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Words of Wisdom
Words of Wisdom aka WOW – is an initiative of the Enquiry Desk a not-for-profit initiative founded by Josie Sullens and Zara Wood. The idea is that creative professionals share some of their words of wisdom for others. I was honoured to contribute following an invitation by Zara Wood aka Woody. See my page here: with…
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Sanez and Kawamo for Wahaca at One New Change
Each art project working with Wahaca becomes my favourite one and the same is the case for this one recently completed at One New Change, St. Pauls, London. The place was a blank canvas with no particular history to the site but it did allow for space to create a huge mural across the length…
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Daniel Melim at Wahaca Islington
It’s been a busy year. Particularly with my on-going artist liaison work for Wahaca – finally it’s time to take stock of all the projects completed so far starting with… Daniel Melim at Wahaca Islington. Earlier in the year we invited Brazilian artist Daniel Melim to create murals inside and out at Wahaca’s Southbank Experiment…
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Daora CD Design
Having been a fan of Brazilian music for some decades now it has been a pleasure to work with the Mais Um Discos label recently. In their own words – Mais Um Discos releases music from Brazilian artists who fuse styles, disregard genres and irritate purists and while Gilles Peterson says – “What Mais Um Discos is doing in…
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Visualog – iPhone covers
Sometime ago I wrote a piece for Varoom magazine about Brazilian illustration which identified current trends and talents coming from this vibrant scene. So it was a pleasure recently to work with a new company called Visualog from Japan to create a series of iPhone covers called Braziliance! using Brazilian artists. The artists we chose…
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Daniel Melim at Wahaca Southbank experiment
Last year it was a pleasure to begin working with Wahaca, purveyors of Mexican street food who are full of innovative ideas. My work with them is in a curation role, by introducing to them interesting street artists from around the world and matching the right artist to a particular space or project. This can…
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Manguetown Graffiti & Brazilian Street Art
I’m taking part in this talk soon (see blurb below) looking forward to finally meeting Derlon, although I’ve been following his career this will be a first meeting! The Embassy of Brazil in London, in collaboration with Instituto BR, proudly presents a round table discussion on Manguetown Grafitti & Brazilian Street Art. The panellists, Derlon…
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Zine-making workshop residency
It is now the end of an enjoyable four months spent leading zine-making workshops at the De La Warr Pavillion in Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex. During this period there were five workshops, open to the public on various Saturdays, where I and my assistant Marian guided participants of all ages to make their own…
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Cheltenham Design Festival
I am pleased to announce my inclusion as a guest speaker at the Cheltenham Design Festival amongst the great and the good including British design gurus Adrian Shaughnessy and Neville Brody. There’s plenty going on over five days starting from Thursday 11th April through to Sunday 14th April – my own talk is bright and early…
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Maurizio Cattelan and Georg Baselitz
Maurizio Cattelan and Georg Baselitz are two extraordinary and radical contemporary artists who I have long had a fascination with so I was pleased to be asked to recently to contribute articles about them for the latest issue (37)of Huck Magazine which is on the shelves now… Issue 37 was curated by famed artist/skateboarder – Mark Gonzales. He…