advice to sink in slowly

† Two Crosses †

Project contributor Daryl Waller is exhibiting at Newlyn Art Gallery this week as part of the Curator’s Edition programme of events which encourage emerging curators and artist groups to experiment in a gallery setting.

Hope see you there!

Also of interest:

Tales of the unexpected

Daryl’s advice poster.

Related:

Second nature at Vitreous

Thanks to everyone who visited the advice to sink in slowly exhibition at the Poly.

My favourite part of organising these projects is the hanging e I had a great time playing with different combinations of the posters (for inspiration, I recommend looking at how Little Friends of Printmaking e Analogue Books hang their shows).

Rebecca painted two examples of messages from graduates to first years, onto the gallery wall…

Tem brought books, furniture, a chess set, cushions, a spinning globe, a tv, plants, a dvd player e a typewriter from home e created a unique e welcoming space it was hard to leave at the end of the day…

… e Chris Stonehill coloured his brilliant comic introduction to the project e we printed it A1 for the exhibition.

It was wonderful to see the reaction to the posters e to talk about the project, with staff, students e most of all lots of people unconnected to the University. We sold out of 14 different poster designs e sold over 200 posters in five days, which was extraordinary.

Seeing all the posters together made me realise how far the project has come in a year e how much work people have put into it. It can sometimes feel quite a fragile thing to work on, but the show itself e people’s response to it has made me really excited about where it’s going to go next.

You can see more photos of the exhibition here.

Thanks to everyone who came for making it such a special evening. 

I didn’t take many photos on the night as it was too dark for my phone camera, but I went back the day after to document the drawings e was met with the wonderful smell of mulled wine still in the air e a really nice mood about the place.

Really cold night, NinosKika performing (amazing - thank you guys!), people drinking e talking about what they were going to pass on, watching people draw and my favourite moment; people drawing while NinosKika were playing. 

You can see photos of all the evening’s drawings here.

Leaf Tea House is now open for events bookings e lots of people were coming up with ideas… backgammon nights, poetry evenings, exhibitions and I’d love to do another of these themed evenings with live music e space for people to draw.

If you’d like to book Leaf please call James on: 01326 211424 or you can e-mail him at james@leafteahouse.com.

Coming soon: photos of the advice to sink in slowly exhibition at The Poly plus the online shop will be up e running in the next few days.

Everybody has a piece of advice they wish they had known earlier.  It could be something you learnt yesterday or were lucky to have learnt much earlier.

Come to Leaf Tea House on Friday 23rd November, between 4-9pm and pass it on in a creative way. 

Art materials, mulled wine and a big sheet of paper supplied. Plus a free new advice to sink in slowly poster to the first 30 people through the door.

To be confirmed: NinosKika may be performing a short set, including a song they have written for the project.

It’s such a pleasure putting these up around the place…

A very big thank you to Robert Evans of Telegramme Studio and for the new advice poster you can see here.

Some exhibition plans:

Participatory evening at Leaf Tea House

Friday 23rd November, 4-9pm

Everybody has a piece of advice they wish they had known earlier. Come to Leaf e pass it on in a creative way. Art materials, mulled wine and a big sheet of paper supplied. Plus a free poster to the first 30 people through the door.

Exhibition of all 80 poster designs at Falmouth Arts Centre

26th November - 1st December, 10am - 5pm

Background to project, selection of poster blurbs and all the posters for sale including our first Poster/CD package, a collaboration between Matt Davies e Richard Dinnis (more details soon).

Exhibition private view at Falmouth Arts Centre

Wednesday 28th November, 6-9pm

To be confirmed: NinosKika may be performing a short set at the private view, including a song they have written for the project.

Can’t say it enough, but is such a pleasure to work on this e think of being surrounded by all the posters. Thanks to everyone involved for making this possible.

The second edition of POST launches tomorrow.

I have been allowed a peak and there is so much packed inside, but I should especially mention two items produced in association with the advice project:

* An edited transcript of a conversation between William Lilley, Temujin Doran and David Mathews, the full recording of which will be uploaded onto this blog on Monday as a podcast.

* An exclusive two-sided limited print by David Mathews and Temujin Doran tucked in amongst the beautiful pages.

Take a bow Dean Owens, Jon Blyth and Steve Bond of TEAM POST.

Related:

Post the first issue

If you’ve seen his advice poster, you will want to see the works by Daryl Waller on display at the second nature exhibition, being jointly held at Vitreous Gallery and Truro Cathedral until the 13th October.

Update: An excellent review, images and a short film of the show can be seen here.

More Cornwall projects are currently taking place across Cornwall, including work by Anne Karhu, Adam Clarke, Paul Carter and Alexandra Zierle at the Morrab Library, Daryl Waller for Tales of the Unexpected and Oliver Sutherland for dot dot dash and gostopgo.

You can read more about the shows at the artcornwall website here and artist’s newsletter here. 

And finally, Mr P Hubris urgently requests you support his campaign to ‘stamp out bad art in Cornwall.’