Badlands, Scott Campbell’s western-themed new works show gallops into Rivet on November 6th.
Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, November 6th from 7-10pm. Scott C. will be in attendance. Meet and tip your hat to Scott. Complimentary beverages by Magic Hat, so prepare to bend an elbow.
Exhibition will be on display through November 30th.
click for all the artists involved ^
Head on down to Kidrobot London from Friday 15th – 22nd October for the last stop on the Custom Tea Tour. From 6pm Friday, Matt JOnes & special guest artists will be in store signing for charity. It will also be your chance to bag one of the awesome Custom Teas which will be auctioned off to raise money for the NSPCC, so it’s a total win win situation :] Stay tuned for further Lunartik updates!
Last month we posted the WIP Jouwe Custom by the Yellow Dino. Well now it’s completed, say hello to Bono the Robber Cat
Meet Bono, an adorable cat who enjoy acquiring stuff, especially when its belong to someone else! He has courage like a tiger, nothing can ever keep him from doing what he likes. One of ‘em is playing hide & seek with you. Only remember, when he hides himself, he might hide your stuff too
He’s not a bad guy though, he just love to play. Watching your confuzzled face excites him the most. There he goes, living his playful days. Until one day God thought enough is enough and punished him.
Don’t worry, God is sincere so he kindly put a provision: each time Bono robs something, his horn will raise 1mm above his head so that Bono will always reminded of his own mistakes. On the other hand, his horn will shrink if he’s being good. How many milimeters has grown above Bono’s head? Guess Bono will never stop robbing, no? ….it’s okay Bono, we love you anyway.
This piece will be part of the Custom Jouwe exhibition at ArtyFarty Gallery and Galerie Zimmermann-Heitmann in Germany during October & November
Small Stakes: Posters by Jason Munn
A new exhibition and book launch
Book Signing and new print release
On Saturday October 9th California based artist Jason Munn of The Small Stakes will be at the Richard Goodall Gallery for a special one day event and the launch and signing of his new book from 12-5pm. A unique chance to meet the man behind the art for Death Cab For Cutie, Flight of the Conchords, and hundreds of other posters. There will also be an exclusive poster released on the day for the exhibition of his works. The exhibition contains over 100 of Jason’s posters and continues until October 28th Read more here
Entry to the opening event is free. Supported by Vitamin Water
Here are some shots from the Bitbots toy launch & opening of the pop-up shop that is open until 2 October 2010, at 1.11 Kingly Court, Kingly Street, London, W1B 5PW. Head on down to check out the many great custom Jinny figures that are on display and pick up your own Jinny blindbox :]
We recently heard the sad news that Emma Wilkinson had passed away at the young age of 19 from a rare reaction to the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). Emma was the loving girlfriend of up and coming Manchester based illustrator Stickypop aka Matt Daniels.
Taken from Manchester Evening News website:
“Emma Wilkinson, 19, died less than two weeks after falling sick with the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), which lies dormant in most people.
The bug can cause glandular fever in patients, or mild flu-like symptoms.
But Emma’s mum has told how the bug triggered multiple organ failure in her daughter just 13 days after she was admitted to Tameside Hospital.”
The full article can be found here.
Vinyl Abuse heard that Matt was going to hold an exhibition in memory of Emma and we wanted to help him out by promoting the event on our site! We’re really glad to see so many people are helping him out and taking part.
We got in touch with Matt to find out more!
The theme of the pieces is “Cats and Sailors” it’s something that Matt holds close to Emma as her favourite animals were cats which she adored and the sailors part came from her love for Swallows, Anchors and all things “sailorish”. The designers were also given a colour palette to stick to.
The reason behind the exhibit:
I’ve always said I want to do with something for charity, such as an exhibition show but I’ve never had any real reason for doing it, but with my girlfriend Emma recently passing away, I wanted to hold a night in memory of her to show everybody how much she meant to me and to have a really good night raising money for Francis House Hospice.
What made you come up with the idea for an exhibition?
