Artwork unveiled at National Museum in Cardiff

Last month saw the unveiling of my sculpture at the National Museum in Cardiff.

“The artwork commissioned by Cardiff Business Club, and donated to the Museum, is a sessile oak growing out of a Cardiff business directory from the year 1913.

“Why the sessile oak? It is the national tree of Wales and is an appropriate choice as a symbol of strength and growth and survival.

“The main trunk of this structure sprouts from the location of City Hall, founded in 1913 and roots of the tree follow the routes of railway lines around Cardiff.

“As you’d expect the branches spread and reach upwards and that is a suitably optimistic representation of the growth and new beginnings.

Read more about the commission https://www.cardiffbusinessclub.org/news/93/0/club-donates-artwork-to-national-museum-wales

Upcoming Workshop at Muchado Bookshop in East Sussex

Saturday 13th October, 10.30am-3.30pm

Alfriston, nr Lewes, East Sussex

To make a booking, go to 

https://www.muchadobooks.com/su-blackwell-workshop.php

New! 2019 Wall Calendar

This 2019 calendar features high quality digital prints thoughtfully selected for each month, printed on a thick quality matte card. 

 Dates have ample space around them to write your events and birthdays.

The Calendar is white wire bound, measuring 325mm x 235mm when folded, 

and 325mm x 460mm when open.

Calendars are available now on my online shop 'click here'

Priced at £10.00

New Work

'A Gentle Madness' is my most recent commission for a bibliophile and collector of rare, out of print 

Penguin Classics. 

Over the course of several weeks, Emma and I worked on hundreds of replica books in miniature., before setting them in a library, on shelves made from the pages of a book about 'book collecting'.

Photograph by John Reynolds 

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/

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