Hi Everyone
Just a quick remainder to everyone that the 'Swifty Pop Shop' exhibition has been extented to Mid Feb 2010 due to high demand!
Swifty's limited edition prints & artifacts have flowen out!! As a result more prints have been made available! Hurry down while stocks last!
Sauce Gallery had an amazing turn out on the private. A big thank you to all that attended!
Don't miss out on the opportunity to see this great show!!!
Below is the URL to the photographs of Swifty setting up & Lauch Party:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/punchrecords/sets/72157622899089673/show
Swifty has created an mini-exhibition of his personal alphabet, The A-Z of Swifty - from Action Man to Zebedee, depicting different memories inspired by each letter. These are beautifully created pieces of art, each with an emotive story of times gone by.
The Pop Shop, which is being brought to Birmingham by Sauce Gallery and Punch Records, features Swifty’s Newsagents installation. This life size shop front was partly inspired by Peter Blake’s ‘Toy Shop’ and the artist’s fond memories of a local village newsagent in Lancashire.
As one of the true British graphic originators of our time, Swifty has been hugely influential in music and youth culture since he started out in the late 1980’s. Fresh from art school he landed a job at legendary THE FACE magazine. Over the past fifteen years he has worked for ARENA, been the art director of Straight No Chaser magazine and founded the company Swifty Typographix.
Between 1990’s, his output reached a whole new level producing a diverse volume of distinctive record sleeves for seminal record labels such as Mo’ Wax, Talkin’ Loud and Source 360 including the labels iconic brand logos.
Since then, he has ventured into the realm of art which merges his now-iconic graphic styles with mixed media executions. For the first time ever, he will be exhibiting his work at Sauce Gallery in Birmingham. (10th Dec - Mid Feb 2010)
As an additional special touch to his shows, Swifty will interpret the graphics of local iconic brands in limited edition prints which can be purchased exclusively at Sauce Gallery.
This is definitely an event for all lovers of old and new school alike!
The Pop Shop is open to the public at the Sauce Gallery, 5 The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth from 11th Dec to Mid Feb 2010.
For more information visit www.myspace.com/saucegallery or www.punch-records.co.uk
Kind Regards
Sauce Gallery
About Me
- Sauce Gallery
- The Custard Factory. Digbeth. Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Sauce Gallery is situated in the famous art hub of Birmingham, The Custard Factory. We are one of the UK's up and coming urban art galleries styling modern, contemporary, abstract prints and canvas artworks by a wide range of artists. Sauce Gallery exhibit British and International artists, focusing mainly on exhibiting emerging and mid-career artists. We present an integrated program of exhibitions, including solo-shows as well as group exhibitions. Our aim is to provide you with a destination to find out about everything going on in UK galleries, on our streets and anywhere else in the world that our wealth of talented artists might have passed through. The Sauce Gallery occupies 2 floors and is available for hire. The Gallery interiors are modern, simple, and very well proportioned with high ceilings; an ideal blank canvas for production and an elegant setting for all events.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Friday, 13 November 2009
Swifty Exhibition
The Pop Shop, which is being brought to Birmingham by Sauce Gallery and Punch Records, will feature Swifty’s Newsagents installation. This life size shop front was partly inspired by Peter Blake’s ‘Toy Shop’ and the artist’s fond memories of a local village newsagent in Lancashire. The Shop will also be home to the A-Z of Swifty Show, including pieces based around everything from Action Man to Zebedee from the Magic Roundabout.
The Pop Shop is the latest branch of Swifty’s expansive career. Having studied design at Manchester Polytechnic, at the age of 21 he trained under Neville Brody at The Face magazine. His work at The Face and later Arena led him to be recognised as one of the top new talents in the specialist world of typography.
In 1989 he joined the team at Straight No Chaser, a publication aimed at the jazz, jive and soul community. As art editor he drove the creative style that went on to embody the magazine as a whole. At the same time he established his own font company, Swifty Typograpfix, and spread himself between the magazine and producing fonts, record sleeves, club flyer designs and many other sidelines. Swifty dominated the scene, being the designer of choice for nearly every acid jazz label.
Curator of Sauce Gallery Amar said:
“Swifty is a design legend whose work cuts across all typography boundaries. Bringing the Pop Shop to Birmingham is a real scoop for the city, and will give visitors a rare opportunity to see many of Swifty’s personal projects first hand.”
The Pop Shop will be open to the public at the Sauce Gallery, 5 The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth from 11th December to 10th January 2009. For more information visit www.myspace.com/saucegallery or www.punch-records.co.uk
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Beggars Of Lahore Exhibition
The Beggars of Lahore exhibition has one more day remaining. This is your last chance to view an exhibition of film and photography By Sheba Saeed. The exhibition gives a great insight into the begging problem in Pakistan's capital, Lahore.
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