Pens & Needles
CUSTHOM, made up of Jemma Ooi and Nathan Philpott, invited designers from various disciplines, including fashion and illustration, to create 2D work that was then translated into stitch using a 'hacked' digital embroidery machine. Running until 14 Jan, the exhibition presents these experiments, with 10% of sale proceeds going to Art Against Knives. With the show about to close, here's a chance to see some of the resulting work.
Here’s some people talking in front of David Sparshott’s Cooking With a Vietnamese Community Group. Let’s get closer….
This is A Bee In My Bonnet With A Honey Hair Comb by art director and prop maker Fred Butler.
Here's Paul Blow's Hunter Hunted inspired by 'the sound of blasting shotguns ringing out across the Dorset countryside.'
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The rather mesmerising Stripes based on the initials of its creator typographer and graphic designer André Beato.
It’s even more eye-crossing in close up.
Here’s Giedre Domzaite’s Stripy Day. The illustrator and animator explains, ‘For me drawing is a thinking process. If I want to think about something – I just start drawing and then all the real and imaginary creatures start creeping out from somewhere. Same as thoughts they end up being tangled and mixed up in one big mess’.
Artist George Wu made this piece having worked on handmade paper ‘confetti’ with Sarah Gottlieb.
Last but not least, here’s _DB London 1_2 by Hawaii Design
PENS & NEEDLES
An exhibition of tactile embroidered posters is at Print House Gallery. 18 Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL until 14 Jan
www.pensandneedles.co.uk
