Using the studio: events
ELP co-ordinates professional development and social events for the benefit of participating members (outlined below). The studio is a meeting point for artists to network with the East London community and visitors are also welcome to join us during print sales or open studio events.
ELP and friends summer fête
You are invited to take part in this brand new summer event. The fête will take place in the courtyard at Space on Saturday 17 July to coincide with ELP's exhibition in the gallery. The plans so far include:
- ELP -Le Gun collaborative linocut to be printed with a steam roller
- Tea and cakes and BBQ
- Print your own bags/t-shirts
- Games, tombola of drawings, raffle
- Face painting Le Gun style
- Live music and performance
- Invited stalls including Material and others
Artist's talks
ELP members and guest artists are invited to give presentations about their work. These are usually held on a Tuesday at 7pm unless otherwise indicated. Please email catherinewalsh@eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk to register interest or with any queries about the artist's talks.
15 June: Nick White, illustrator
Nick works for Heart Illustration agency. He combines found imagery with drawing and painting to create myriad surfaces of faces, eyes, pattern and texture. Motifs mingle with symbols and signs, plucked from their original contexts, in unexpected combinations.
This creative outpouring manifests itself in books, drawings, animation and films. Nick's work revolves around (in)consistent (anti)themes and styles; nostalgic pop culture; uncanny mis-matchings, and birds, to name but a few.
Nick has hundreds of found books, magazines and leaflets eccentrically filed in old suitcases under his desk. As a self confessed hoarder, charity shops, flea markets and Ebay are his weakness. The magazines are mostly women's magazines from the 50s and 60s. The books mostly catch his eye with the title, especially things like 'Judo for Girls' or 'Russian for Scientists'. Occasionally pressed by the seller into divulging what he will do with said literature, Nick has concocted many a story to hide his interest in what will ultimately result in an act of defacing someone's treasured collection of knitting pamphlets.
He regularly exhibits in London group shows as well as further afield. He has collaborated on moving image projects shown at the Tate Modern, the LABAN and the Imax, London.
Guest artists who have given talks at ELP in the past include:
- ELP Artist in Residence January–June 2010 Daniele Genadry
- artist printmaker and ELP member Chris Pig
- ELP Artist in Residence July–December 2009 Michael Goro
- ELP Artist in Residence January–June 2009 Elizabeth Jackson
- artist printmaker, ELP member and psychologist Judith Symons
- costume textile artist and designer Sarah Shepherd (www.sarahshepherd.com)
- ELP Artist in Residence July–December 2008 Janna van Hasselt
- multimedia artist Magnus Irvin (www.magnusirvin.co.uk)
- Leigh Clarke (www.leighclarkeworks.com)
- ELP member Peter Rapp
Peer critique
ELP members are invited to bring their artwork to share their ideas and receive feedback from others in an informal atmosphere.
Breakfast club
Dedicated especially to recent newcomers for breaking the ice but open to everyone who would like to catch up in a relaxed fashion and compare areas of interest and work, the next breakfast club will take place on Sunday 13 June 2010 at 11.30am in the studio. I bring rolls, jam and coffee, please feel free to add to that, and please don't be too shy to join!Please email katjarosenberg@eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk if you are planning to attend the breakfast club.
Michael Goro's artist's talk