Heavy Pencil at Pick Me Up 29/03/12

With Pete Fowler, Jim Stoten, Luke Best & Nick White (drawing)
Andrew Rae, Jim Stoten, Nick White & Owen Gildersleeve as Slack Lemon (live)
Verner (live)
Chrissie Macdonald, Jess Bonham, Anna Lomax & Lauren Davies (prop styling & costumes)
Miles Donovan & Pete Fowler (dj)

Photography by Jess Bonham & Freya Faulkner

The Museum of Objects & Origins

Photography by Jess Bonham

The Museum of Objects & Origins website

Check out the archive of our residency at Pick Me Up, with more to be added over the coming weeks including our Encyclopedia of things we didn't know 'I DID NOT NOW THAT!' created at a weekend workshop with Graham Rawle.

www.peepshow.org.uk/moo

Peepshow Collective's Museum of Objects & Origins

The Museum of Objects & Origins is a collection of artefacts including drawings, objects, prints, and costumes. Exhibiting items from an invented past, the collection is also a living, growing display as themed workshops create new works to fill the final few cabinets.

The museum's online archive will be updated daily at www.peepshow.org.uk/moo

'Pick Me Up - Contemporary Graphic Art Fair', March 22nd until April 1st 2012. Somerset House, Embankment Galleries, London, WC2R 1LA

Booking here.

Heavy Pencil at Pick Me Up

Thursday 29th March Heavy Pencil at Pick Me Up

Pete Fowler, Jim Stoten, Nick White, Luke Best, Miles Donovan, Andrew Rae, Owen Gildersleeve, Chrissie Macdonald, Lauren Davies, Anna Lomax and Jess Bonham

6.30pm-9.30pm Entrance included in fair ticket £8 or multiple entry pass £12 or £6 concession.

www.somersethouse.org.uk/pickmeup

In preparation for Pick Me Up 2

Peepshow Weekend Workshops at Pick Me Up

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Bare Bones

Saturday 24th March & Sunday 25th March, 12pm-6pm

Peepshow moved studios in 2010. During the move, a box was unearthed in a long forgotten corner of the old studio: in it, we found an unidentifiable set of bones.

Extensive research has failed to reveal the creature they came from.
These bones are not human, nor mammal. They don't belong to bird nor even dinosaur.

Can you help us piece the bones together to work out what creature it might be?

Aided by our team of amateur archaeologists, you can create a unique relief print to take away and begin your own museum.

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I DID NOT KNOW THAT!
The Peepshow Encyclopaedia of Things We Didn’t Know
With writer and artist Graham Rawle

Saturday 31st March & Sunday 1st April, 12pm-6pm

Did you know that emus can’t walk backwards or that Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button? We did. Did you know that Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise; that rabbits can’t vomit; or that Barry Manilow is an anagram of Library Woman? We knew all of those things too. Why don’t you tell us something we don’t already know?
In our quest to compile a comprehensive Encyclopedia of Things We Didn’t Know, Peepshow invites you to provide us with a fascinating fact to add to our archive. It can come from the world of science, history or nature––or it could be something personal: your father’s hat size, the opening hours of your local Costcutter, or what your Uncle Roy likes to spread on his toast. From the astounding to the trivial, all of the facts we collect will be gathered together in a giant Peepshow online encyclopaedia, providing a fountain of knowledge to delight and enthrall all of humanity.

At the I Did Not Know That! workshop, each participant will be provided with an exciting jamboree bag ‘kit’ containing everything he or she might need to create a special collage, drawing, written message or mini-sculpture. Each completed piece of artwork will be photographed for inclusion in the online archive and displayed during the workshop in an ever-expanding wall frieze of little-known facts. Your contribution can play a vital part in building this extraordinary archive; The Peepshow Encyclopaedia of Things We Didn’t Know. Take part today!

'Pick Me Up - Contemporary Graphic Art Fair', March 22rd until April 1st 2012. Somerset House, Embankment Galleries, London, WC2R 1LA

Booking here.

