Ypsigrock Festival is the largest outdoor music festival in Sicily and a reference point for all fans of indie culture. The difference Ypsigrock is grabbing all the more attractive sides of a music festival with an irresistible scenario. It’s like going back in time, the big stage at the foot of the stunning castle and all around the medieval town of Castelbuono crowded by thousands of spectators. Andrew Holder was asked to create an image for the 2012 festival poster and all related media.
James Dawe and Pomme Chan have both been selected to feature in the upcoming show T.E.A.M. (Together Everyone Achieves More) Instrumented by Melvin Galapon, the show focuses on collaboration with the aim of creating something unusual. The pieces will be featured on a range of silk scarves, cushions, handkerchiefs and prints, displayed alongside the originals at the show. The exhibition runs from Thursday 16th August to Saturday 1st September at London's Kemistry Gallery.
Four Pocko artists have been chosen to be included in an upcoming charity auction at Fallon, London. A Family Affair are a creative trio fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support. To raise more awareness and money for the project, they have asking members of their extended family and friends to donate their visual skills and produce a piece of artwork on the theme of bikes and family. Paul Bower, Eduardo Recife, James Dawe and Kinpro will all be included in the print exhibition and auction on May 17th. Prints will be available through their blog as well.
Ben Newman had the great honour of being asked to exhibit and give a guest talk at Berlin's Pictoplasma. He had exhibited an updated version of "Masks" show as part of the festival's 'Character Walk' that takes place through the Mitte district in 16 different venues. New collaboration work with creature creator Felt Mistress, and his father Colin Newman, were the main features of the show. Ben's sold-out talk at .HBC was jam-packed of professionals and enthusiasts alike. Ben's entertaining talk explored the wider context and possibilities of his character creation.
Ben Newman has been included for the second year running in the fantastic exhibition Ghosts of Gone Birds. The exhibition takes place at the Rochelle School in London, and highlights the problem of dwindling bird numbers based on extinct species - featuring a host of stellar names contributing amazing renderings of feathered-friends that have died out. Our rising star exhibits with the likes of Ralph Steadman, Sir Peter Blake and Polly Morgan in this stupendously entertaining show with a moral core to boot. It runs until November 23rd, so please have a look if you get the chance.
Simen Johan's latest solo show "Until the Kingdom Comes" opened at NYC's Yosi Milo Gallery recently. Johan's ongoing project depicts an unsettling natural world hovering between reality, fantasy and nightmare, where he merges traditional photographic and sculptural techniques with digital methods. Having originally photographed a variety of plants and animals in natural preserves, zoos, farms, museum dioramas or his own studio, the artist then resituates them digitally into new environments constructed from images photographed elsewhere. Have a look at his updated portfolio here
