This is my entry for an illustration prize/poster campaign to encourage cycling in the city, coinciding with the city’s new bike hire scheme, bike-building workshops, etc. happening this summer.
There’s an exhibition of shortlisted illustrators at the London Transport Museum from tomorrow 6 July – 22 August. I’ve already seen some of the other artists’ work and there’s some amazing stuff, so go check it out!
I’ve been painting an old guitar…
Albert Grass was a designer of amusements at New York’s Coney Island in the early 20th century and founded the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society in 1926. He was a passionate advocate for new ideas about psychoanalysis and actually tried to get Coney Island’s original Dreamland amusement park, destroyed by a fire in 1911, rebuilt as a Freudian theme park. He kept a dream journal (in the late 1930s) that used comics language to explore his unconscious, starring a semi- autobiographical character named ‘The Dreamer’.
The artist Zoe Beloff is curating an exhibition of work from the journal in September. I like thinking about ‘comics’ in this way- as coming from a basic desire to use both words and images to bring a vision to life- rather than always having to talk about the history and form of comics as comics. Should be intriguing…
Apparently I’m late to the Dash party, but this looks really good! I get the impression he’s got a surprising mind. It reminds me of Fantastic Planet/La Planete Sauvage in that 2-D psychonautical fantasy way. Inspiring!
Which reminds me, have you been reading Sam Hiti’s Death Day?
Guardian Spotting
My cycling poster made it into a little web gallery selection on the Guardian’s site. A little pat on the back is better than a kick in the teeth, eh?