MARIE-LOUISE PLUM

Turnaround

marielouiseplum — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:37:33 +0000

Detail from Candy’s Supper, HAPPYLAND

Hello lovelies!

Here’s news of my next exhibition:

“You are invited to Turnaround – a series of 11 exhibitions in 12 weeks by members of the Waltham Forest Arts Club in the unusual space of an all windowed kiosk of the Wood Street Indoor Market.
Feb. 4th to April 28th.
Painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, photography, performance, video & sound works, installation, textiles, mixed media & crafts, bookarts, music and poetry. See the full schedule on the website: http://turnaround.yolasite.com”

I’ll be exhibiting pieces from my solo show, HAPPYLAND, from April 14th-21st with the marvellous photographer Timothy Kraemer and printmaker Anna Alcock. I’ve currently got a piece from HAPPYLAND in the group exhibition on at the moment so if you have a minute to check out what is happening at the newly jazzed up Wood Street Indoor Market I would urge you to go and check it out.

More information and location details here.

Mail Art: E17 in WF Guardian.

marielouiseplum — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:09:36 +0000

>> 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.

Valentinesy Day of Art and Fun

marielouiseplum — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:25:28 +0000

More information on the Wood Street Indoor Market where I will be exhibiting with the Waltham Forest Arts Club. I’m doing a masked interaction on the 11th and would love to see lots of folks down there.

“Love Wood Street Indoor Market?
Or never been to Wood Street Indoor Market?

Come along to an exciting Valentinesy day of fun in the Market, on Saturday February 11th, 10am to 5.30pm.

This is the result of a 3-month-long competition process and so we are really excited to finally open the doors on our new tenants.

There’ll be all your favourite antiques and records shops, AND the *GRAND LAUNCH* of our 21 BRAND-NEW shops!

Our new shops include a Florist (just in time for Valentines!), an Artisan Bakery, a new Coffee Shop, a Film-Makers-Shop, vintage clothes, accessories and poster shops. There will also be new spaces run by Craft Guerilla, Significant Seams, exhibitions by E17 Designers and the Waltham Forest Arts Club. As well as arty happenings by The Pink Bear Club and the Wood Street Picture Palace.

For those last minute Valentines gifts, there will be a host of new shops including new crafts and gift shops. Strange Fruit greeting-card makers will even send the Valentines Card for you!

With plenty of exciting launch events, including live mural painting by Animaux Circus (thanks to them for designing the poster!), and lots of special offers, it will be a great day to visit the Market, so hope to see you there!

See the Facebook event page and the the full list of new shops on the Wood Street blog.”

Masked Interaction & Group Show at Wood St Indoor Market

marielouiseplum — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:37:42 +0000

Hello folks! I’ve got a bit of news for you. Three bits in fact…

‘Archie Goes To Sleep’ – image from HAPPYLAND

First up, I’m part of a group show curated by Waltham Forest Arts Club, opening Saturday 4th February (yep, this Saturday!) at Shop 40, Wood Street Indoor Market, Walthamstow. Each of the artists have one small piece in the exhibition which will run for 2 weeks. I’m exhibiting the piece above, ‘Archie Goes To Sleep’ from my solo exhibition, HAPPYLAND.

Secondly, on Saturday 11th February, the launch day of the rejuvination of the indoor market, I will become a live installation in the gallery space. I am doing a masked interaction, something I rarely do these days, so come on down, put on a mask and interact with me! It’s not scary, I promise. Basically, I wear a mask, you wear a mask and we chat about a made up thing. There are also other performances on this day, including a cellist and poets. I will be doing the masked performance from 1:00pm. There’ll be lots of great stuff on as well as the official opening of 20 other shops!

Thirdly… in April I have an exhibition on with photographer Timothy Kraemer at Shop 40. The exhibition will run from April 14th-21st and there’ll be more news about it soon!

Cheerio for now.
Mx

Men and Women

marielouiseplum — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:27:01 +0000

Open call for artists, Mail Art: E17.

marielouiseplum — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:31:48 +0000

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 Nyíracsad Hungary 2012

marielouiseplum — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:39:17 +0000

images taken from 1st International Mail Art Exhibition

I’ve got some news for you good folks!

