LE GUN print at V&A shop

We were commissioned to make this limited edition print especially for the exhibition 'Memory Palace'. It's a generous 60x80cm, signed & numbered, and on for sale exclusively at the V&A shop, and online here!

LE GUN at the V&A

LE GUN were asked to produce a piece for the Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition 'Memory Palace'. The exhibition is based on novelist Hari Kunzru's story of the same name, which he wrote especially for this purpose. Twenty graphic artists were then asked to illustrate a section of the text in any way they liked.

The story is set in a dystopian London of the future, where an electrical storm has wiped all memory, knowledge has disappeared, and previous ideas and concepts are vaguely misremembered at best. Our piece of the text describes how 'doctors used to roam the streets, performing great tasks,' which led us to produce a misremembered ambulance.

We went about it in our usual way, going from concept to drawing to realising that drawing into three dimensions - you can see the piece at the V&A in London until October 2013.

LE GUN make V&A shop displays

To coincide with the V&A's exhibition 'Memory Palace', we've been commissioned to create the shop displays for the run of the exhibition (June until October 2013). We made two giant head 'light boxes' for the two large display cases out front containing a drawing each, and eight different memory heads that are displayed inside the shop.

Here is an article in Creative Review about the making of these pieces, featuring some action shots too!

LE GUN Artwork for Shoreditch Estate Office

LE GUN have done some giant posters of the phantasmagorical creative superhighway known as Shoreditch. The group drawings are an ad campaign for the property company The Estate Office, who rent out studios and other spaces in the area. Many famous Hoxditch-ites are featured, amongst them such local luminaries as the Krays, Gilbert and George, heavy metal Jewellery designer Duffy, music Svengali Sean McClusky and scat man Gavin Bennett. Thanks to the creative agency HamiltonPyne who collaborated with us. The billboards are up around Shoreditch until further notice. Otherwise you can also see the full pictures here - and here's some action shots of us (Bianchi, Bragg, Fox, myself, & Rubbish) drawing them.

Shock Horror!

So it's been more than 2 years since I have done anything about my online presence, which I'm trying to rectify asap – been super busy travelling around, doing a LOT exhibitions all over the place etc. All good, but onwards and on.

Currently you can see some pictures of mine at:

Guts for Garters present: Sex and Death

20 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, London WC2H 9LG

Artists from LE GUN: The Last Huzzah of the Hoxditch Leisure Pirates,

Robert Rubbish & Steph von Reiswitz

Radio Hair Salon, 93-97 Redchurch Street, London E2

Alvarado Gallery: Pain at the Dentist, 33 Chatsworth Road, E5

Bare Bones #9: There will be a lot of conflict, Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery, 30A Redchurch Street, London E2

Bare Bones 3

Drawing Room at Tate Britain

Georgia Jacob and I are up to our old tricks again, this time setting up in the beautiful 'portraiture 1700-1800' room at Tate Britain. There's a whole host of other interesting stuff happening - talks, performances, social experiments, you name it - so drop by if you're around. 2pm-5pm, free.

wah! it's been almost a year...

...and my online persona's been totally stagnant. Too much to do is the reason, but I'll try to update when I get a minute. (Been illustrating and exhibiting and travelling etc, it's all been good.) more pictures soon...

BB2 in the press

(dazed & confused 02/10)

Dean Street Townhouse

There's a new permanent show on at the Dean Street Townhouse (69 Dean Street) in Soho which opens to the public on Wednesday November 25.

The place has got some decent Soho history - initially the Townhouse's 18th Century building was a printing press for publisher Novello. In the 1920s, it housed the notorious Gargoyle club, a haunt for people like Noel Coward, Sigfried Sassoon, Dylan Thomas, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, John Minton and Graham Greene. Matisse created parts of the red and glass interiors, and his painting 'The Red Studio' hung on its walls. In the 1970s, a goth bar (The Batcave) moved in, earning the space a cult following, yet another following (with overlap) came in its next incarnation as a men's sauna and massage parlour. In the 1980s it hosted the nightclub Gossips.

The collection (themed around the allures of Soho) is on permanent display on the ground floor and includes such eminences of the art world as Andrzej Klimowski, Peter Blake, Tracey Emin, Noble and Webster, Gavin Turk, Fiona Banner, Paul Noble, Damien Hirst, Jamie Hewlett, Jose Parla, Keith Tyson, Mark Titchner as well as lots of younger folk including Neal Fox and myself. Drop by and have a little cocktail or a nibble, I'm told the food is exquisite.

Wilton's Café Poster Exhibition

Dave McH, chief of the Notting Hill Arts Club and various other ventures (and the man who provided us with the means and opportunity for the infamous LE GUN shoe shop of curiosities), has opened a new café. It's called Wilton's, at 63 Wilton Way in Hackney, serves excellent food and drink and also houses London Fields Radio. To mark the opening Dave invited us to stage a little poster exhibition there.

I'm trying to find better pictures as all the posters were great (featuring Bays, Bianchi, Bragg, Fox, Greene, Heretic, Kariya, Malt, and myself) - here's Heretic & Fox's contributions, and below that my own.

Bare Bones 2

Bare Bones 2 - launch and exhibition at Maurice Einhardt Neu gallery. Heretic were this issue's cover stars and showed a selection of posters as well as a limited edition screen printed BB book jacket, while other BB members put pen to A5 paper and sold several wallfuls of original drawings at a competitive price just in time for the christmas rush.