Amelia’s Magazine | Lynn Hatzius – A Journey into Printed Matter

Category: Art

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Lynn Hatzius is an illustrator, collage artist and printmaker living in London. Her work crosses boundaries of fine and applied art with regular commissions of commercial illustration alternating with personal self initiated projects. She designs book covers for a variety of publishers and her illustrations have appeared in various magazines and newspapers as well as on album covers. Lynn Hatzius completed an MA in Printmaking at the London Print Studio, where she continues to explore traditional printmaking techniques to translate her imagery into printed form. She regularly exhibits and sells her work in London and elsewhere.

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By The Sea (2013) Paper Collage

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Patience I (2012) Vintage postcard, Paper Collage

A Journey into Printed Matter is the title of Lynn Hatzius's latest solo show, which will bring together a selection of her collages and prints. The venue is Firefly, a small second hand book shop on the corner of Chatsworth Road and Glenarm Road in East London. This place is the perfect setting to show some of Lynn's more delicate collage pieces, which themselves include elements chosen and extracted from old books. For her the images on dusty pages open up endless possibilities for new compositions, which reveal hidden meanings and unexpected ideas. She is in constant search for new material to add to her vast collection of printed matter, so the surroundings are a source of inspiration as well as a backdrop to her work.
For more details see the First Thursdays website.

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Stillness (2013) Paper Collage

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Derailed (2014) Paper Collage

Shop opening times: Thursday-Saturday 10AM-6PM, Sunday 10AM-5PM

Amelia’s Magazine | Atomica Gallery presents HOME SWEET HOME

Category: Art

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Nicholas Stevenson, Bear fight.

Home Sweet Home is a exhibition of new paintings at Atomica Gallery from Art Brut enthusiast Angela Dalinger and young British illustrator and artist Nicholas Stevenson. Offering viewers a snatched glimpse into a series of imaginary homes, both artists indulge in depicting domestic voyeurism which treads a thin line between the whimsical and the worrying. As we trespass through these residences, we may encounter anything from illegal pets to resident ghosts and wizard’s gardens.

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Nicholas Stevenson, Psychic interior.

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Angela Dalinger, Psychic exterior.

Indulging our curious natures, the paintings in Home Sweet Home portray private moments in which viewers may pass unnoticed and draw their own conclusions. Often the paintings will be in direct communication with each other, both artists offering an alternative view point of the same scene, other times the dialogue between the paintings will be more covert.

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Nicholas Stevenson, Kitchen ghost.

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Angela Dalinger, Dead giant

Hailing from a small village on the edge of Hamburg, Germany, Angela Dalinger's seemingly naive style is absent of current cultural or artistic influences, something her relative isolation no doubt has a hand in. Nicholas Stevenson is an illustrator, artist and musician currently based in North London whose chalky gouache paintings have appeared in the likes of The New York Times and the cover of Belly Kids book, Thrill Murray. The two artists have been virtual friends for some time, but will meet for the first time at the Home Sweet Home opening!

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Nicholas Stevenson, Bug problems.

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Angela Dalinger, Swansea noble.

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Angela Dalinger, Bed.

Opening times: Mon-Fri: 11am – 7pm, Sat: 12pm – 5pm, Sun: 12 – 4pm
Opening reception: Thursday 14th August, 6-9pm

Amelia’s Magazine | Ellie Foreman-Peck Solo Show

Category: Art

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Ellie Foreman-Peck will be showcasing a series of limited edition prints that focus on Japan's influence on advertising art in Western Europe during the 19th Century. Azuri-E is the term given to Japanese prints predominantly printed in blue.

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Ellie Foreman-Peck works as an illustrator from her studio in East London creating portraits and editorials for a wide range of clients including GQ, The Telegraph and CBBC. To see more of her work please go to www.elliefp.co.uk

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Opening times: 8:00 am – 12:00 am. Private View: 24th July from 6pm.

Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Illustration Gallery Summer Show 2014

Category: Art

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Stevie Wonder by Richard Bernstein for Interview, June 1986. Photo (Albert Watson), pastel, pencil, airbrush and collage on foam board.

As part of the FIG Summer Show the Fashion Illustration Gallery presents a collection of works created by artist illustrator Richard Bernstein (1939 – 2002) for the cover of Andy Warhol's infamous Interview magazine.

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Aretha Franklin by Richard Bernstein for Interview, December 1986. Photo (Albert Watson), charcoal, pastel, pencil, airbrush and collage on foam board.

