PLUS INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FESTIVAL

8 WSA! members recently took part in the Plus International Design Conference and Exhibition in Birmingham, UK. The festival was a great showcase with many high profile illustrators, designers and agencies taking part, including Si Scott, Jasper Goodall, Mcfaul and AOI to name just a few! The event had about 5000 visitors over the week it was on and was a great success! See just a few images of the event below, to see more of the collective members work shown at the show follow this link.

MEMBER NEW AGENT

WSA! member Jay Taylor has recently acquired a new agent, Anna Goodson Management, in America, congrats Jay! To view more of Jay great illustrations visit his website.

WSA! MEMBER SELECTED FOR JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE

WSA! member Ross Jones has been selected for the 2007 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007 with his piece called Refuge, this follows on from his selection for the Celeste Art Prize in 2006. The Jerwood exhibition will be touring around the UK during 2007-2008. Keep your eyes open for it coming to an area near you!!






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WSA! MEMBERS WORK IN URBAN OUTFITTERS

WSA! members Sarah Coulston and Louise Hodges are now selling their artwork in Birmingham's Urban Outfitters store. Sarah is selling her bespoke limited edition prints while Louise is selling her fine art oil paintings. If you can go there and check their work out.

Below are some images of Sarah's work in the store, unfortunatly a member of staff stopped me taking pics of Louise's work before i had chance to, poops!






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MUK ZINE LAUNCH/EXHIB PRIVATE VIEW

On monday 13th Aug WSA! held the private view for MUK, their first ever self initiated zine. For the first issue the WSA! members responded to the theme of Unfortunate Incidents.

MUK was launched, and available to buy at SE1 Gallery (www.se1gallery.com), between 13th-26th Aug. All artwork featured within the zine was also exhibited in the gallery.

For more pictures of the exhibition click here.

the zine will be on sale soon online on the colourbox online shop, keep those eyes pealed!!

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WSA! Presents MUK Issue 1. LAUNCH/EXHIB, 13th-26th Aug

On the 13th Aug WSA! will launch issue 1 of their self-initiated zine MUK. For the first issue the WSA! members have responded to the theme of Unfortunate Incidents.

MUK will be launched, and available to buy at SE1 Gallery (www.se1gallery.com), between 13th-26th Aug. All artwork featured within the zine will also be exhibited in the gallery.

Private View/Launch: 13th Aug 6pm-8pm
Exhib Dates: 13th-26th Aug (11am-6pm everyday)
Location: SE1 Gallery, Upper Studio, 1 Crucifix Lane, London, SE1 3JW

We hope to see you there!

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TWISTING FEELS GOOD!

I have just completed a "Twist" for the Feels Good Project. I was given a photo of some locals and asked to "Twist" the image by putting my slant on it, here is my attempt (original image is on the left, my image is on the right!). The Feels Good Project is a charity based exhibition project that is being put on in Taiwan, some big names are taking part such as Ian Stevenson and Jon Burgerman etc. There also happens to be a few people i actually know taking part such as Monsters Monsters, Mr Ben and James Bourne. it sounds like it will be a cool show, i just wish i could go over there to actually see it all!!

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Painting on Walls is Fun-Official!!

I was invited to do a bit of painting on a wall at the Supersonic Festival in Brum, with the Outcrowd Collective and palls, it was good fun and i was happy to be asked to take part. Here is my contribution.

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I was bored so i did a digital doodle.

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Konig Von Nichts

Hey heres my latest piece of work, produced for Spanish cultural magazine Lamono, and the STEREOHYPE Postcard competition, two birds with one stone, yes!!

What do you recon to it, its a slight departure for me but there you go!

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First Post!

Wow man the first posting on our collectives brand new blog page, now im here i dont really know what to say! Firstly i should say welcome to anyone who stumbles upon this blog and finds any kind of interest in it! Hopefully over time our collective members will make this site their own and post all their news, thoughts and general bumph up here for the world to see.

oh yeah a bit about us if you didnt know, WSA! is a collective of illustrators and fine artists based all around the UK. We take part in shows, art markets and various other events together.

see you on the other side!!

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