SEE THESE

Hello (again) to the new first year. I Thought I would kick of the new information added to the blog by suggesting you all make a visit to tate britain before the onset of work in the studio. There is the labyrinthine installation by tuner prize nominee Mike Nelson - room upon room of unnerving props/sets to wander through.

Also there is fiona banner's work to peruse in the main space. She has installed two ex RAF planes one of which has been polished back to the raw metal.

then just round the corner at Chelsea Space, Chelsea School of Art's exhibition space, there is a small but perfectly formed Barney Bubbles exhibition. The graphic designer noted for, amongst other things, his highly symbol laden records sleeves...

ps all shows are free

Welcome to the incoming first year

A quick one to say hello and welcome to all incoming first year to the Illustration Course at Camberwell. We are all looking forward to meeting you and working alongside you over the coming years.

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/

Final Biopic projects on Vimeo

Well done to you all. Some very accomplished work in terms of ideas, narrative and depiction, and for many of you a first foray into film making/animation to any large degree, so the technical aspects are also showing great promise.

Here is the link of those uploaded to Vimeo...

http://vimeo.com/groups/45714/videos

SEE THIS. Ronald Searle exhibition.

This show at the cartoonmuseum is really good.

Ronald Searle - Graphic Master
A 90th birthday celebration
3 March – 4 July 2010

‘To say he is an artist is no more than the truth, but he is more than that: he is our greatest living cartoonist with a lifelong dedication to his craft … His work is truly international, yet absolutely grounded in the English comic tradition.’ Steve Bell

Possibly useful for your show in that there are lots of the very most excellent drawing as reportage you will ever see.

At the risk of being Bombastic (what Me, Bombastic?) I would say that all people who hope to call themselves illustrators or cartoonists should see this show.

http://www.cartoonmuseum.org.whisky.webhoster.co.uk/site/

Also new stuff on my Blog - http://zeel-illustration.blogspot.com/

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

Pictoplasma - Pen to Paper @ Concrete Hermit

Another useful exhibition for you and your Biopic project. Here's the blurb from the Concrete Hermit website...

26th March – 24th April 2010

Berlin based project Pictoplasma is regarded as the world’s leading authority on contemporary character design. Starting with the first Conference in 2004, a diverse, international audience has been attending Pictoplasma Festivals in Berlin, New York and Argentina establishing a vast creative network and lively exchange of ideas. It’s numerous publications and events focusing on the impact and role of character design within the world of contemporary art and design have found international acclaim.

Their latest publication, Pen to Paper, launches in the UK with an exhibition at Concrete Hermit on the 25th March. The book presents the most adventurous images of a select group of international artists whose work finds its genesis in traditional analogue techniques. The recent revival of analogue skills has injected immeasurable visual wealth into the world of illustration, fine art and especially character design. Artists reject the computer and channel their creativity through spontaneous freehand drawing. The spontaneity of this kind of creativity allows for a more free-flowing form of expression, leading to edgy and untamed beings, erupting with energy – the perfect antidote to the plethora of digital imagery abundant today.

The exhibition will feature a fine selection of figurative drawings, watercolours and collages.