Bernstein made the up-and-coming celebrities of the 70s and 80s such as Sylvester Stallone, Mick Jagger, Diane Lane, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Susan Sarandon et al, look sleek, sexy, glamorous and forever young. The covers were designed in such a way that people would think that Andy Warhol had made them because Andy’s signature was printed above the masthead. Interview became iconic and Warhol would autograph the covers of fans’ copies, never disabusing them of the notion he had done the covers himself but Richard never signed a cover and Andy never made one himself.

It is estimated that Bernstein made 120 actual portrait painting covers for Interview (starting 1972) and very few are outside the control of the estate. The group at FIG are brilliant examples including portraits of Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger and Stevie Wonder.

Opening times: 11am – 6pm. (Closed Sunday 10th & 17th)

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Mick Jagger by Richard Bernstein for Interview, February 1985. Photo (Albert Watson), pastel, pencil, airbrush and collage on foam board.

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Diane Keaton by Richard Bernstein for Interview, January 1987. Photo (Herb Ritts), pastel, pencil, airbrush and collage on foam board.

Amelia’s Magazine | Emberfest 2014 in Devon

Category: Earth

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Relax in comfort at Embercombe, which is a community set in a beautiful valley in the heart of Devon, with views over the Dartmoor National Park. Find out more about the location of Emberfest here. At this small family centred festival you will learn how to pickle, preserve, forage and ferment, bread bake and make fruit wine! Visitors will stay in cosy yurts, eat delicious food fresh from the garden, opt in to a range of food related workshops and enjoy all the wild resources that Embercombe has to offer, including lake swimming, woodland walks and a fabulous children's play area. Find out more details and book your place here.

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Emberfest sunset

Amelia’s Magazine | Camberwell MA Illustration Final Show 2014

Category: Art

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The MA Illustration Final Show at Camberwell College of the Arts promises to delight, amaze and intrigue. On show this year is the work from 48 graduating artists, alongside a selection of pieces by part-time students completing their first year of work.

This year’s show explores a wide variety of contemporary illustration practice, including picture books, comics, and works created for a variety textiles. The show takes place as part of the larger Postgraduate Final Show at Camberwell, featuring work from students in Printmaking, Designer-Maker, Fine Art Digital and Book Arts as well as Illustration. For more information and a preview of some of the work being exhibited, check out the website here. Here is a selection of work from some of the graduating artists:

Fay Huo
Fay Huo is a London-based Chinese illustrator and pattern designer. Inspired by her childhood and philosophy, Fay likes to create dreamy and uncanny works which invite the viewers to enjoy the details as well as her wildest imagination. She has worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for companies/ organization in Hong Kong, Bulgaria and United Kingdom. Her illustrations have been selected to show in the MTV Young at Art exhibition and the D&AD New Blood 2013, and her work caught my eye at the graduate shows last year. The concept of her MA project is Trap.

Emily Nash
Emily Nash makes work that is primarily narrative based, taking inspiration from fictional stories, folk tales and current affairs. She uses collage and mixed media to create other-worldly characters and settings. Patterns, textures and found ephemera are built upon to create layered and playful imagery.

Jady Ong
Jady Ong was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, and graduated with an undergraduate degree in Animation from Dong Hua University, Shanghai in 2012. She is currently studying MA Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts.

Marja de Sanctis
Marja de Sanctis is a Brazilian visual artist and illustrator. She lived between Brazil and Italy and is now based in London. She is addicted to vibrant colours and enjoys making images using mixed media. Marja’s work is informed by a curiosity for human stories, romantic songs and relationships’ podcasts that she seeks to represent through the use of metaphor and symbolism.

Marina Muun
Marina Muun is an illustrator working and living in London, whose work is a delicate synthesis of the digital with more traditional media. She has worked on various projects including editorial, fashion and packaging. Her illustrations was selected for D&AD New Blood 2013 and she has recently been shortlisted for the AOI Awards. Her latest work is centred around perception of external stimuli and the ability to match visions and experiences to a deeper knowledge within. We are lucky enough to have had her contributions on the website.

Augusta Akerman
Augusta Akerman is a freelance Illustrator and surface pattern designer currently living and working in London. After Graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 2008, she has previously worked as a Set Decorator for film and advertising before studying for an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Art in 2013. Her work is primarily narrative based combining a classic illustrative style with a looser abstract sense of design. She has recently begun working with textiles transferring her illustrations to silk and cotton, exploring repeating patterns that also lend themselves to wallpaper design.

