Exhibition : Ink & Paper

We have been invited to participate in this! Should be a good ‘un

Ink & Paper exhibition 2012 - London E1 5LJ, May 11th, 12th, 13th - poster by Telegramme

 

 

Misc : 2011′s Titbits & Oddities

SO…

Awaking from hibernation, we tuned in the radio and learnt that the world, despite Mayan Calendar 2012 promises, was still pumping out Auto-tuned, vocoderized, oversexed and orange tanned Xpop filth… disappointing.

We went back to bed for another day or two and then, when we realised that we’d forgotten to pack a can-opener, emerged from the bunker, squinty eyed and shivery… winter is a drag is it not?

Anyhow, we’ve done some star jumps, smoked our last ever ciggies (for-real this time) and got our systems all tingly and expectant for a bright new year! We have some cool things on the horizon, so yeah – its time to buck up!

Let’s get a few things posted to round-up 2011 though – (we are still occasionally posting about projects we completed ages ago, there are a ton, but these items here are from quite recent events).

First up is a poster we collaborated on with good friend Matt Dixon. The Black Angels were playing the Scala back in September and we finally got through to them and got a poster deal (after at least 2 other attempts in previous years – bands on the road can understandably be pretty tough to reach and pin down). There’s a great 60′s, anti Nam, Civil Rights Movement type buzz and energy to the band’s hard-fuzz psychedlic output and after the pitiful display of nike/xbox looters in London last summer, we thought it would be a grand idea (if a little edgy) to do a piece about real revolution. Kinda.

Black Angels gigposter - London, Scala - Screenprint, 3colours, 45cm x 32cm, edition of just 30

We wanted to make use of Matt’s excellent photo seperation skills (taking a multi-toned image and reducing it to just a few stencils for screening – 3 in this case) and the image Matt found was perfect for a Z poster composition (where the reader reads from left to right, then has their eye drawn back to the left by the image and reads again). Followers of The Petting Zoo stuff could well be forgiven for failing to see anything resembling our usual stuff – This anxious Illuminati character peering from the media billboard was perhaps the only significant clue to our involvement

Detail : Spooky Petting Zoo character

…certainly a step well aside from our usual cuteness theme – don’t worry, more cuddly critters on the way, we just need to get gritty and snarl once in a while.

Another project that occurred at the close of ’11 was Monk Jam part deux – A crazy deadline based assignment where 20 artists were given the same theme to produce a piece of work about in just 72hours before the show was to be hung! The theme on this occasion was pretty cool : “The Good, The Badass & The Ugly”

Petting Zoo’s piece was a screenprint of a supposed psycho-analytical report about a character “P.Z.” and the multiple personalities housed in their noggin…

Here is a very, very bad camera phone pic of the piece (but at the same time appropriately screwy and shot at about 4am during a caffeine maelstrom).

Schizotypal Halllucinator's Iconographic Translation, Artprint - Monk Jam 2, Teatray In The Sky, Southsea - Screenprint, 1colour, 64cm x 45cm, edition of just 5.

Filled out in red biro by “Nurse Simms”, the (Oscitant Hypnagogic) Schizotypal Hallucinator’s Iconographic Translation (OH SHIT for short) recorded the patient’s different personalities’ responses to the large black circle and highlighted where each voice was calling from on the diagram of the brain (bottom right). The 3 “voices” were recorded pretty much as follows…

Voice 1 “Gerry” : It’s a giant cookie, yum. No wait! it’s a Stevie Wonder LP
Voice 2 “Badass” : Its my customised naughty Twister spot – press your boobies here. [session postponed]
Voice 3 “Uncle Sally” : Its nothing, a big messy circle! give me my damn shot and leave me the hell alone!

Yeah – it was weird but fun… and some unlucky punter won this in a raffle – we actually love it though in honesty.

Lastly is another blip of oddma which we ummed and arred about whether to post – but blow it, it’s just a bit of fun! click here for an interview we were asked to give on this wonderfully crazy french guy’s website. Cheers Benoit!

Happy new year you lot.

HEAVY PETT!NG - Less cute, more adult themed work by Petting Zoo Prints & Collectables

Magazine : Creative Review – Monograph

Subscribers to Creative Review this month may have noticed Petting Zoo’s Graham Coxon print in the Monograph booklet – thanks once more to the Screenadelica guys (whom the feature was all about).

Creative Review's cover featuring an element from a 'The XX' gigposter by Screenadelica's own 'Horse'

Poster : Kings Street Tavern Artfair

its that time of year again folks!

December Artfair Poster - Kings Street Tavern, Portsmouth - Screenprint, 2colours, 45cm x 31cm, editions of 14 with promotional text and 30 without

Petting Zoo will be there of course, some of our gigposters will be on offer as will this barn owl and shrew print (just £12 on the day!).

We would happily trade a portfolio of screenprints for a Rollop box camera by the way, do drop by if you have one knocking about.

Artprint : Crocodile Pop

Here’s a bit of fun we had with a Warhol rip (R.I.P.)

This first edition is very limited – plans are underway for a second in the new year.

Crocodile Pop artprint - Screenprint, 4colours, 45cm x 32cm, first edition of just 10!

tastier than a can of Campbells soup

Book : Gigposters Volume 2

Extremely chuffed to let you all know that we’ve been included in this magnificent publication available now from good book stockists worldwide… Like volume 1, it features 101 different artists / studios each with a perforated pull out poster page with 6 or 7 more images and a write-up on the flipside. Quirk books really did a nice job on this, so get yourself to Waterstones and feel the quality!

Gig Posters Volume 2 : Available in good book shops worldwide.

Order this directly from the author (gigposters.com ‘s Clay Hayes) and you get a free print by a pretty darn cool transAtlantic outfit called Landland (I think they may have got that name from a Bill Hicks joke)

…seriously cool – thanks a ton Clay!

we’ll get you a layout shot and edit into this post later – our Melvins chiahuahua poster even made it to the back cover – wicked!

Gigposter : Wilderness of Manitoba

One of the friendliest bands we’ve ever met, The Wilderness Of Manitoba play gentle twinkling tunes laced with haunting harmonies… not entirely folk, not entirely pop (though one song reminded us of the wit and delivery of The Beautiful South), we heartily recommend fans of chilled strings and moonlit campfires to get along to one of their live shows – the two they played at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg this year were rammed and won very hearty applause.

Here’s a print we did to commemorate their trip to Germany with a melancholy, or perhaps musing wolf whose howls we hoped might marry the band’s distant dreamy choral sound. Some of you may recognise him as Silver from the Red Riding Boots series we designed for the ‘Hungry Like A Wolf’ Guerrila Art Market show some time back here in Brighton.

Wilderness Of Manitoba gigposter - Hamburg, ReeperBahn Festival - 2colours, 45cm x 32cm, Edition of just 33

There are only a handful of these left, a bargain at just £15 each!

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