Self Portrait 1 (2013)

Plaster cast, expanding foam, duct tape, photocopied mono-prints.

Taking advantage of the public platform, a piece was created that would actively engage with passers by. With a heavy emphasis on process, the sculptural elements combined with the hand made marks of the mono prints appear seductively tactile, yet out of reach. Devoid of text, the abstracted lines swallowing the figure are left open to interpretation.

Thanks to Sophie Farrar, David Atkinson, Nick Chaffe and Daniel Jones for their tremendous help.


Bio:

Jon Bland is a designer, artist and curator working at Manchester studio, Music. Since joining Music in 2012, Jon has worked for London Fashion Week, Leeds Print Festival, the British Fashion Awards, London Collections, Manchester City FC and ‘The office is dead’ for Property Alliance. Jon is currently curating the self initiated project ‘No Fly Posters’, which he plans to culminate in a retrospective book.

noflyposters.com

Si Scott - A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Si has been illustrating his beautiful craft for some time now.  I remember his work from a couple of years ago. Si hosted an exhibition of limited edition posters created for local charity Forever Manchester.

Each print used a line from a long list of Manchester bands including The Buzzcocks, Elbow, Oasis, The Stone Roses, The Fall, Doves and Joy Division. The typeface of the series was specifically created by Si for the series.  His distinctive and ornate, hand drawn, illustrated typography is what drew me to find out more.  

Micah Purnell

BIO:

Since being established in 2006 Si Scott has built himself a solid reputation, providing unique creative concepts and imagery for a prestigious and ever growing client list. Widely inspired by his love of music, his flowing designs combine a clever mix of intuitive rush and calculated precision, where minimalism meets complexity in a timeless, yet contemporary fashion.

Si Scott’s original hand-drawn designs have been in great demand all around the world for a wide array of projects in an ongoing visual adventure: Ad campaigns, branding, publishing, editorial, products, interior design, album covers. Multidisciplinary, Si touches everything from type to illustration, graphic design, and three-dimensional creation. His thirst for continuously bringing his art to new levels, and for making design breathe in different ways have led him to an incursion into the worlds of paper cutting and tattooing.

Si Scott’s work stretches across art direction and creative consultation, to lectures and exhibitions; with global recognition from creative industries and institutions.

His work has been regularly awarded and featured in numerous publications, including being listed in the Best 200 Design Moments Ever by Computer Arts Magazine, and honoured twice in Luerzer’s Archive - The Best 200 Illustrators In The World

Si Scott Studio Ltd

Anywhere and Everywhere

www.siscottstudio.com

Build - Sunrise over Manchester 2013

This month we are pleased to welcome Michael Place from Build as our March Print and Paste contributor. I (Dave Sedgwick) first contacted Michael a few months back and asked if he would be interested in participating in P&P. His reaction was ‘Great, why not!’ - which is the perfect way to respond.

Having been a big admirer of Build’s and Michael’s work for a number of years, I was particularily interested to see what they would come up with, and I wasn’t disappointed.

Iconic, memorable and graphical striking. The poster is sure to raise a few smiles as well as hopefully bring back one or two memories for people. 

Thanks Michael and thank you also for being enthusiastic and interested. It’s extremely appreciated.

Dave Sedgwick

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‘Sunrise over Manchester’ combines two things I associate Manchester with, good music (Second Summer of Love era in particular ‘88-‘89) and Factory Records.

I wanted to do something simple, bold and graphic. The factory (as well as Factory Records) represents the industrial heritage of the area, coupled with the iconic smiley face rising behind.

When I was in college in Newcastle we used to buy all the records that came out in that amazing time. Madchester, The Haçienda (and the rave scene) were the words on everybody’s lips, the world’s attention was focussed securely on the North-west.

The Second Summer of Love was an exciting period in musical culture, with so much good ground-breaking music being made, I wanted to capture a small part of that in this piece…and what better place than Manchester itself for it to sit in.

— MCP/Build

Stan Chow/Dave Sedgwick - Frederich Engels

This month we are pleased to showcase one of Manchester’s best illustrators in Stan Chow. We wanted to work with Stan for some time and he has been very patient waiting for his month!

