Two new screen prints for the exhibition in Swansea next week inspired by animals created from shrubs in a park in Mumbai – and the contrast with the lively wildlife such as jackdaws and chipmunks. The prints are available from The Old Sweet Shop’s online shop.
Here’s a new set of screenprints ready for the show ‘A Pair of Drawers’ with my sister Alison Porter. The prints are inspired by the resident bowerbird at Melbourne Museum, and show the variety of blue things bowerbirds like to collect – pen lids, bottle tops, clothes pegs, toy helicopters…in non-urban areas they collect snail shells and feathers instead.
‘A Pair of Drawers’ is at The Brunswick, 3 Duke Street, Swansea SA1 4HS, October 8 – November 22, 11.30am to 11pm daily.
I saw lots of exciting and inspiring wildlife in Australia, from the embryonic Portuguese men o’war that look like inflatable blue slugs to some very very cute koalas including one that sat at the very top of a thin tree just like a pinecone. But my favourite is the bowerbird at the Melbourne Museum – I am going to write a new story about bowerbirds and their love of blue things. The cheeky runaway koala was at Sydney Wildlife Centre.
Lanterns for the Year 6 leavers’ party at Sheringdale Primary School in Southfields, hanging from apple and plum trees.
Lots of people came and enjoyed playing with the giant cubes and looking at pictures at the private view at The Old Sweet Shop on July 17th.
A screen printed edition of 35 posters for the Snout Claw Tusk Paw exhibition. Available from The Old Sweet Shop’s online shop.
I am getting ready for my exhibition at The Old Sweet Shop. It will be on from 17th to 31st July.
Watercolour sketches drawn at the Chelsea Physic Garden.
Molly is one of a number of willow and paper sculptures made in a workshop for years 1-6 at Merton Park Primary School in May.