At the end of June my girlfriend Emma was taken into hospital with the flu, but within hours of blood tests, drips and waiting she was rushing into intensive care. It actually turned out to be a virus called Epstein-Barr virus which is glandular fever, but a higher risk version of it. Sadly 2 weeks in intensive care she passed away through her organs shutting down from this virus which is a very rare reaction.
I wanted to do something special in memory of her as 3 months ago, I was packing in illustration, I didn’t feel I was getting anywhere, I just felt like nobody took me seriously, but Emma told me to carry on with it as it’s how she remembered me, what she loved about me, so I decided to show how I stuck with it through everything, I’m holding this exhibition in memory of her. The exhibition is called Squiddles as it was the nickname I gave to Emma which she loved.
How did you go about getting people to take part?
I had a few people in mind already so it was a case of emailing them to see if they’d be up for creating a piece but I had the feeling a lot of people would be too busy to take part as it’s something they’re doing for free to help raise money but as soon as they heard the news, I had a huge stack of people wanting to be involved! Originally I planned 10 pieces to be created but I’ve had to stretch it to 15 and other illustrations have donated pieces to the show to auction/raffle off.
Squiddles Charity Event from Broken Antler on Vimeo.
Place, date and time for the event:
The exhibition will be on the 18th September at the Walrus Bar in Manchester (Northern Quarter) between 3:00pm – 9:30pm.
Walrus Bar
78-88 High Street
Manchester
M4 1ES
Who is taking part / shout outs?
There are so many talented people involved but a few illustrations include Aaron Miller, Superfex, Jam Factory, TADO, Matt Taylor, Katari plus many more fantastic people! I’d like to thank Aaron Miller a lot for taking the time out of his busy life to keep checking up on Emma’s progress and to see how I’m going on, he’s been a massive help! Big thanks to him! As well Jake Ivill for meeting up in Manchester with me, checking up to see how Emma was going on, again thanks to him!
Manchester based cupcake company Oh Crumbs! Cupcakes will be donating some of their delicious treats for the exhibition and will be staying with the theme of the event!
How many of each piece will be available?
There are 15 artists involved with a limited print run of 15 for each piece. Although I have very exclusive prints send by the wonderful TADO, which are a limited run of 30, hand printed Gocco prints!
How much will the prints and t-shirts be on sale for?
The prints will be on a minimum donation of £10 each, if someone would like to donate more to the charity then they can do! The TADO prints will be a minimum donation of £5 each.
Manchester screen printers One69A have kindly donated some Squiddles T-Shirts for the event which will be £15 each with a limited run of 20 T-Shirts!
Where will the money made from the exhibition go to?
I originally wanted the money to go to something related to Emma’s illness but because of how rare the virus was, there wasn’t anything around to donate to. The money will be going to Francis House Hospice who are a great children’s hospice, I chose Francis House due to Emma adoring young children and helping out children has always been something I’d like to do.
A short background about yourself:
I’m a 19 year old freelance Illustrator from Manchester. I’ve studied Graphic Illustration, Applied Art & Design as well as a pre-degree foundation Art Course. I’m planning to hopefully become full time freelance with my own brand as a side project called Squiddles which is in memory of Emma as it was her nickname from me.
Vinyl Abuse will be attending to support this great cause and we look forward to meeting those involved and all the people who will be there showing their support!
Check out the Squiddles Facebook Page here and follow Stickypop on Twitter here for updates on the exhibition!
Progress pics from The Yellow Dino‘s custom for the upcoming Jouwe custom group show that will take place at ArtyFarty Gallery and Galerie Zimmermann-Heitmann in Germany next October & November. Stay tuned for more progress pics, check out The Yellow Dino’s Flickr stream for more pics
Rivet presents two solo shows for the month of September.
The Things We Have Lost by Shannon Bonatakis and The Denizen’s of Odditoria by Jimmy Pickering.
Solo shows featuring the work of Shannon Bonatakis and Jimmy Pickering. Mediums used acrylic, oil and graphite. Opening reception will be this Saturday, September 4th from 7-10pm with artist Shannon Bonatakis in attendance. The exhibition will be on display through September 29th.