Private View: 15th July, 6pm
Opening Times: 10am — 8pm, not open on Sunday

Amelia’s Magazine | Wanderings Art and Illustration Show

Category: Art

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Illustration By Rosa and Carlotta Crepax, Illustrated Moodboard.

Exploring boundaries between cities, cultures and institutions, laced together through the poetics of space, Wanderings documents the varying approaches to city life of a select group of emerging international artists. The emerging talent of London’s promising contemporary art scene meets Latin American artists quenching their wanderlust on new shores, and a team of Italian twins welding together art and fashion. This exhibition is the brainchild of a collective of Goldsmiths based curators, entrepreneurs and artists.

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Illustration by Jennifer Pitchers, ELX Art.

Exhibiting artists include: Alberto Borea, Rosa & Carlotta Crepax, William Goldsmith, Edi Hirose, Jennifer Matignas Pitchers, Johnatan Molina Arroyo, Josè Vera Matos and Jacob Wolff.

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Artwork by Rosa and Carlotta Crepax, Illustrated Moodboard.

Wanderings is curated by Hannah Thorne and produced by ELX Art and Amelia's Magazine contributors Illustrated Moodboard, with support from Galería Lucia de la Puente.

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Artwork by Alberto Borea.

Select Artist bios:

ALBERTO BOREA was born in Lima, Peru in 1979. His work has been exhibited in several solo shows, as well as group shows in Latin America, Europe and the U.S. He lives and works between New York and Lima and is represented by Galería Lucia de la Puente.

ROSA & CARLOTTA CREPAX are twin sisters from Milan and London based visual artists. Their work is influenced by fashion and fashion photography. They use a wide range of media to create elegant, colourful and whimsical interpretations of style, contemporary life and culture. Their work aims to address questions of equality, diversity, inclusion and exclusion in relation to gender and sexuality. Their work has been featured in the pages of publications worldwide including Vogue Italia, Glamour, Grazia, Amica, Io Donna, La Repubblica, and Il Corriere della Sera. They have collaborated with a series of brands including Trussardi, Absolut Vodka, Tia Maria, and Pinco Pallino. They live and work in London.

JENNIFER MATIGNAS PITCHERS studied illustration at Camberwell College of Arts and lives and works in London. Born in 1985 to British and Filipino parents, her personal work focuses on identity, belonging and a sense of place. Often linear in style, she explores traditional ink techniques and experiments with etching and relief printing. Her work for Wanderings is inspired by her native Whitechapel. She has previously worked in collaboration with fashion designer Coco Fennell and Samsung, and many years ago worked at Amelia's Magazine. She is currently the Artist in Residence at the Gate Theatre, a role supported by the Chelsea Arts Club Trust. Jennifer is represented by ELX Art.

PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday 17th 6-11pm
OPENING TIMES: Friday 18th – 10am-10pm, Saturday 19th – 10am-10pm, Sunday 20th – 10am-4pm

Amelia’s Magazine | Starry Skies Family Camp 2014

Category: Earth

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Fancy a festival with a difference? Then Starry Skies could be for you… part festival, part camp, this event promises a plethora of family friendly activities in the great outdoors. Expect to learn with forest school, take wild walks in the woods, make nature art, star gaze into the night, sing around the campfire and have fun playing in the woodland playground. Starry Skies has been designed to make the most of the picturesque setting at Barton Hill Farm in the beautiful Brecon Beacons, allowing children the freedom to explore the great outdoors as they often can't at home.

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Starry Skies is brought to you by the folks who run Shambala Festival (read our review of Shambala in 2010 here) and I love the ethos behind the camp – that parents often don't have as much fun when they attend festivals with the little ones, and long to go on a holiday where they can relax too. There is even a dedicated Toddler Tent, it doesn't get much better than that!

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There will also be entertainment in the form of music from the likes of Lori Campbell, Nuala Honan and Me and My Friends. And of course there will be plenty of other options for the adults, such as yoga, walking adventures, extreme days out and Buddhist chanting.

There is only room for 250 families so expect a very friendly environment with a strong communal spirit. You could be in with a chance to win a family ticket, by suggesting your favourite campfire song here.

Amelia’s Magazine | Delaine Le Bas and Tara Darby: Portait of the Artist

Category: Art

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Delaine Le Bas first met artist/photographer Tara Darby at the Transition Gallery during her solo show Room in 2005. Tara along with Alex Michon and Cathy Lomax at Transition, became one of her ‘comrades’ as she calls them. 'To be an Artist you need these comrades,' she says 'We are not with each other all the time but as soon as we are it is like the time in between just disappears. Our minds and ways of working are linked in a way that cannot not be defined. We always pick up where we left.' The exhibition is something of a homecoming, after all the collaborations and all the activism which is always implicit in her practice she wanted to work with people she could trust on an exhibition which was more personal and where she could explore facets of her own quixotic persona.
 