In preparation for Pick Me Up

Secret 7"

We are proud to be involved in Secret 7", a project which aims to rekindle some of the excitement for sleeve art in the digital era by exploring how a track would be interpreted by an array of brilliant artists.

In April The Idea Generation gallery in Shoreditch, London will exhibit around 700 unique seven-inch sleeves inspired by tracks from The Cure, Florence + The Machine, Bombay Bicycle Club, CSS, DJ Shadow, Noah & The Whale and Ben Howard. The exhibition has an added air of mystery as no-one will know who designed each sleeve, or which of the seven tracks is housed inside.

On the 21st April, Record Store Day, each of these true one-offs will go on sale – and only after purchase will the buyer find out whose creations they have bought. Every penny profited from the sale of these exclusive vinyl records is going to Teenage Cancer Trust.

The line-up of musicians have dug out their pens, pencils and paints to visualise their song within that 7"x 7" square; along with a crack team from the world of art, design and music.

Each host has also challenged creatives from across the world to submit a design through the Talenthouse platform. Thousands were submitted and whittled down to join the exhibition.

Finally those designs will be joined by a few from teenagers that the charity has helped.

Secret 7" on Facebook

Secret 7" on Twitter

Peepshow Collective

We are very excited to announce details of our first book, 'Peepshow Collective', published by Index book.



Peepshow has achieved a rare alchemy: corralling a set of unique visual talents into a cohesive, and hugely influential, collective. Over the past decade, the London based group have worked across illustration, animation, set design, textiles and art direction for such clients as the Victoria & Albert Museum, M&C Saatchi, BBC, The New York Times and SHOWstudio, while also creating their own work for books, exhibitions and events worldwide. They’ve represented the best of British image-making at expos for The British Council and The Museum of Modern Art in Japan, and have featured in shows at the ICA, the Hayward Gallery and Somerset House. Despite, or because of, their focus on the individual, Peepshow as a group have become a force to be reckoned with. Instead of fitting themselves into a preexisting mould, the ten members have together created their own market. This book is a chance to delve into the Peepshow imagination, scanning collective and individual work from the past decade and glimpsing future directions. It’s also a rare chance to see behind the pixels, an interview with all of Peepshow’s members offering their take on where they start, when they decide to stop, and what happens in between.

Hardcover, 254 pages, over 600 illustrations, with interviews and essays by Alex Bec, Graham Rawle, Margaret Huber and Peter Nencini. Design by Studio EMMI.

Available from Index Book, Rough Trade and Amazon.

Book photography by Jere Salonen

Pick Me Up 2012

Further details of our 11 day residency at Somerset House for Pick Me Up have just been revealed over at the Pick Me Up website.

Following Rob Ryan in 2010 and Anthony Burrill in 2011, this year Peepshow Collective are artists in residence for Pick Me Up 2012. We will be presenting The Museum of Objects and Origins.

For eleven days only, we will be bringing together a collection of artefacts including drawings, objects, prints, and costumes, to be housed in our very own museum. Exhibiting items from an invented past, the collection will also be a living, growing, changing display as themed workshops with the public will create new works to fill the final few empty cabinets

We will also be hosting a series of workshops with special guests throughout the fair including:
A public print workshop (Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 March)
A Peepshow talk (Monday 26 March)
Heavy Pencil with Pete Fowler & Jim Stoten (Thursday 29 March)
A public collage workshop with artist & writer Graham Rawle (Saturday 31 March & Sunday 1 April)

Booking here, more info about Pick Me Up 2012 here.

Competition time

Two copies of our book to win over at It's Nice That's Facebook page. Competition closes 12 noon, Wednesday February 22. UK entries only. There will be further chances to win a copy in the coming weeks via The Pick Me Up Facebook page and Twitter. Stay tuned.

Peepshow Newsletter February 2012

The Peepshow Newsletter for February 2012 has just left Peepshow HQ for inboxes everywhere, if you missed it check it out here:

Peepshow Newsletter February 2012

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