both 120cm square.
Art on a Postcard, coming soon...
Art on a Postcard raises money for The Hepatitis C Trust’s campaign to eliminate hepatitis C by the year 2025. We engage world-renowned artists to take part in our secret auctions and special events.
POP! At the Catto Gallery, May 2019
Lovely to be included at the Catto Gallery again this spring, for their POP! exhibition. Not entirely sure I fit the brief, but it's a pleasure to be hung alongside an incredibly strong group of artists.
Exhibiting artists: Deborah Azzopardi / Alain Bertrand / Peter Blake / Sebastian Burdon / Chuck Elliott / David Gerstein / Perish The Thought / David Spiller / Walasse Ting / Russell West
Stronger Together / Blackwater Gallery
Blackwater Gallery is excited to announce the release of their forthcoming exhibition “Stronger Together”
“We strongly believe in supporting local talent and we want to use this exhibition as a platform for both emerging and established artists alike, giving them the opportunity to showcase their body of works in a modern and contemporary art gallery.” Jamie Aherne, Gallery Director
Edition #10 sent!
Pleased to let you know that Edition #10 of the Experimental Print Club left the studio yesterday, so I hope it'll be with you shortly. Please do let me know if it doesn't arrive in due course.
London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy / Promo video
A short promo video about the London Original Print Fair, held annually at the Royal Academy on Piccadilly, featuring work by many of today’s most interesting contemporary printmakers.
London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy 2019
London Original Print Fair is held annually at the Royal Academy on Piccadilly, featuring work by many of today’s most interesting contemporary printmakers.
Collectible IV, A.Galerie, Paris / Opening 7pm, Thursday 4th April 2019
If you’re lucky enough to be in Paris this month, you may like to visit what looks set to be a really interesting group show at A.Galerie, just north of the Musée d'Art Moderne.
Curated by Arnaud Adida, I’m delighted to have four pieces included in the hang, alongside works by stellar photographic artists including David LaChapelle, Rankin and Elliott Erwitt.
Stellify 3 / EPC / Experimental Print Club Edition #10
I’m just completing the first of what I hope will be quite a few new Print Club editions for 2019. It’s a little behind the spring equinox, but nevertheless I hope it may represent a small celebration of the lengthening days, and increasing light levels as we head into the summer. It’s an exciting time of year to my mind…
Modern Art Buyer show til 31st March, Milsom Place, Bath
Great to have a few works on show with Jess Lloyd-Smith @modernartbuyer in Bath this month. The show continues to March 31st @MilsomPlace
The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, Spring 2019
I'll be exhibiting work at The Other Art Fair this weekend. If you're in the East End, and you'd like to come and say hello, I have some complimentary passes for the fair, and some tickets for the private view too. Do get in touch if you'd like me to email one out to you.
New website launched today!
After several months of editing, writing, retouching and designing, I'm delighted to have finally launched my new website, v4.0, which seems to have been too long in the making, but is finally complete, at least until the inevitable first update is required!
Stellify EPC in progress, Feb 5th 2019
Thought it was about time I sent over a sketch of my latest Print Club offering. Not entirely sure where the work is headed yet, but thought you might be interested to see an in progress image - Stellify EPC v04 SET_A 12k COMP v09 FLAT. You can tell from the working title that there have been quite a few iterations of this piece already.
Happy New Year!
I was visiting Ripe Digital recently, a superb short run commercial digital printer based locally in Corsham, where Bath School of Art have some of their studio space, and Howard Hodgkin used to teach. Rik at Ripe Digital introduced me to their new digital foiling machine. In essence, this is a short run, or one off, opportunity to apply metallic foils to my print work. A process that previously demanded bespoke metal dies and long print runs to be even vaguely affordable. It's an idea /process that I hope will continue on from where the recent Klint / cut piece left off.
So I'm experimenting with the idea of making a pair of foil based works for the club, in which several, perhaps four, coloured foils will be used to create two new works, probably with some inked areas too. Maybe ish 12 inches square each. Not sure yet, but will keep you posted as the work progresses.
In conversation with Helena Cardow, TAG Fine Arts
HC Tell us about your background?
CE I started as an art student in 1984 I think, studying illustration at Bath Technical College, and went from there to a Foundation year, followed by a BA (Hons) degree, so seven years at college in all. My BA was at the old Hornsey School of Art, now amalgamated into Middlesex University. Personally, I would’ve been in favour of the UK retaining its independent network of art schools, I don’t think they are or should be departments in larger universities. Historically British art schools have often been absolute powerhouses of contemporary artistic and political thinking, and are more than capable of standing alone in my opinion! That said, I was delighted to graduate in ’92 with a First class Hons degree, and from there I moved straight into Soho’s art and design scene…
An interview and studio visit from Helena Cardow, one of TAG Fine Arts’ curators, and regular exhibitor at the London Art Fair, the London Original Print Fair and Ink Miami, amongst many other annual events.
Oink Gallery / Solo show
A solo show at Mark Pepperall’s Oink Gallery, a hybrid art and design space that showcases some of the best urban art and contemporary print in the South West.
Oink Gallery / Promo video
A short promo film for Mark Pepperall’s Oink Gallery, a hybrid art and design space that showcases some of the best urban art and contemporary print in the South West.
Klint / CUT, Experimental Print Club Edition #9
Spent a good day yesterday working on the 9th edition for my Experimental Print Club. I’ve been making 3 or 4 smaller ephemeral works on paper each year for the club, as a kind of loosening up idea, with the intention of trying out new ideas that may feedback into my main practice, whilst simultaneously creating some hopefully quite collectable smaller works that go out to club members in the post. It’s a nice concept that coerces me to make some new smaller works each year.
EPC edition 9, Klint / cut
I’m just on the brink of making Edition 9 for the print club. The autumn edition for 2018. Having told you that I'm planning to make a piece on silk, and a ‘mantle piece’ in my last post (I’m still intent on making both of these) I’ve been somewhat waylaid by an interesting colour proof print experiment, which I think will make a good new edition to colour up the autumn. Time will tell. In essence it’s a kind of collage from some proofs of my Klint prints, mixed with some foil fragments, collaged onto a sheet of Somerset paper, by way of a backing sheet, with debossing. That's the plan anyway, I'll send some progress images shortly…