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Thus with Tara Darby she has created a performative series of photographs. Her relationship with the gallery, shared interests in clothes and music and particularly a punk sensibility were central to this as she says, 'Keeping it real to me is what it is and will always be about. The artists who run Transition get this, Tara gets this. It's not about being fashionable even though the irony is that that is where I started, on a Fashion and Textiles MA at St Martins 1986 – 1988. Through music and clothing I could truly be me. It was not about attracting the opposite sex, it was about identity and forming that identity for myself. I brought magazines when I could, and music papers. I dressed up in a mish mash, crossing what I saw with the old musicals I watched with my Nan and Great Uncle, with Jumble sale finds and old clothing my Mum had. Even before Dennis Potter I dreamed of people 'singing in the rain' and breaking into song instead of speaking, dressed in fantastic outfits that had the glamour of the films and energy of Polystyrene.'
 
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In the lead up to the show Delaine and Alex Michon (who have collaborated on a special publication for the show entitled Sister and Comrade) were both reading Viv Albertine’s recently published memoir Girls Girls Girls, Music Music, Music, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Much of the inspirational spirit of punk and especially the girls in punk lie behind this immersive show which also includes paintings, music and film. So often the media want to put Delaine in the box marked 'exotic Romany' as she herself says 'In the series of portraits with the Kabuki make up I wanted to play with who and what I am. I was taught to do the make up by my old friend Suzi Skelton from Worthing, she was part of the Kemp company. I have much to thank her for regarding how the make up works and what you can do with it. Life is not black and white, as human beings we are complex and multi faceted creatures, we are not flat pieces of paper but living three dimensional objects moving in space. As a child, I grew with music blasting in my head and with clothing and make up I realised that you could be whoever you wanted to be and the best thing to do was not to give a fuck no matter what anyone else said or tried to impose upon you. Free spirit, comrade, sister, Portrait Of An Artist is about keeping it real, for yourself and always remaining true to who you want to be no matter how the rest of the world tries to confine and restrict you in the words of Polystyrene “Oh Bondage Up Yours!!'

Opening times: Fri-Sun 12-6pm

Amelia’s Magazine | londonprintstudio 2014 Members Summer Exhibition

Category: Art

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Lynn Hatzius, Balance I (Green Portrait Series).

londonprintstudio launches its annual Summer Members show today with an exhibition of beautiful prints produced in the studio by established and emerging artists. The exhibition is an opportunity to see the range of prints produced in the studio by artists working in varied styles and with different techniques, from lithographs, etchings and woodcuts to screen prints. Studio membership is very varied with many younger printmakers working alongside well established names, using the full range of printmaking equipment which makes the studio one of the most comprehensively equipped artist’s workspaces in London. Some work in the exhibition has been created through the use of highly experimental techniques. The works on display reflect the sense of enquiry and exploration characteristic of the work of many of our members, and this approach is strongly supported and encouraged by the studio and its technicians.

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Margaret Ashman, Lifted III.

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Aga Tamiola, The Silent Keepers.

The prints were selected by Gill Saunders, Senior Curator of Prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The final show was selected from over 80 submissions, many more than submitted last year. John Phillips, Director of londonprintstudio said ‘We saw a great deal of high quality work among the submissions, and this is a focussed and attractive exhibition. There is an impressive range of work produced by artists in the studio. We were very pleased to receive so many submissions, not all of which could be included.'

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Farina Alam, Dance of the Taliban.

The artists showing work in the exhibition are: Farina Alam, Jim Anderson, Margaret Ashman, Jacki Biddulph, Alice Valentina Biga, Emily Bornoff, Alex Brady, Colin Burns, Michelle Dow, Lauren Fynn, Clare Grossman, Lynn Hatzius, Adam Herbert, Jennifer Jokhoo, Catriona Leahy, Marianne Keating, John Macaulay, Tim Major, Janet Milner, Tom Moore, Ralph Overill, Sumi Perera, John Phillips, Rennie Pilgrem, Nicola Arkell Reed, David Studwell, Chisato Tamabayashi, Aga Tamiola, Katherine Van Uytrecht, and Claire Weinstock.

Opening Party: 26th June 2014 – 6.30 – 5.30pm
Opening Times: Tuesday to Saturday – 10.30am -5.30pm