Friday 31 January 2014

What Do I Do Now? - Verse on Paper - Poems 1

As mentioned earlier I have created a poetry book for the Verse on Paper project from the New York Art Collective - The Sketchbook Project. Some of the poems are below. For this project I illustrated the poems.








Tuesday 28 January 2014

What Do I Do Now? - Verse on Paper

Verse on Paper was a poetry project from the Brooklyn based art collective The Sketchbook Project.

I created a book for the project called  - What Do I Do Now? The front cover is below:


Thursday 23 January 2014

Exhibition List 2013

Here is a list of all the exhibitions I took part in during 2013.




Papergirl Dublin 2013 Exhibition
1st Floor, Lucy’s Lounge, 11 Fownes Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
15 - 25 August 2013
Exhibition of illustrated postcards. This work includes photography, which I have turned into postcards and illustrated with ink and marker pens. The work also incorporates text and poetry to create engaging imagery and storytelling.

Quiet Forest Exhibition -
Forest Cafe - 141 Laurieston Place Edinburgh,
6th August 2013 -
Exhibition of a comic book that combined sequential artwork and poetry.

Toronto sound project
Noise Project Exhibition - 99 Gallery/West Queen West Triangle, 99 Sudbury St, Toronto, Canada
26-28 July and online exhibition at http://thenoiseproject.net/author/sfrase/
I took part in an online art project called The Noise Project. This was an initiative from the Toronto based art collective Labspace. For 10 weeks I had to create a piece of artwork based on a noise.


Papergirl Estonia Exhibition
PK 79, Riia 4, 51004, Tartu, Estonia
25 April - 4 May 2013
Exhibition of illustrated postcards. This work includes photography, which I have turned into postcards and illustrated with ink and marker pens. The work also incorporates text and poetry to create engaging imagery and storytelling.
http://stevens-stuff-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/papergirl-estonia.html

6X4 Exhibition
Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, 13 Perth Rd, Dundee, DD1 4HT
14 - 27 March 2013
I exhibition an illustrated poem. The poem was created on a postard that was sized 6" by 4".


Sketchbooks - USA Tour
I created three sketchbooks for the Sketchbook project. This is an art project from an art collective based at Brooklyn Library New York. The sketchbooks went on tour to various cities including those in the list below.

BROOKLYN
Brooklyn Art Library - March 1-3

AUSTIN
Co-Lab Project Space - March 8-10

ATLANTA
The Goat Farm Art Center - March 15-17

TORONTO
The Gladstone Hotel - June 7 -9

CHICAGO
Hyde Park Art Center - July 12-14

PORTLAND
Cleaners at the Ace Hotel - July 19-21

SAN FRANCISCO
S.F Center for the Book - July 26-28

LOS ANGELES
iam8bit - August 2-4

WASHINGTON, DC
Canal Park - September 7 - 8
 
BROOKLYN
Brooklyn Art Library - October 11 - 13

The work from my sketchbooks can be seen here:


Poetry and Paint Exhibition
Craft Central, 33 - 35 St Johns Square, London, EC1M 4DS
30 March 2013
I exhibited 2 illustrated poems and 2 custom made vinyl toys. The work was presented in a pop up gallery and also published in the Poetry and Paint anthology.


Adventures in Comics Exhibition
Pie Factory, 5 Broad Street, Margate, CT9 1EU.
21-24 February 2013
I exhibited artwork from a 2 page comic book I wrote and illustrated. The work was presented as part of a group exhibition and also published in a book.

Tuesday 21 January 2014

Franklin Poems Downloadable Zine

http://franklinpoems.wordpress.com/
A downloadable zine of illustrated poetry is available at the Franklin Poems website. This collects the first 10 poems in the Franklin Poems project.

Monday 20 January 2014

StoryBox - Discardboard Exhibiton

Currently I am in a special Exhibition involving cardboard. The exhibition is called Discardboard and it is taking place at the Forest Centre Plus art space in Edinburgh. In total 40 artists are exhibiting work and I am presenting Story Box - a comic book made out of cardboard.









Story Box is an experiment in taking comic books away from the page and the digital and presenting them as a physical object. Cardboard seemed like the perfect medium to do this. It is customisable, durable and cheap.

 

I developed a 4 page story that could be read in any order. The content of the story reflected the experimental nature of the Story Box comic book. The story involved a young boy who could not communicate. 






The exhibition will be held on 17 - 26 January at Forest Centre Plus, 38 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, EH3 9SJ.
 

Sunday 19 January 2014

Images from Private Play number 6 - Invasion ASAP

Here are some images from Private Play number 6 - Invasion ASAP.
I am illustrating Play Scripts and Designing the Website for Do it Theatre.
Private Plays are short plays that people can perform themselves. More info on Private Plays can be found here.
The images below are taken from the sixth script.