36 year old freelance illustrator, Richard Wilkinson, has taken his merry time to find his niche in life. It all started in York, where he studied fine art, “In the 1st week I was told not to use black lines. Don’t go there. They sucked all the joy out of it for me. After that I worked in sound design and then in commercials production until I remembered I wanted to be a commercial artist. That was 3 years ago”. And some where in between, he had a brief career in music, although he is rather modest about it (he was signed to Ninja Tune you know!), “I used to make music but was rubbish at it. I still listen to it though. I’m good at that.”
We pinned down the multi talented maestro to quiz him about his work and got together a selection of his illustrations for you to devour… (more…)
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Lewis Heriz studied faces at Grundisburgh Primary, and later at Farlingaye High School in Woodbridge, Suffolk, and employed this study in the low art of caricature during lessons. This got him into trouble on at least one occasion but the look of brief mortification on the face of Mrs Wright at his comparatively flattering portrayal of her became the kernel of an addiction to the capturing of human likeness with pen on paper. Despite this compulsion, he went on to study English in Nottingham, promptly catapulting him into the catering industry. Three years gorging on words, and another three on pizzas, led him to burn it all off with a brief spell as a promoter and DJ, bringing sporadic nights of 60s funk and afro rhythms with his fellow waiter/raw funk enthusiast Hexford; an enterprise they called The Mighty Funk Collective. The posters Heriz designed for these events brought him back to pen and ink, and he now lives and works as an illustrator and designer in London. (more…)
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If you ask Michael Brimmer what he likes, what inspires him, you’re in for the duration.
“Here goes,” he says, “Femme fatales, acid house hues, images that scream, honesty, sleep deprivation, stale cigarette smoke, vintage glasses – but not sunglasses, interesting mustaches, odd encounters, jazz from bebop to mystic fusion, people who keep things moving, bad make-up, glitter on the right people, booty bounce, street artists who don’t wear Carhart, New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, a slight sense of dazed bewilderment, Japanese films, things I’m not supposed to do, inappropriate humour, nerds with no social skills, warm beer, cold beer, champagne, Parisian weekends… and girls in amazing shoes.” (more…)
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Adam Oehlers studied visual communication at the University of South Australia. During this course he majored in Illustration and puppetry. These two art forms complemented his love of story telling and in 2001 he formed a puppetry troupe named ‘Mr. Fortune’. After two years of freelance illustration and puppetry shows in Adelaide he moved to England where he lived in Brighton for four years. Continuing with the puppetry, ‘Mr. Fortune’ grew to a seven-person troupe performing their shows in theatres and venues around Brighton. Their life-sized glow in the dark puppets danced their way through bizarre, changing landscapes to a live music soundtrack provided by local artists Lyricool Lips and Bunty. (more…)
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Fred Deakin is probably best known as one half of electronic outfit Lemon Jelly with Nick Franglen. He’s also a Creative Director and founder of design company Airside who have worked for everyone from Virgin Trains to the pop star Mika (see www.airside.co.uk). It was not always this way. “I once had a job shovelling bits of metal from under a car-crushing machine in Amsterdam,” admits Fred, “I was bumming around and I got stuck there needing some money.” (more…)
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Jason Manning’s life as a photographer has now returned to the untempered passion for his art that he began with.
“I didn’t have the patience to do painting,” he says, “so when I left Suffolk Art College I borrowed a camera and went round India for six months taking the sort of photographs that I liked.” (more…)
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Ben Allen, 27, was born and raised in Brighton, the son of an artistically inclined travel agent and equally creative bank project manager from whom he thinks he inherited his talents. However, he describes the defining event of his life as discovering his dad’s Led Zeppelin albums, aged 12. (more…)
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Born Keith Hopewell and raised in York, UK, Part 2 was one of his home city’s original hardcore graffiti crew. Initially as much interested in the danger and illegality of graf’ culture, he sooned earned his stripes with a unique figurative style that drew attention and eventually saw him exhibiting beside Futura 2000 and Goldie. In recent years his attention has been more focused on music production for Part 2’s studio work is at the leading edge of UK hip hop (Roots Manuva, Ty, etc). His own group New Flesh are one of the funkiest, most innovative acts around as their new album ‘Universally Dirty’ demonstrates beyond doubt. On the visual side of things, Part 2 has his SerialType show from the 12th to the 22nd September at the This Way Up Gallery at the Dragon Bar in London’s Leonard Street. (more…)
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