I curated and organised a one night only guerrilla gallery showcasing artist talent from a range of disciplines, including product design, illustration, 3D installation, styling, photography and poetry.
The event was inspired by street renegades and their innovative and quirky methods of communicating with the urban environment. The movement into fresh directions beyond street art and graffiti are subverting the 3D streetscape by using new materials and techniques to shock, educate and entertain the public, changing the way we experience city life.Under the bridge exhibition makes the most of the public space that surrounds us, without destroying, vandalising and defacing it permanently. Using magnetic hooks and temporary methods to display the work of selected artists.I hope to develop a platform on which artists who do not have the means or access to exhibit, a chance to shout out their message. A guerrilla gallery can do this and this is what “Under the Bridge†is about, claiming the streets back. Advertisers and large corporations don’t ask for the public’s permission to bombard us with their messages. So why should we ask permission to expose ours? We didn't and it totally kicked ass! Invite: designed by Macki* The venue: Under Albert Bridge. Manifesto: "Under the Bridge" by Macki* Designer of Albert Bridge: Rowland Mason Ordish (Respect!) Illustration by Macki* - "Trippy Tramp 1"3 hand drawn illustrations combined with photography and psychedelic rainbow colours. The photograph is of a lonely weathered tramp I saw sitting hunched on a bench by Albert Bridge. Waterproof brown tape round his ankles to keep the cold out and a shredded backpack splattered with mud. The fluid doodles surround him, he is tripping out, and the doodles signify the trippy ambience that envelops him.E-mail: [email protected] www.macki.co.uk Illustration by Macki* - "Psychedelic Trippy Tramp 2" Trippy self-portrait: Macki* "Psychedelic Trippy Tramps" Emma Viner & Fern CatlinI also wanted to portray this trippy ambience by asking 2 friends (Emma Viner & Fern Catlin) to dress as 'psychedelic trippy tramps.' Wearing all my colourful ghetto-clashing clothes! My illustrations come alive and become living, breathing installations that mingle with the crowds of the 'Under the Bridge' show, filming and begging for contributions for the mulled wine on tap! Site-specific fashion: Combining my photographs of surrounding urban environments with clothing: M* M* M* Matthew recording the sounds + vibrations of the bridge for his sculpture."Sound Tag: Albert" sculpture By Matthew Plummer Fernandez, a product designer studying at the Royal College of Art.Sound tagging is a new activity for documenting the sounds of our city. Most large buildings have distinct auditory signatures as a result of vibrations generated by traffic, underground, and wind that resonate through the solid structures. In simpler terms: buildings have voices. The sound is recorded professionally capturing the otherwise unnoticed sound of the structure and graphed 3-dimensionally on a volume/frequency/time graph. The graph is turned into a 3-D sculpture by laser-cutting acrylic."Worn" illustration also by Matthew Plummer Fernandez www.plummerfernandez.com Illustrations by: Hans LoHans replicated the mental state of a tramp by getting stoned and seeing what creative output could come from it by drawing under these tramp like circumstances! His three hand drawn fluid illustrations are attractively framed, strong in their simplicity and void of conceptual pretentiousness that mirrors the freestyle life of tramps... "Faces" by Ed Wood (Woody)These howling tramp like faces are emerging from the walls representing characters from a narrative he wrote. This piece is dramatic and juxtaposes many other pieces in the show. For it is a painting on canvas that has been taken out of context, from a four walled gallery to the street. Illustrations: "A Man about town" by Louise Pashley (University College for the Creative Arts, Epsom)5 mysterious unknown men appear in Louise's stunning mixed media collages. Illustrations: "A man about town" by Louise Pashley "Who Lives In A House Like This?" By Thomas Webber“One of the doors under the bridge had 'pussy' graffitied onto it; probably this was just mindless graffiti or an unoriginal tag; i didn't know where the door led to, but I imagined what it would be like if it was a pussy cat that lived behind this door. I drew the cat as if they were coming out of their home just to check what was going on under the bridge, to see what all this noise was about.â€www.thomaswebber.comPoloroids taken from both sides, under the bridge by Thomas Webber. "The Affordable Housing Project" installation by Holly Steidl, George Ellison & Lily Arnold: "GollyGosh"'The Affordable Housing Project' By 'Gollygosh' is an on-going project creating quick, on the spot, installations in and around London. Inspired by the living spaces of the homeless and they found by creating a small shelter out of cardboard boxes and objects found locally to a specific site and putting an installation inside, was a cost effective and environmentally friendly way of exhibiting work in London. GollyGosh are all theatre design trained and see these pieces as being more performance based as it is more about how people interact with the installation rather than the piece itself. They hope to develop and expand the idea further to venture more towards larger public performances. Each Installation will be branded with the GollyGosh name so if you ever see one please take time to venture inside! To contact you can find GollyGosh on Facebook or email at [email protected] Photography: "Pig Activites" by Amelia Karlsen"Pig activities is a test-shoot exploring the concept of 'life and death' as well as an experimentation of my own boundaries relating to the disturbing depiction that is macabre. The idea originally developed from the still life shots by Irving Penn, and are continually developing."The contents in the photos consist of : a dead pig's head that cost a bargain price of £2.50 from Tooting butchers!The heads were styled with various items including: fake hair extensions (Tooting market), angel advent calender (Stylist's own), napkins and christmas lights (IKEA) Poem: "Beneath the Bridge" AnonymousScuttled up, suited down Bright eyed yet bruised in this Half-lit part of town. Hemmed in by a city stream Held up by a half-wit dream We bear anxious weights together And wonder when the floods will come. Under this bridge I foresaw the flow A hung-up hobo telling Where the river will go. Clicking my tongue in time with the swirl Wishing awhile for the warmth of the world.I stop. Meditate on the white lights of Albert Bridge.From the depths of my dark lungs and soul I bellow “ELLLAAAAA†in Apollean tones, cracking my brothel bootheels together feet from the floor in this twisted night-light I giggle and mutter like Knut Hamsun with my spirit sprinting to the stairs and onto smack house Soho dreaming of the countryside, Tolstoy and Guinness – Ah! Youth! And this side-alley street’s bitten again, so I’ll charge and curse like Odysseus, eye-brows raised, murderous eyes and heart ablaze, lips tender; two second hand sofas with God in between, my tongue will caress this city and tell tales of yesteryear, embracing strangers whilst rasping about realms beyond the mountains... Lotte Jarlset: 'Kalediafox' illustration Aplenty full amount of hot sausage rolls for the guests! M* & Will Lion sipping on home brewed mulled wine on tap! Incase the 'popo' came down I brought my bobby hat and some festive lights..why not!? Instant feedback from guests.... Sebastien & M* VIEW ARTICLEPress Article by "Don't panic" online publication! whooohooo! Written by Phoebe Hartigan ;-)N.B: An edited film of the evening is to follow. Filming and interviewing by the one and only Vinemista ! (Sexy Trippy tramp)Get a scroller sign at http://www.AceLayouts.com!Weeeeellllll.....I'm a tall, fun n' lively chick who loves life and her friends and to party and live spontaneously.......24/7.....
I am currently undergoing a FASHION PROMOTION AND ILLUSTRATION DEGREE AT The University College for the Creative Arts....I loooooove it. Designing Ad campaigns, Magazine layouts, Styling, Photography fun dressin' up all 80s in the photography studios....snap snap snap..........i will be a Creative Director, OWN an events/creative marketing agency......eeeeeeoww!? Also contribute, freelance designer to the hottest magazine des jours, working in the creative spectrum of advertising, fashion, art, lots of music, misbehaving and mincing around HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE.....!!!! MACKI STAR WILL BE. X
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