The mighty mighty Mr Jago has his very own solo show opening at the infamous Stolen Space gallery on Brick lane in the big LDN.
It opens with a private view tommorow (which I unfortunately can’t make, which is a proper gutter) and then opens properly this Friday 12th September until the 28th, so make sure you go and check it out - trust me, it’ll be amazing
Here it is -Belfast exhibition the run-down.. there were delays, talks, exhibitions, a taxi driver called Alan and a pigeon involved. It was immense.
But, lets start with the delays, I probably cursed the whole thing when I previously, carelessly, blogged that we’d just be ‘hopping on‘ slEasyJet.. it wasn’t that easy.
We ended up spending 9 delayed hours in the exciting, organised, stress-free environment of Bristol Airport before “EZY”445 finally got on it’s merry way to Belfast. You should never trust anything that tries to spell ‘EASY’ with a Z.
Once we (finally) got there we joined Pone and Klingatron and set to putting up the last bits of the exhibition.
And also got down to some live art..
Aswell as the exhibition I was giving a talk as part of the SweetTalk event, alongside Dublin-based photographer Aidan Kelly, design duo M&E and artist / illustrator Alan Clarke
Who needs professionalism when we’ve got my presentation “How the flip did that dude get there? - An Incoherent Waffle by Gavin Strange”
Which was a time-line of my work, from skateboard-balancing College youngling..
To older, wiser, hat-wearing now..
Once that was done, there was much love and rejoicing amongst the Xyn brotherhood..
The next day our new best friend Alan the taxidriver took us on a tour around all of Belfast, so as well as hitting it up in an arty-fashion we got to see the sights - result. One non-delayed flight later and I had two very exciting things waiting for me on the doorstep..
1) A down and out Pigeon, and..
2) My first shipment of Droplets ! They are, officially, as slick as rick.
They’re now on sale at the Jam-Factory shop and, if your from out-side the UK from the good people at the Crazy-Label shop.
Well, thats it for now kids. Keep safe and eat your greens.
Our very own Klingatron will be exhibiting at Australia’s premier celebration of international street and stencil art; The Melbourne Stencil Festival! Celebrating it’s Fifth year running with art from five continents, the 10 day event promises to “..bring a colourful program of exhibitions, artist live demonstrations, artist talks, panel discussions, workshopes, master classes and street art related films to the public.”
Well, it sounds exciting to us - over the past four years the Festival has featured some 800 works by 150 artists including Logan Hicks, Kenji Nakayama, Broken Cow, Mephisto Jones, Sixten and Australian artists Anthony Lister, Meggs, HaHa, and Vexta.
So, if your in the Melbourne Area (and we really, really wish we were) on the 1st - 10th August then check it out!
Yet another collab with a super talented compadre… long-time supporter of the xyn Greg Abbott knocked-up this rad piece of typography for us, be sure to see it on something soon!
Check Gregs Flickr for more of his work: flickr.com/photos/iamgregabbott/
Thanks to Wordpress, the site has now lost all the other pages and all the links, because it decided to take it upon itself to delete them during an upgrade.
I’ll have to re-write them from scratch so bear with us until i put them back up again, but the blog is working fine so that’s not going anywhere, thank god!
~ Gav.
Pone’s been hard at work, turning his typography screenprint into a t-shirt, and hes hand-printed a super small run of his ‘xyn will rock you’ graphic onto blue & purple tee’s…
I’ll post more info later on how you can get your mitts on one - theres only 10-or-so left, so if you want to reserve one, drop Pone an email on alex_fowkes@hotmail.com
Hello all, welcome back to the spruced-up site - I took a lil’ time to sort out the site - tweak the design a bit and add new content, have a surf around and see what you can find!
Stay tuned for more news on our Belfast exhibition and what we’ve been upto too!
Cheers ears,
~ Gav.
We’re very proud of the exhibitions we’ve put on so far - Our very first solo Xynthetic show took the form of a mini arts ‘tour’ that visited Middlesbrough, Nottingham & Bristol and we’ve got shows planned for Belfast & Edinburgh this year, we hope it’s the first of many!
Here’s a selection of photos from the Carbon & Chemicals mini arts tour:
Carbon & Chemicals Middlesbrough
Carbon & Chemicals Nottingham
Carbon & Chemicals Bristol
If you’re Midlands-based then come on down to Go Go Plastic! in The Custard Factory, Birmingham next Friday May 2nd for the launch of my vinyl toy ‘Droplet‘!
Bigger version of the flyer @ www.jam-factory.com/droplet/
Nothing is set in stone yet, but it looks like we’re going to have just one more exhibition to finish off 2008!
We’re hopefully going to have a show at The GRV gallery in Edinburgh, which is a sweet looking space We’re going to go polar opposite of the carbon & chemicals idea, so super hi-tech for this one, keep your eyes peeled!
JamFactory’s having his very own Vinyl Toy launch in just over 3 weeks time, so here’s some more images to wet your appetite!
DW went off to the land where everythings illegal last week with the european Vans team! He’s blogged some sick photos, peep them on his blog @ mrwainwright.blogspot.com
Xyn SHREDDER Sam Taylor has got a nice 2-page ‘first light’ feature in the latest Sidewalk magazine, so massive props to him!!
Click the image for a larger version
That’s right folks, just one day to go until the Nottingham show! Im currently sitting in my room in Bristol, surrounded by artwork and stuff to take back, as in an hours time I make the journey to Notts to meet up with Waste, Klingatron & Pone to start hanging the work!
I really hope you can make it down, we’re going to be working as hard as we can to put on a great show - so from the work on the walls to the live art, you can be sure we’re giving it our all!
The goodie bags are being prepped too, I’ve burnt off just 10 copies of the hand-made / super8 film by Robbie Keast & Danny Wainwright onto DVD and popped them in a random selection of goodie bags, and Ive also put an all-black one-of-two production sample of my vinyl toy ‘Droplet‘ in one random bag too!! (I only received 2 black samples, the first prototypes I ever got to see so it’s pretty special!)
If that isn’t enough to entice you, well then I guess I’d better mention the free drinks then hadn’t i… They’ll be beer & wine available at the show* and then if you’re carrying on to the Orange Tree with us for the after party, show off your xynthetic logo hand-stamp and you’ll get another free drink or two** plus happy-hour price cocktails!
It’s bank holiday Friday, what else are you going to do with your night?
Friday 21st March 6.00 - 10.00pm
The Art Organization,
21 Station Street, Nottingham (literally opposite the train station)
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After party @ Orange Tree
38 Shakespeare Street, NG1 4FQ
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Hope to see you there!
* Until it runs out
** Until the barman tells you you can’t have anymore freebies
