The International Postcard Show 2016

Surface Gallery welcomed back the International Postcard Show. A vibrant, long-running exhibition including hundreds of original artworks from established and aspiring artists from all over the world. All submissions were included, from painting and print through to textiles and illustration, creating a wonderfully eclectic mix of artwork. All artworks were priced at £15, if the work doesn't sell it can be swapped randomly with other work in the exhibition.

I sent these

looking forward to receiving my swaps!

You can view the show here

SURFACE GALLERY INTERNATIONAL POSTCARD SHOW 2015

My entries are variations on a theme, more apples falling, more running whippets more, ripening bellies. I decided to use the templates left over from printing my Print Swap edition and stitched them onto watercolour paper and added a few pen or pencil marks. You can find out more about the exhibition and get an invitation to the Private View here. It promises to be a wonderful show with many delights!

INTERNATIONAL POSTCARD SHOW 2015

• Fri, Jan 16, 2015  18:00 
  Sat, Feb 14, 2015 17:00

• Surface Gallery16 Southwell RoadNottingham
• NG1 1DL 

This year during the exhibition, postcards will be for sale, all priced at £15, presenting a fantastic opportunity to snap up an original work of art at an affordable price.

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Compass

During October Beacon Arts presented an exhibition of four new commissions at three heritage sites in rural Lincolnshire: Woolsthorpe Manor; Grimsthorpe Castle and Ayscoughfee Hall. International artists Jordan Baseman, Amanda Coogan, Jem Finer and Bethan Huws drew on the particularities of Lincolnshire to create new artworks. Amanda Coogan worked with seven emerging artists selected from a national open call to create a performance piece at Ayscoughfee Hall that took place as part of the guided excursion only.  Amelia Beavis-Harrison, Joana Cifre-Cerda, Robert Foster, Laura Mahony, Julieann O'Malley, Hestia Peppe, Sally Anne Roberts. 

Hestia Peppe - Ayscoughfee Hall

I went on the coach trip during Saturday October 20th and was reminded of Ceila Fiennes book Through England on a Side Saddle. With this in mind I decided to use the camera in my phone and variety of editing apps as a means of sending myself a set of postcards made during the day.  By using the apps I felt I was embracing some of the spirit of the Marcel Duchamps 'Ready Mades', as the technology was ready made and the images formulaic. The colours and style have a deliberately pseudo vintage look and my cue for this was largely taken from Jem Finer's space travelling mini-caravan. On my return I wrote the words to accompany the postcards. The journey, the properties, the art / artists and the incredible ticket price (£7.50) made it a hugely enjoyable day which posed many questions and delivered on many levels. 

The last tours take place 27/28 October Details and to Book

You can read the postcards in the posts below.
Postcards - WoolsthorpeManor
Postcards - Grimsthorpe Castle
Postcards - Ayscoughfee Hall