Third Year External Show

As you are shaping up already so well for your 2012 graduation shows with all the good work towards your end of first year show, it seems fitting to put in a link to inspire you further with what the Camberwell Illustration Third Years of 2010 have put together to promote their external show, so have a look here...

http://www.save-our-souls.co.uk/

Inspiration for Camberwell Festival/end of year show 2010

From the book Tangible- High Touch Visuals...

Superhero presentations of usually uncelebrated workers

Dioramas built from found objects like food, sugar and drawing pins...Fantastical possibilities of pound shops / hardware shops of Camberwell spring to mind...

Recognisably recreated food packaging without the usual type/branding. Could you appropriate found foods and objects and insert your own stories and branding?

YCN's revived dead tree (members of the public stick on new colourful paper leaves). Renewal/regenerational aspirations. Also see the relief made from abstracted maps and emblems of town planning

Celebrating the usually unseen backs of houses. Often Georgian houses have grand facades and bleaker, plainer backs. What tales of the unseen Camberwell can you tell?

Jessica Stockholder's transformation of the mundane into painterly installations, from found objects like mattresses and the insides of old fridge doors.

Haim Steinbach's mock shop displays. His work investigates status and value systems / shopping / shelf display / ethnography / reading of objects.

Georgina Starr's installations recreating nostalgic scenarios and experiences created with found objects and filmed or drawn narrative elements

Manfred Pernice's personalisation of civic architecture in models which investigate the interlacing of personal / public, via neutral stripped back and extracted forms from the built environment juxtaposed and overlayed with hints of narrative detail.

Fischli and Weiss's recreation/celebration and use of everyday objects to build surprising landscapes and scenarios (e.g. cigarette butts/ hotdogs/ cardboard boxes to make an urban scene). You may know their incredible and influential Der Lauf Der Dinge video / installation.

Mark Dion's taxonomic collections from a locale/for a theme, challenging but aping ideologies, and scientific categorisations of history, knowledge and the natural world, rewriting the past and envisioning futures.

Laura Oldfield Ford's psychogeographic drawings and zines of locales of London and their changing histories and narratives. Read about her vision of the post-olympic future of East London here

Olivier Kugler's reportage illustration

Pick Me Up, contemporary graphic art fair at Somerset House

Worth looking at in preparation for your end of year show, and as a follow on from your society group project you just did...Blurb from the Somerset House website about this exciting art fair...

23 April - 3 May 2010

Embankment Galleries, South Wing 
£5, concessions £4


Open daily 10.00-19.00, until 20.00 on Fri 23 April and Thur 29 April.


Special Glug evening Wed 28 April, 19.00-22.30, £7.50


Somerset House presents Pick Me Up, the first contemporary graphic art fair in the UK. The fair will bring together the most exciting graphic artists working today, giving you the opportunity to buy limited edition, affordable graphic art, illustration and design.

 The fair will be presented alongside a lively programme of events and activities including an open studio from legendary paper artist Rob Ryan.

Buy graphic prints, drawings,

t-shirts and fanzines

Art and design collectives and galleries, including Evening Tweed,It’s Nice That, Print Club London, Nobrow, Concrete Hermit, Le Gun, Peepshow, Landfill Editions, Nous Vous, will set up shop at Somerset House selling specially commissioned work. With graphic prints, drawings as well as T-shirts and fanzines on sale, there will be something for everyone.

The space will include screen-printing workshops run by Print Club London with invited guest designers drawn from the great and the good of the graphic design world, and a programme of film screenings curated by It’s Nice That.

Interventions on spaces and the public

Sol LeWitt's wall drawings and structures. His work spanned from works on paper to monumental structures outdoors and inside spaces. Often progressions of geometric forms (he was originally inspired by the motion capture photography of Eadweard Muybridge), and often reactions to the spaces they occurred in. See more via here.

Jenny Holzer's projections. Subverting the expected commercial voice inherant in the medium of billboards/public projections or broadcast, she creates interventions on the public space with intimate, personal, directly arresting messages. Highlighting the individual voice, comforting the oppressed, showing defiance against political or commercial mind-control and propaganda. See more via here and here

Peepshow exhibitions demonstrating exciting and surprising use of construction and collage to build installations and large scale illustrations. Looking forward to their next one starting next week.

Richard Long's first ever piece of what we now call Land Art – "A Line Made By Walking". Shown via here. See his site here. The Tate Britain is currently showing a retrospective of his work.

A Walking and Running Circle

"Ambient" advertising via here

More large scale illustrative interventions on spaces courtesy of the collaborative exhibition MEBEMEWEBE at Islands Fold...

And at the Nobrow publication launch exhibition at DreamBagsJaguarShoes. Note use of limited palette, a similar constraint that you have been encouraged to work within. See more here

Collections from locations oragnised in taxonomic displays in plastic sample bags (like forensic evidence bags), by Jake Tilson for his project called City Picture Fiction 1991-1999.

Nous Vous poster using paper relief /collage

More Nous Vous site specific work

and with uplifiting slogans of perseverance...something you could employ in your Leisure Centre work?

Ways to cover large surfaces with grids of smaller sheets of paper via here... In this case it is a blown up pixellated image...this process of tiling an image can be done in photoshop, or as similarly pixellated images via here. Warning... you may need a LOT of ink in your printer!

Workshop/prize awards ideas courtesy of here

The work of Charlotte Mann, using Colorama paper to draw life size scenes.

Jorge Orta... We need projectors like these!

Martino Gamper's interactive modular furniture building workshops. Setting certain parameters for the participants to work within but still create something unique.

And another workshop at an early V&A Village Fete...furniture built to order on-site using previously gathered elements.

More Village Fete inventive interactive fun via here....

more via here

and note the sport-based physically interactive piece here

If you could's stall at the V&A Village fete

Chrissie Macdonald's "Overgrown" – unearthly, unique, "living" things emerge from dilapidated/abandoned/homogenised manmade space.

More responses to space in design and illustration via here

Work done in answer to Stefan Sagmeister's brief Things I have learned in my life so far

Hvass and Hannibal

Saul Steinberg

Annette Messager via here

David Tremlett's Drawings for Spaces. Often ephemeral drawings in pastel, which can be almost blown or wiped away, other times more permanent. His works are again site-specific. and use colours and shapes which respond to the environments in which they are created, such as using dusts taken from the earth to make pigments, or drawing shapes which echo the play of light on a ceiling, as shown below.

Via Grafik

Riitta Ikonen