I had the great great honour of being asked to exhibit and talk at Pictoplasma this year in Berlin. It was the first time I had visited the city and the festival itself and I'm now hooked. I'll be back next year as a ticket holder for sure as the festival has such an incredible atmosphere and I love how the speakers, artists and attendees all mingle together drinking, talking and laughing.
I took an updated version of my Masks show out to the festival to exhibit as part of their 'Character Walk' that takes place through the Mitte district in 16 different venues. New collaboration work with Felt Mistress and my father were the main features of the show. I can't thank them both enough for their hard work and time making this show something so much better than I could ever manage on my own.
Felt Mistress' Masks were hung from fishing wire so that they seem to just float in the air in front of the wooden masks on the back wall. It really made the front room come to life.
The last felt mask was used in the back room along with all the mask prints. 11 prints were exhibited in total. I cut a few from the original show in favour some new incarnations.
Here is my good friend and illustrator, Nikko Barber modelling the Goom mask. I'd like to say a big thank you to Nikko for his hospitality and help through the show. A truly great human bean.
The lovely Felt Mistress' new look and the awesome Tippy.
Above is the new mask that I made with my Father. He really is utterly amazing. I can't wait to start work on some new sculpture projects with him.
Below is a picture that was taken during my character lab talk at .HBC (picture by Tamar Moshkovitz). A big thank you to everyone who came along, I was so surprised and happy to see such a great turn out.
Last but not least I would love to say a big thank you to Peter and Lars for inviting me to be a part of the Pictoplasma festival this year, Danielle for all here help organising my show and the venue and the rest of the Pictoplasma team for their incredible hard work.
Recent editorial piece for Architectural Review to accompany a piece written by Sir Peter Cook about the Architect, Sculptor and Artist, Pancho Guedes. I had to loosen up and work with a strong flourish of Pancho' s visual language. It was tricky but fun to still keep a sense of myself and Pancho in the final illustration.
Opening on the 3rd March at Gallery Nucleus in Los Angeles is the 'Look at this! Look at that: A Tribute to Dr Seuss' exhibition'. The show runs until the 24th March and features 35 artists reinterpreting and paying tribute to the great Seuss himself. My submission is an edition of 10 prints, 3 of which will be available at the exhibition, and is titled 'A Hat on a Cat'.
Just before Christmas I was asked by the kind folk at Gosh! to design a poster for them..... here it is! The image is based on an old Jack Kirby monster called Goom. Gosh! is a very awesome comic shop in Soho, London and I positively implore you to go visit.
TPost is a wearable magazine where the article is written on the inside and the graphic interpretation is on the outside. This issue of TPost was about American political satirist, Stephen Colbert so the illustration is based on a mock Presidential campaign. It was a real pleasure to work with TPost and the job became much more of a collaboration as Giuliano and I batted the design back and forth. I'm really pleased with the results and I had a great time working on this. Thanks to the TPost gang and the very beautiful model for making this T-Shirt a success. Check out the T-Shirt and their website HERE.
Oh... and here is the promo video that TPost asked me to make to help promote my design.
When Opera Louise approached me to draw a 'phantasmal gadwall' I knew this was going to be a really fun job. You can listen to snippets of the album from Le Canard Chipeau's website HERE. It's mighty impressive. 
I loved working on this job it was really engaging and fun. The issue is themed around timepieces so the art director asked me to illustrate the watchfaces and cogs deconstructing and reconstructing in a similar way to one of my images for the MASKS exhibition. Check out the amazing past Brummell covers HERE. I am very proud to be among such a great selection of illustrators.
Just in time for Christmas! This new 3 colour Astro Cat wrapping paper is now available from Nobrow. Click HERE to purchase some!
Come to 'Ghost Of Gone Birds', London this Saturday (19th November) at 1pm to see the last colour of a new edition of the Bishop's 'o'o being printed live. I'll be signing these beauties as they fly of the screen printing beds. Come along it'll be great and the show is awesome so if you haven't see it yet then hurry up and come along.