Click HERE for additional information about the artists
For those that didn’t know, we have recently set up a Vinyl Abuse Flickr Group for everyone to share their photos!
The other day JamFactory aka Gavin Strange dropped this photo of his awesome Jinny custom which will be appearing at the launch event in London!
“Jats Gill, the man behind the UK’s newest vinyl toy company ‘Bitbots‘ asked me if I’d be part of the launch event of their first toy ‘Jinny’ by customizing a blank version for the show! It’s been a while since I’ve customized a toy but I gave it a shot! As I always tend to do with customs, I have a thing for pulling the head off and turning it upside down – I’m glad I did, as it made me think of a bird of prey, with it’s beak poking out.
I got out the milliput and sculpted a ‘lip’ around the bottom of the head, so it looked like a military helmet with the beak poking out as well as smoothing over the top where the hole was and voila, it was ready to sand down and paint.
Using a nice chrome for the helmet and a olive green for the body, all that was left was to try my hand at dry-brushing, giving the helmet and body a bit of a rusted feel! And voila, what you see above is the finished thing, I call him “General Ruffles III”. You can check out what the original looks like here.
Thanks to Jats at Bitbots and all the best with the launch, always good to support homegrown british tings!”
Nice work Gavin! We can’t wait to see the other customs that will be appearing at the show!
Got some photos to share? Join the Vinyl Abuse Flickr Group! Your work might end up being featured on our site!
As featured on the KidRobot Kronikle blog, The Lovely Lowbrow Toy Show opened last Saturday to a packed crowd from 4:30pm-9:00pm at Square Records Gallery in Akron, OH. This custom show marks the first annual event organized by Vivid Plastic : Designer Toy Store. The crowd was a good mix of lowbrow art enthusiasts, toy collectors, and locals from the eclectic Highland Square neighborhood.
Over 30 custom pieces are on display with Akron’s top artists: Julia Bunn, Jeff Lamm, Jamie Suvak, Joshua Davis, Kate Budd, Charlie Wagers, and Jaron Tager. As a special surprise, Vivid Plastic invited graffiti artist Sh!t Heap of San Francisco showing his “Cloudy with a Chance of Rad” custom. The blend of Akron based tattoo artists, graffiti artists, illustrators, and lowbrow painters made for a visually stunning exhibition.
Hit the jump to check out some of the awesome customs that are on display..
Pào is a wedge head carrot with a bad attitude. His background is dubious, even he doubts his own existence. One day, Pào finds that a balloon has grown behind his head. Pào doesn’t know it, but this marks the start of a change which is to affect him… in a way.
Dorcas Ng aka Pào will be presenting Pào & the balloon @ Dreams London.
Dreams London 2010 is a group exhibition of 50 young designers and artists from 15 different countries, sharing the same dream to set up an exhibition, showing London how passion and belief can make something amazing happen. Innovative, interesting, mysterious and fun ideas involving 20+ different types of creativities, Dreams Exhibition provides a stage for these young creators to show their talent.
This Saturday (7th August, 5:00 – 7:00pm) marks the opening of the Mystical Fragments exhibition, a big display of vinyl toys, canvas paintings, framed drawings and more from the super talented UK designer who goes by the name of Squink!
The event is being help at the designer toy and art gallery Ik’Sentrik in Bath. Check out the sneaky peak that Squink! sent over of what will be appearing at the show!
Everything on display at the exhibit will be for sale! This is a great opportunity to get yourself a piece (or 2) of Squinks awesome work! Anything that doesn’t get sold will be going onto his online store shortly after the show, so for all you guys who won’t be able to make it (like me), there may be hope for you yet! Don’t hold your breathe though, considering how fast his recent customs have sold, I’m pretty sure this stuff isn’t gonna be sticking around for long!
Check out all the goodies, packed and ready to go!!
Squink! – Mystical Fragments Exhibition
Ik’Sentrik
3 George Street
Bath
BA1 2EH