Next year I will be taking part in the 2nd International Mail Art exhibition at the Than Mór Mail Art
Museum, Nyiracsad, Hungary, organised by the local government of Nyíracsád and Ligetalja Tourist Association.

Lovely Cut-Click have scooped together all the work I did for them in a previous mail art exhibition which toured around the UK and I will be sending this off with a new batch of work.

This will be the final resting place of my mail art work as I have donated it to the Than Mór Museum. It will stay on exhibition there, rotating with other peoples work every 2-3 months.

The deadline for work is April 2012, so I am assuming that the exhibition will start in May/June. I will post up more news on this as soon as I have it.

Illustration up for Garden Media Guild Award 2011

marielouiseplum — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:19:59 +0000

Bit of a strange one for me, a few months ago I helped design and illustrated a booklet relating to children’s play areas in stately homes and public places. I’ve just found out that we (me and the author) are up for a GMG Award in the New Talent category. Fingers crossed everyone, if we win we are treated to a slap-up meal at a posh awards ceremony.

Here is the work again…

#SMHAFF Comic Workshop, Edinburgh.

marielouiseplum — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:49:15 +0000

It’s a relief it’s over. Only because I thought I would be rubbish at conducting the workshop. But as it turns out it went really blooming well.

On Saturday 8th October I ran a workshop as part of the Scottish Mental Health Art and Film Festival in Edinburgh. The workshop was predominantly for mental health service users, however anyone was invited to take part. After a brief (and very nervous) ramble about who I am and what I do, I led the class in an illustration workshop. And boy, did they work hard. Three solid hours of drawing!

The idea behind the workshop is to illustrate a day in the life of a mental health service user. It doesn’t have to be a generic day, and it doesn’t have to involve waking up and getting dressed…it doesn’t have to be literal. I wanted it to be a memory, or a feeling, it could be an abstract piece of work that does not stick to the lines of the comic strip. It can be colours or words or shapes. Or it can just be a stickman and it can just be a boring day. It’s about what you feel, how you feel being a mental health service user. And a person.

I took a whole load of materials up from London (in the heaviest bag known to man) so everyone could have a go using different pens, inks and paints. As well as a massive stash of pencil crayons and brush pens the artists got to try out dip pens, acrylic inks, marker pens, charcoal and pastel crayons as well as using mixed media such as collage.

Ultimately I would like to publish a graphic novel of collected strips from mental health service users. If this is something you would like to be involved in, please get in touch.

Some photos of what we completed at the workshop follow. If you would like to see all the photos from the day, including some of the exhibitions installed at the same venue, please click here and scroll through pictures to the right.

Scottish Mental Health Art & Film Festival

marielouiseplum — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:30:46 +0000

I am massively excited to announce that I will be working in Edinburgh this weekend for the Scottish Mental Health Art & Film Festival. If you’re about and you fancy it, and especially so if you are a mental health service user, I will be conducting a cartooning (in the loosest possible sense) workshop at North Edinburgh Arts (details below).

The workshop is free but places are going fast so if you do want to book, book now! All artists will have to option to display their work in the Festival exhibition and included in a large illustrated book produced by my arts in mental health organisation, Mental Spaghetti.

The workshop will focus on drawing a comic strip of ‘A day in your life’. Artists (no artistic experience necessary) will have the opportunity to work with lots of different pens, inks, paints and styles of drawing. The comic strip does not have to be a literal day in your life, it can be a feeling, an expression of a particular time, or maybe even no time in particular. You can always do a stickman cartoon too. Anything goes. The important thing is you get to have fun, create, and learn something new.

If you would like to take part please book now by clicking this link.

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A DAY IN THE LIFE: CARTOONING WORKSHOP
Edinburgh & Lothian
Workshop

Working with artist Marie-Louise Plum, you will create your own cartoon strip of a day in your life featuring what you think matters. All cartooners will have the opportunity for their strip to be exhibited in the exhibition and/or included in a book. No artistic experience required.
Venue Information
North Edinburgh Arts, 15a Pennywell Court, Edinburgh, EH4 4TZ
Event Information
Sat 8th
Free
Booking required – Telephone Kirsten at CAPS on 0131 538 7177 or kirsten@capsadvocacy.org
11am – 2pm

North Edinburgh Arts, 15a Pennywell Court, Edinburgh, EH4 4TZ