Print & Design Now 2011

Wee exhibition I'm in down in London for all you cockney types to go check out at the SW1 gallery.
"Artworks have been selected by a panel of arts professionals ensuring the very best quality of work on show. These include, Owen Ward, SW1 Gallery Manager, Julia Alvarez, Director of BEARSPACE and Mary-Alice Stack, Director of the Own Art Scheme at Arts Council England.



This exhibition will showcase the very best in contemporary art and design at prices that are affordable to the younger collector and great examples of limited edition print and design items by up and coming artists from all over the country. Take this opportunity to invest in artists of the future as selected by some of the UK’s most distinguished authorities on art and design.

Prices range from £25 - £1000 for editioned prints and one off works. All works will also be available on the catalogue section of our website, launched on the 28th July!

This exhibition is presented in partnership with Land Securities, Arts Council England's Own Art scheme, which provides interest free loans of up to £2,000 for buyers of contemporary art.


PRINT & DESIGN NOW, will initially show at the SW1 Gallery, and will then go on to tour at venues in London and the UK, including BEARSPACE and Art Fairs in 2011."

Class of '62

The "Class of '62" print has just been selected for the PRINT & DESIGN NOW show in London town taking place as the SW1 Gallery from 28 July - 23 August and at Bearspace in November. I really like this new piece it still makes me chuckle. Its only on a limited run of 15 items so get em while they are still availible.

Eat Haggis

A new website for the "Eat Haggis and Celidh On" products I designed last year has just been unveiled the, tis looking quite nice http://www.eathaggis.com/ There is also a new twitter account @eat_haggis which is also worth a visit.

I wore my own Eat Haggis T-shirt to the tennis yesterday to watch A+J Murray destroy the Luxemburg team and it brought me lots of very nice comments.

The tennis was quite a fun event, not really all that similar to Wimbledon, where they had Pims, strawberries and cream, we had Irn-Bru and some quite truely disgusting nachos. Where they had respectable clapping between points we had a large gourp of identically dressed folk yelling out such things as "Oh Oooooh Murrays on Fiiire" and to the very young blonde Lux guy, "Who stole your Milky Bars?" and where they had Sir Cliff to "entertain" we had two folk dressed in silver sequend outfits prancing around to some rock pop and pretending to play electronic violins??

Etsy Showcase at Art Smart London

Rather interesting dispaly by Etsy at Art Smart London replicating their home page, with some very nice card board text. The eagle eyed among you will spot my Ships Crew Russian Dolls at bottom left and Paul of Navarone's My mother was a circus . . . print at top left. Not sure who the other works are, anyone know?

Skinny - Ship's Crew

Sitting at the Tramway in Glasgow this morning reading the new Skinny mag and discovered my Ship's Crew adorning the diary pages. The article is about the Magpie Market at the Hub in Edinburgh which I'll be at on the 17th from 11am til 4pm.