Laura Wellington

Laura Wellington is a designer that loves colour, pattern and shape.

Laura created the Totem lights whilst designing the Sheaf St Cafeteria bar. She wanted each light to have its own character and style and for the viewer to have a favourite, least favourite or multiple favourites. 

Tasked to create a light that combined shape, colour, pattern and a choice to build your own was what inspired her.

Fun Makes Good

Fun Makes Good’s distinctive homewares bring joy to a space through an exuberant mix of pattern, texture and colour. 

The playful designs combine a love for geometric shapes with a contemporary colour palette and dynamic composition.

In addition to producing the signature range of homeware Fun Make Good have collaborated and worked with a range of clients from retailers to architects and cultural trusts including The Barbican, Made.com, Wahaca, The Touring Network and Culture Perth & Kinross, to produce a body of commissions ranging from limited edition products, large scale curtains and hangings to murals and public art pieces. 

https://www.funmakesgood.co.uk/

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/FunMakesGood?ref=l2-shopheader-name

Lubaina Himid talking about patterns on Mary Anne Hobbs Radio 6 Music

I really enjoyed listening to Turner Prize nominee, Lubaina Himid talk about patterns in her paintings.

She was speaking to Mary Anne Hobbs as part of Mary Anne's Radio 6 Music episodes about The Turner Prize. Interviews with the other nominees are also featured.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09g0qf1

The Hepworth Wakefield Christmas Market

At the weekend I visited The Hepworth Wakefield Christmas Market.

With over 80 stands, there was a good mix of craft and homeware stalls selling prints, ceramics, stationery, knitwear, jewellery, candles, homeware, food and drink and much more.



Here are a few of my highlights


Bobbie Print

https://www.bobbieprint.com/collections/all

Ding Ding Design

https://www.dingdingdesign.com/

Fun Makes Good

https://www.funmakesgood.co.uk/painted-doors/


Geo-Fleur
http://www.geo-fleur.com/shop/



http://www.geo-fleur.com/shop/



http://www.geo-fleur.com/shop/



Hash Tag House

https://www.hashtaghouse.co.uk/collections/printed-1



Hilary Grant

https://hilarygrant.co.uk/


Katy and Josephine

https://www.etsy.com/shop/kateyandjosephine



Laura Slater

http://www.lauraslater.co.uk/




http://www.lauraslater.co.uk/



Red Paper House
http://redpaperhouse.com/


http://redpaperhouse.com/

Laura Wellington

http://www.laurawellington.co.uk/

Jill Shaddock Ceramics

http://www.jillshaddock.co.uk/

Laura Wellington

http://www.laurawellington.co.uk/blog/

Simon Morris - Pause paintings

Artist Simon Morris is interested in geometric abstraction. This covers object based paintings, installations and collaborations with other people. Within the context of the paintings, it allows him to think about how to make a geometric image in a way that allows him some opportunity to set the parameters of what these paintings are going to be but also let him make a painting where a system or formula helped him make decisions about what to do next.



He enjoys the unpredictable nature of this way of working. He uses black because it is a reductionist colour and focuses the attention on the pattern as opposed to the colours. I also enjoy working in this way - perhaps because I feel confident that I know that I am producing something even if I do not know what I am producing! Getting a balance between chaos and control is the challenge.



Pause 4.5 (2006) and Pause 5.5 (2006), are part of an ongoing series of paintings that have been produced by following a mathematical system.

Carnovsky

Carnovsky is a Milan based art and design duo currently engaged in an project called RGB.

RGB experiments with the interaction between printed and light colours. Images are produced in layers and when a coloured filter (a light or a transparent material) is applied it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed.

The filter's colors are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three layers.The resulting images are unexpected and disorienting. The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear.

By applying this to different surfaces and in different contexts, Carnovsky create installations and exhibitions, wallpaper, scarves and skins for phones.


                             




This makes me think about why some dyslexic people (me included) find it easier to read black text on a coloured surface



ZIGZAGGING

Site specific installation with Luca Missoni, Milan Design Week 2013

https://youtu.be/yNItCaE18rE









To find out more, click on the links below

https://www.nuvango.com/collections/carnovsky

https://vimeo.com/151313467

The Power of Words in Art by Mark Titchner

Each year, Mary Anne Hobbs’ hosts the BBC Radio 6 Music annual art weekender, Art Is Everywhere. While listening to the radio programmes, listeners are encouraged to take inspiration from the words or the music and create an original piece of art which they then share online.

This year Art is Everywhere will be happening on Saturday 2 December and Sunday 3 December. The Saturday show will be broadcast live from Ferens Gallery in Hull, tying in directly with the 2017 Turner Prize.

In the run up to the launch of Art Is Everywhere, artist Mark Titchner talked to Mary Anne Hobbs about the power of words in art, particularly in public spaces.

Titchner's work utilises song lyrics, and words from creeds, treatises and political manifestos to explore different belief systems, and the way in which we 'receive thought and ideas'.

The artist reflects on how he first became interested in art using text, and recognises that the numerous notebooks that he filled with words were probably the starting point for him making work with words.

He is interested in the voice - how we share information, who gets to speak, who we listen to, where they are placed in the world. The majority of his work exists outside of the gallery, in the public sphere.

He began using text that he found, for example song lyrics or lines from books. His main concern was that the material had the potential to engage anyone.



One of his artworks, 'What I want more than anything else' involved Titchner talking to young people, aged 13-25, from across Hull, Burnley and Wigan. They were asked "What would you like more than anything else." Their handwritten responses were enlarged and made into banners, flags, murals, hidden bookmarks and on video screens that were displayed in the public. Each artwork was titled with the name of the individual who responded to the question.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ng4x4

Cameraless Film-Making Workshop: Direct Animation and Collage with Hands on Film Lab

At the weekend I participated in one of the workshops ran by Hands on Film lab at The NewBridge Project. The workshop was to discover and explore the most immediate and satisfying of film-making techniques. Hand made footage, with no camera required! We used found footage, paints and various mark-making techniques to make a collaborative film on 16mm using the process of direct animation. We each made short film loops, and projected them. 

They will now be edited together to create a collective animation to be screened at Hands on Film's next evening screening: 

THE EXPERIMENTAL FRAME (December 14th, The Newbridge Project).https://www.facebook.com/events/487452228302642/

 

I experimented with various means of creating images; I made one film on clear film with leaves and petals. 

I was amazed how much detail of the veins can be seen in the animation.

Another length of clear film was drawn onto with various marks and colours, transparencies were cut and stuck on, and holes were made in the film. This was spliced with another film where I scratched into black film, and added coloured transparencies and inks. I used the hole punch to create circles in the film, and inserted coloured transparencies into some of the circles.

This little introduction has given me lots of ideas about ways that I can incorporate this method of working into my practice. Watch this space!