Tunnel Book Workshop at Birkbeck University

I led a workshop earlier in the week at Birkbeck University in London 

as part of their Arts Week Event. 

In this 2 hr workshop, complete novices to paper-cutting 

created a simple tunnel book using templates that I designed.  

Below are some of the outcomes. 

SBS Australia put this short film together using stills from my instagram @sublackwellstudio

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Hide London

Hide London is a fantastic new restaurant, opening in Mayfair this week,
the brainchild of acclaimed chef 'Ollie Dabbous'.

I was approached by the interior designer 'Rose Murray' of These White Walls Studio in December to be involved in the project.
My brief was to create a large paper book art sculpture in a particular private dining room in Hide, called The Reading Room'.
The resulting book installation took 3 months to create, and photographer 'John Reynolds' was on site to capture us installing it. 

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To see images of the finished sculpture, go to www.sublackwell.co.uk/set-design/

Hide 
hide_restaurant
www.hide.co.uk

TheseWhiteWalls 

www.thesewhitewalls.com

New Project

Hide London

New Post Coming Soon

to be cont'd.

The Second Skin Exhibition Opens at Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany

The Second Skin 

Opens at Museum Schloss Moyland

Bedburg-Hau, Germany 

4th Febraury 2018 - 27th May 2018 

The Grass Grows Between Her Toes.

While you were Sleeping 2004

By way of twenty different artistic approaches in the media of photography, sculpture and installation, the forthcoming exhibition explores the phenomenon of the “second skin” as a means of insulation against nature or as a way of bringing oneself even closer to it. What stories, for example, can articles of clothing narrate? Can we discard our past like an item of clothing? And what is it like to be clothed in just one's own skin?  

Besides such questions as these, the exhibition will also deal with artistic media and their force of expression.

For more information, visit

https://www.moyland.de/en/exhibitions/zweite-haut.html

Last Chance to See - 'Book Worlds' Exhibition at Museum Sinclair Haus Germany

Closes 4th February 2018

Contemporary artists whose works reflect nature and landscape keep returning to books and typography as a form of expression. Pages of script or stacks of books are used to compose landscapes, and natural materials serve to create book objects. Written myths of the creation of the world and human beings, herbariums and herbal books, poetry anthologies and lexical collections all try to grasp the phenomena of our natural world. The book as a medium with all its haptic qualities, and script as a manner of expression with many possibilities, have been taken up by many visual artists – especially in the context of the great subject of “nature”. At the same time, the destructive confluence of fire and books is reflected by contemporary artists. 

With this exhibition the Museum Sinclair-Haus turns into a universal library where very different artistic means of expression find a home.  

Visit Musuem Sinclair Haus Homepage

Follow the Art Trail in Ormskirk Town Centre

A Festival of Tales is taking place in the small Lancashire market town of Ormskirk. 

Situated between Manchester and Liverpool, Ormskirk has a heritage of clock making, 

which has all but disappeard now.

The specially commissioned art-works on display around the town pay homage to it's clock-making history, and to the formidable clock tower, which has stood in the very centre of the town since 1876.

 Discover all of the art works (including my own), which feature Ormskirk's famous clock tower, situated around the town in shop windows, cafes and at the Chapel art gallery. 

Festival of Tales is open until January 2018

http://chapelgallery.org.uk/festival-of-tales/

Photographs by John Baxter