Peacock Visual Arts - Xmas Show

Gabi & Phil have work in the 2011 PVA Winter Show.

Keep your eyes peeled for some lovely black and white drawings from Gabi

Phil's produce entered a photo (in aid of Japan Tsunami victims) and a collaboration photo with John Rutherford.

the show's on until 23rd December.

http://www.peacockvisualarts.com/

ME~IDEA (by Phil Thompson) - PVA photostream on Flickr

Peacock Visual Arts have uploaded a selection of photos from the opening night of "ME~IDEA" - Phil's first solo show. http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacockvisualarts_printmaking

Phil @ Peacock Visual Arts

Phil's show exploring opinions, relationships with media & information (ME~IDEA) is now open at Peacock Visual Arts and will be on until the 22nd of december. Phil has also set up a microsite to document some experiments, texts and drawings : me-idea.co.uk

Phil's solo show at Peacock Visual Arts

www.me-idea.co.uk

Artist Philip Thompson continues to explore and question our relationship with ‘the news’ and how information gained through personal /collective experiences, social, historical and geographical contexts ultimately informs our understanding of how meaning is constructed and “opinions” are formed.

Me-idea will transform Peacock Visual Arts gallery into a sculptural experience by combining found objects with digital and documented correspondence.

27 November - 22 December
opening night Friday 26th Nov 6-8pm, all welcome

Oor Monsters - New work from Gabi and Phil

Gabrielle & Philip have made 12 new prints each for their show at the Beautiful Mountain (Belmont Street, Aberdeen).

Join them for the opening on Tuesday 29th of June 6pm - 8pm. The Show runs till mid August.

Massive thanks to Anita Stewart & Chris Whyte (for organising the show), the Beautiful Mountain (for letting us show there!), Peacock Visual Arts - for the Screen printing Facilities, Ewan MacDonald (for being very understanding!)

Save UTG (Union Terrace Gardens) Aberdeen

There's a bit of a stooshy going on in Aberdeen at the moment. Some people want an elegant, world class arts centre that will re-energise and invigorate the sadly dilapidated Union Terrace Gardens (to the cost of £13 million pounds - 75% of the funding is in place from many sources).

Some people want to concrete over the 6 acre site and "create a civic square to be proud of" - yes, Aberdeen's only central green space (without dead people in it!) has been earmarked to be turned into something we can't describe - as there are no solid plans for it yes - just artists impressions of slabbed expanses, unreal mature trees etc.

There are some people who don't want anything - and are happy to not have any progress in re-vitalising the gardens - a real travesty!

We are obviously on the side of the Arts Centre - after all, Aberdeen is woefully under provided with artistic venues (per capita) - not quite the same can be said for Oil related business ventures! - no wonder people think the Arts don't contribute "financially" to our economy (not that that is even a valid point, as life doesn't always have to be about profit and money and spend spend spend!).

Anyway - make up your own mind - check out the comparison site www.comparethesquare.com on the "facts" that we do know - after all - the ACSEF plans are still being visioneered and consulted on - as opposed to the PVA plans that got full planning permission and were about to be built last summer (2009) - until ACSEF & Sir Ian decided to put the breaks on that one.

Peacock class this weekend

Gabi and Phil will be running a workshop this weekend for Peacock Visual Arts for 12-16 year olds.
They will be exploring portraits without faces... utilising drawing, photography, digital and printing methods. The work will be featured in the OMG exhibition still on at Peacock's, running until 23rd December

See the making of OMG on flickr!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacockvisualarts_printmaking/4169519814/

OMG - creative Identities with PVA exhibition

Gabi and Phil have been working with Peacock Visual Arts & Creative Identities to make new work with the pupils of Craigielea school, Aberdeen.

They will be showcasing work that has been created over the last few months - getting the pupils to look at expressing themselves in "portraiture" without using "the face"... they are producing a collective, sculptural work from the output of the classes...should be interesting!

Also showing are Jo Gannon, Alicia Bruce, Iain Gildea...

for more info, please visit http://www.peacockvisualarts.com/events/243/creative-identities-omg

Gabi and Phil are also running a printing workshop for 10-15 year olds

Sat 12 Dec, 10am-2.30pm

I <3 UTG exhibition

The first in a series of I ♥ UTG campaign awareness events;
"insert".

An exhibition of local artists coming together to help raise awareness for the problems facing Union Terrace Gardens & Aberdeen’s new Arts Centre.

All works based upon the theme “heart” and will be on sale for £20 per artwork to raise funds for the I ♥ UTG campaign.

Gilla Brooker
Alicia Bruce
Libby Day
Fraser Denholm
Jim Ewen
Jo Gannon
Katie Guthrie
Eva Merz
William Moulding
Gabrielle Reith
Stuart Simpson
Anita Stewart
Philip Thompson
Sarah J Tingle

and more to be confirmed……..

So come spend the evening with Project Slogan & I ♥ UTG and help us create a better, greener and brighter future for out city.

Creative Identities classes complete!

Gabi and Phil have completed their classes with Craigielea school... we've had a fantastic time working with the pupils and teachers - and we would like to extend out thanks to them as well as the Peacock Visual Arts - Creative Identities team. It has been a wonderful opportunity for us to not only showcase our typeface a week project - but to proves that we can facilitate and run classes as professional artists.

We've been asked to come back to Craigielea in the next semester, and we've also been asked to work further with the Creative Identities project - so things are looking fantastic creatively for us. Particular thanks to Adam Proctor and Nicole Plumb for having the belief and trust in our work.

Typeface Classes with Craigielea School

We've been working with Peacock visual arts for the "Creative Identities" project, where we've been working with some pupils from Craigielea school, Aberdeen creating handmade typefaces from a range of materials.

We are working for four sessions utilising Found objects, Ink & Paint and Animation with several finished outcomes planned for the creation of the type.

We'll be posting some of the outcomes here, and also featuring a suit of typefaces in the typefaceaweek blog.

We'd like to thank Peacock Visual Arts for this opportunity, and look forward to running more workshops with them!

Phil showcasing typefaceaweek at open knowledge networks

Phil will be doing a 15 minute presentation and practical example of how to make a typeface with photoshop & fontCreator at the fantastic open knowledge networks - at Peacock Visual Arts. I believe there is beer available too...