Stan explains below:

“After sitting down and chatting about what to illustrate, it was obvious to me that the location of the billboard had to influence what I illustrated.
I studied at MMU (which is literally around the corner) nearly 20 years ago. The thing I remember most from my years as a student was the anti-Capitalist demonstrations and rallies between the Student Union and the old BBC building. People selling copies of Socialist Worker and Living Marxism is something that will stay with me, purely because as an 18 year old it meant nothing, but on the same hand I was curious too. I was politically ignorant at the time, but I felt passion in their protestations.
Anyway this is why I decided to illustrate a portrait of Frederich Engels, him being one of the founders of Marxism alongside Karl Marx. Engels was sent to Manchester to work in his father’s mill when he was in his early 20’s and from what he witnessed whilst working in Manchester he wrote the book ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’

I’m by no means a socialist or Marxist, but I think subconsciously my disdain for the current government we are enduring under made me want to illustrate Engels, a man of great political importance, to show how I feel about the current state of affairs.
It was great to have collaborated with Dave Sedgwick (DesignbyDave) - who created the typography for the work and to be part of Print and Paste.”
Dave goes on to explain the type, “It’s been great to work with Stan, we met last year and talked about a number of options for the board. Stan really liked the idea of doing a portrait of Engels and I loved it! I wanted to create type that had a Germanic feel to it but also keep it quite structured. In the end I drew this and made all the angles 20 degrees - in refererence to Engels year of birth. I wanted it to be subtle and not detract from the image but also look as if it felt at home in the style of Stan’s work”

Where Is Home? - by Hannah Mosley

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This month’s Print and Paste is curated by me, Jim Ralley. Keen to showcase the work of local artists, I asked my pal Hannah to produce something for us. Check our some more of her work at http://hannahmosley.bigcartel.com

This is what she had to say:

“I’m am apprentice tattooist and illustrator. 
‘(w)here is home(?)” was inspired by temporarily moving in with my brilliant Mum after 9 years living in various house and flat shares, and also reaching a point in life where thoughts about setting up a homestead with your lover start rearing their head. What is home? Is it something elusive, or is it wherever you make it? Can it really encompass and protect everyone? Can one home really provide for those footloose, bindle-toting wanderers, and also for those who are solidly rooted in what’s gone before?

Maybe some people have too much wanderlust to ever settle, and others are too stuck in one spot to meet their future halfway. But maybe you can put down the bindle - maybe you can use the axe.

On a less navel-gazing note, lots have people have noted that the flaming shell (which I thought made a nice little visual symbol for the safety and sacredness of home) actually looks pretty gynic. (Look it up). Whoops.

I probably ended up with more questions than I started with after drawing this, but it was a lot of fun. It’s fantastic to be a part of P&P, and to see artists’ work getting such good exposure and becoming a daily part of city centre life.”

HITOTZUKI

This month we are pleased to present husband and wife team HITOTZUKI (Kami and Sasu). The couple, based in Tokyo, have been working on murals and installations since 1999. HITOTZUKI literally means ‘sun and moon’ in Japanese. Kami draws lines while Sasu makes symmetrical motifs directly by hand, depicting scenes relevant to their lives and emotions.

Having first seen their work via instagram I am pleased they have accepted my invitation to contribute their artwork to the streets of Manchester via our ‘Print and Paste’ billboard space near Oxford Road.

Nick

please visit www.hitotzuki.com to find out more

Anthony Freda  About the piece Title: The Prestitute The term “Presstitute” was coined by Gerald Celente” publisher of the Trends Journal. This piece is my interpretation of that colorful description of the bought-and-paid-for mainstream media.  Everyday new evidence surfaces detailing just how corrupt, controlled and mendacious the media has become.  They helped promote the lies that brought us into the Iraq war, and have largely become mouthpieces for the corporations that own them and the national security state.  Regurgitated, Pentagon scripted talking points now take the place of honest information and reportage.  The good news is that people are waking up to this reality and that the solution, citizen journalism, is on the rise. Bio Anthony Freda describes himself as an ‘information warrior’.  His award -winning work has been published in the op-ed page of The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and many other mainstream newspapers and magazines. His labor of love is providing art to like-minded alternative media websites and blogs in the causes of peace and freedom.  Freda’s provocative images routinely go viral, appearing on millions of computer screens, attempting to open hearts and minds the world over.

Anthony Freda 

About the piece

Title: The Prestitute

The term “Presstitute” was coined by Gerald Celente” publisher of the Trends Journal.
This piece is my interpretation of that colorful description of the bought-and-paid-for mainstream media.  Everyday new evidence surfaces detailing just how corrupt, controlled and mendacious the media has become.  They helped promote the lies that brought us into the Iraq war, and have largely become mouthpieces for the corporations
that own them and the national security state.  Regurgitated, Pentagon scripted talking points now take the place of honest information and reportage.  The good news is that people are waking up to this reality and that the solution, citizen journalism, is on the rise.

Bio

Anthony Freda describes himself as an ‘information warrior’.  His award -winning work has been published in the op-ed page of The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and many other mainstream newspapers and magazines.
His labor of love is providing art to like-minded alternative media websites and blogs in the causes of peace and freedom.  Freda’s provocative images routinely go viral, appearing on millions of computer screens, attempting to open hearts and minds the world over.