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Mail Art: E17 in WF Guardian.

February 6, 2012
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>> Update on the mail art exhibtion housed at Walthamstow Wine, E17: opening times, submission guidelines and press coverage.

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I am still seeking submissions for the mail art exhibition,click here for submission guidelines and deadline.

Waltham Forest Guardian have covered the exhibition with a nice write up, available to view here.

Regarding opening times, the exhibition is freely open to the public every other Wednesday from 3-9pm, the next Wednesday it is open is 15th February and then every other Wednesday after that. However, the exhibition may be viewed by appointment and that is possible Mon-Fri during working hours. The wine club venue is also an office and you can book an appointment to view the artworks by calling 0208 521 8296 or 07723 323 542.

The submission deadline for this leg of the Mail Art touring exhibition is April 2nd 2012. The exhibition will be moving on to Cardiff in April therefore the sooner you send your work in, the quick and longer it is displayed on this leg of the touring exhibtion.

Open call for artists, Mail Art: E17.

January 12, 2012
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Mail art work by György Galántai, 1981

This is an open call for mail art from around the UK and the world.

Mail Art: E17 is the first stop on a moving exhibition of mail art from artists and illustrators across the globe, housed on this leg at Walthamstow Wine Club in Walthamstow, E17, London. I am curating the exhibition in E17* and looking for curators for future exhibitions.

I am seeking art on any subject and in any form with the one stipulation that the art relates to a mailable or mailed form. For example, that could be art on jiffy bags, envelopes, brown paper, packages, art using stamps, printed or franked labels, mail stickers, stencils or mail delivery cards. You can draw, paint, cut, stick and glue, cut-out, construct, scribble or print. Anything goes.

If you would like to take part in the exhibition please email me at mail[at]marielouiseplum.com or send your work directly the Mail Art:E17, c/o Walthamstow Wine, 56-60 Grove Road, London, E17 9BN. The deadline for submissions is ongoing, however for this leg of the exhibition artwork should be mailed through by April 2nd 2011. The exhibition opens this Wednesday 18th January with my mail art work, and, as more mail art submissions come in, will be added to.

Read more about the world-wide cultural movement of Mail Art here.

*The reason I am exhibiting the first leg in E17 is because it’s a vibrant, art-filled community full of lovely people who are well into lovely things! Check out Stowscene to learn more about us.


Mail Art stamp and envelope with official Colt Anniversary postmark – Chuck Welch, aka Cracker Jack Kid, 1984

Mail Art Exhibition moves to Cleethorpes.

March 17, 2011
caroline twidle, cut-click, mail art
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The Mail Art Exhibition (which I have work in) curated by Cut-Click is on the move again. If you find yourself in Cleethorpes or St Helens any time soon you should definitely go and check it out. Loads of illustrators, loads of artists, loads of mail art!

“The cutclick exhibition is continuing to tour around the UK. The next exhibition opens this Tuesday at Artlandish Gallery Cleethorpes and is on until the 27th Feb. It will then travel to St Helens to be part of Soapbox 2011.

There is an evolving mail art catalogue and Sp:ke Dennis created this fantastic film of the exhibition.”

Cut-Click printed issue.

July 5, 2010
caroline twidle, cut-click, ink and mess, mail art, marie-louise plum
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Cut-Click have floated a winner yet again, this time by getting together a printed issue of their zine. Here’s a peep at the cover image, designed by Tigz Rice.

I have a two page strip about life in a magical wood. I love woods and would like to live in one. I’m not posting the whole strip up here, I want you to dig deep and purchase a copy.

In case you aren’t aware, Cut-Click are the fabulous folks whose Mail Art exhibition I took part in. The exhibition is still travelling round the country, next stop The Spider and the Fly pop-up gallery in Edinburgh.

Piece of work (not mine) featured in the Mail Art exhibition

To download archived Cut-Click issues, click here.

Snow and Royal Mail

January 7, 2010
cut-click, ink and mess, mail art, marie-louise plum, snow
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I have been trying to post my work off to Cut-Click for the mail art exhibition. The deadline is drawing to a close and my post office is still closed due to the lovely snow. Hope it opens soon cause I’m pretty excited about this fun exhibition and have scribbled quite a lot of work for it. Here’s the outer packaging…the artwork is still top secret.


You’ll have to visit the exhibition (details found here) to see my artwork before February.

I’ve got some magic pictures of the snow, would you like to see them? Okay…

Cut-Click Mail Art Exhibition

November 25, 2009
art exhibitions, cut-click, eastcoast school of art and design, ink and mess, mail art, marie-louise plum
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I’m very happy to say I will be exhibiting up North in the New Year. Exciting new illustration ‘zine Cut-Click are holding their second exhibition in January, which I will be part of.

This mail art themed exhibition will be held at The East Coast School Of Art & Design in the adventure-name town of Westward Ho(!). As the work featured will be mail art themed, the packaging is the art work. Postcards, painted jiffy bags, fold out zines, illustrated envelopes and various other packaging.

Since I have collect umpteen packets of envelopes, postcards, and packaging ephemera from the turn of the century to modern times I am pretty excited about this exhibition to say the least.

A letter-themed logo I made for my old website

I’ll keep you updated and perhaps offer you a peep at pieces that don’t make the final cut for the exhibition. All exhibition pieces will be kept top secret so you’ll have to go to see the show yourself.

The exhibition will be held at EastCoast School of Art & Design, Westward Ho, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN34 5AQ and will run from 19 Jan – 10 Feb, Mon – Fri (closed weekends)10am -4pm.

My stamp/franking inspired card

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