Merchandise from 109 is shortly going to be sold at different outlets across the city. This is the cabinet in the main reception of Plymouth College of Art.
Some nice reading…
Visitors to 109 have taken the time to write feedback in the visitors book. Makes for some nice reading…
Open for business!
Weds 27th Feb 2013
What a brilliant evening! Friends, family and VIPs called in to join us launch the shop. Lots of talking about the project and buying of merchandise. Over £250.00 worth of merchandise was sold in two hours! Tasha and Tommy manned the till and gave people guided tours of the shop and explained the project to visitors.
GRAND OPENING!
27th February between 5pm and 7pm
Come along ready to shop and find out more about the project.
See you there!
(heres an invite for you too…)
West End Day Trip Private View Invite
Stuff to buy teaser
Merchandise is now arriving from printers and manufacturers. Have a gander at this lot! Come and see (and buy) when the West End Day Trip shop opens. More info coming soon.
Tidy Trainers
Update!
Look at these. Trainers finished and looking great!
WORDS,TRAINERS AND WHAT’S NEXT?
Workshop Eight
Thursday 6th Dec
Artist Holly Smith and project curator Gareth Ballyn ran the last workshop of the project. Off to the market to make lists of ‘local’ words and phrases, these will be used on merchandise. Then after a warm cuppa settling down to do some drawing on trainers. Some pics below:
WHATS NEXT?
Laura, Holly and Gareth are beavering away working with printers and designers to take the visuals made by the group and apply them to an exciting range of merchandise.
Keep your eyes peeled in early 2013 when the West End Day Trip exhibition at 109 that will launch the range of fantastic products designed by the For Arts Sake group!
Shopping list: skylines, tower blocks, cauliflower, iced finger, pastie and a crabs claw
Workshop Seven
29th November
Project curator Gareth Ballyn and artist Holly Smith paid another visit to 109 today. Out and about up to the top of the nearby multi storey to do some skyline drawing and then a few last chances to draw the iconic buildings of Plymouths West End. Then back to 109 to finish off and tidy up work ready for Holly to take away and work up into designs for merchandise. The For Arts Sake group also did some observational drawings of objects purchased from around and about in the West End.
Shop stitch
Workshop Five and Six
Thursday 15th and 22nd Nov
Artist and craftsperson Alice Crawford ran two workshops with the group. The group worked individually to use their images and design work from previous sessions and incorporate them onto a pencil case or bag. This workshop involved not only design but also mastering the sewing machines!
SHOP WINDOW
Workshop Four
Thursday 8th Nov
Large scale collaborative work today. Artist Andy Bolton led the group through a process which resulted in them making a striking work in the shop window of 109.
Andy said they ” Created one image from everyone’s drawings, rather than maintaining ownership of their own personal imagery. The other thing they did involved drawing on a large scale. They then also explored the whole process of using positive/negative space and clearing some areas of the window completely to allow transparency in parts, semi-opacity in other parts”
Some images below of the architecture that inspired the group as well as them at work and the final finished piece.
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