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12pm Onwards.
For one weekend a selection of the UK's most exciting and original contemporary applied artists, graphic designers and illustrators will be relocating to Leeds; transforming Marshalls Mill and the Holbeck Urban Village into working studios, publishing houses, print shops and workshop spaces. This is a rare chance to see behind the scenes of the artists studio, meet those who make the work and see work being made live.
The LOOP shop will also be selling a selection of affordable one off and limited edition work by the artists involved.
Follow the links below for more information about the artists involved.
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Analogue Books
Analogue is a bookshop in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stocking & sourcing wonderful artist books, prints and objects from all over the world as well as publishing their own books. Analogue exhibit some of the worlds most interesting graphic designers and illustrators, past exhibitions include Yokoland, Jon Burgerman, Nigel Peake, Neasden Control Centre, Tom Gauld and many more.
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Qubik
Qubik is a graphic design studio, specialising in typographic-led design for branding, print and digital media, the studio works with a variety of clients in the commercial and cultural sector. In addition to client-based work, the studio initiates and produces independent curatorial and publishing projects which focus on typography and graphic design.
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Matt Hodson
Matthew the horse is an illustrator, poet, educator and idiot. He likes to draw. He likes other people. He teaches in an art school. He has just bought a new bike. He is from the country side. He is frustrated by cynicism.
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Nous Vous
Nous Vous is a group of artists & friends collaborating on design projects, illustration, exhibitions and workshops. Nous Vous is Jay Cover, Nicolas Burrows & William Edmonds.
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Yoke Books
Yoke Books is a publishing platform for image-makers, designers and artists based in Leeds.
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Catalogue
Catalogue is an independent graphic design studio set up in 2010 by Oliver Shaw and Tom Pratt. The studio specialises in design for print, branding, identity, books, exhibition and web.
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Lizzy Stewart
Lizzy Stewart graduated with a first class degree from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009. She is a fan of pencils, cardigans and Russian history. And also bears. She is also one half of the superexcellent duo Sing Statistics with designer Jez Burrows.
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Jez Burrows
Jez Burrows is a designer, illustrator and forest appreciator, based in Edinburgh. He is co-founder of independent press Sing Statistics, one fifth of collective Evening Tweed, and frequent contributor to It’s Nice That.
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TOY
Toy is an Award winning collective of European Designers, Artists & Illustrators working collaboratively with a network of specialist agencies. Together they have produced a variety of work for a global client base including Sony, Macy’s, Hilton Hotels, Nike & Busch Gardens. Creating within digital, print & real world environments under Toy’s Creative Direction.
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Sister Arrow
Sister Arrow is an artist and illustrator working with drawing, painting and animation. Using themes of preservation, display and discovery of hidden information. Her work has been featured in Dazed & Confused magazine and she has worked with musicians such as Florence & the Machine, Friendly Fires and Wax Stag.
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Across the weekend Marshalls Mill will host a series of talks, debates, lectures and round tables. A line up of the industries most interesting artists will be discussing their work, as well as current themes and issues in applied arts. Talk at LOOP combines provocative ideas from our speakers with opportunities to network and swap news and views with other attendees.
A list of speakers is below. A full conference timetable and sign up details will be announced in the coming weeks.
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James Jarvis
Friday 17th – 6.30pm
Marshalls Mill
Born in London in 1970 and raised on a diet of Richard Scarry, Hergé, Judge Dredd and Albert Camus, Jarvis studied Illustration at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1995. Since then he has gone on to establish himself as a graphic artist of international repute.In 1998 Jarvis designed the iconic toy figure ‘Martin’, unwittingly helping start the ‘designer’ toy phenomenon.
Drew Millward
Friday 17th – 12:00pm
Marshalls Mill
Drew likes to draw ‘the old fashioned way’, using pencils, pens and a love of the craft of illustration. While his subject matter can vary dramatically, he hopes that the attention to detail and the love of drawing is apparent throughout his work. He has exhibited throughout the US, UK, Europe and beyond.
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Qubik
Friday 17th – 1:30pm
Marshalls Mill
Qubik is a graphic design studio, specialising in typographic-led design for branding, print and digital media, the studio works with a variety of clients in the commercial and cultural sector. In addition to client-based work, the studio initiates and produces independent curatorial and publishing projects which focus on typography and graphic design.
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Lizzy Stewart
Friday 17th – 3:00pm
Marshalls Mill
Lizzy Stewart graduated with a first class degree from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009. She is a fan of pencils, cardigans and Russian history. And also bears. She is also one half of the superexcellent duo Sing Statistics with designer Jez Burrows.
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TOY Roundtable
Friday 17th – 4:30pm
Marshalls Mill
Toy is an Award winning collective of European Designers, Artists & Illustrators working collaboratively with a network of specialist agencies. Together they have produced a variety of work for a global client base including Sony, Macy’s, Hilton Hotels, Nike & Busch Gardens. Creating within digital, print & real world environments under Toy’s Creative Direction.
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Jez Burrows
Sunday 19th – 2:30pm
Marshalls Mill
Jez Burrows is a designer, illustrator and forest appreciator, based in Edinburgh. He is co-founder of independent press Sing Statistics, one fifth of collective Evening Tweed, and frequent contributor to It’s Nice That.
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7:30pm onwards (Doors 7pm)
Over the weekend LOOP will be hosting a series of daytime and evening live art, interactive and spoken word events. Friday 17th June will see the LOOP opening party play host to live music and live drawing from the Best Joined Up collective. On Sunday 19th June Kibbo-Kift close the weekend an evening of spoken word performances and live music.
Out of the Woods café will be in residence over the weekend serving food, hot & cold drinks.
Details of all evening events can be found below.
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Kibbo Kift
A Revelry of Music, Poetry & Art
Acts to follow
Sunday from 7pm
Venue TBC
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Limn
Saturday from 7pm
Marshalls Mill
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Limn is a live visual event that merges the digital and the analogue, by showcasing the delights of good old fashioned hand drawn artwork, via the 90′s school assembly medium of Over Head Projectors, and transporting the felt tip into the internet realm of live, world wide digital projection.
Tim Ineaux
Friday from 7:30pm
Marshalls Mill
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Tim (or ineaux, he’s not yet figured out his 3rd person persona) is doggedly pioneering the art of YouTube jockeying, in the firm belief that cloud sourced audio visual content will be the future of entertainment, regardless of the odd stray pixel along the way.
Collages for the information era, ineaux’s mixes feature music videos, adverts and mashups, interspersed with clips from film & tv, all streamed live from the web. Sampling global beats, dubs and electronica, whilst working a sideline in brass bands, 8-bit geekery, childish humour and wonky weirdness, ineaux traces pop culture’s family tree back to its audio and visual roots. Often basing sets round a theme, ineaux spans the spectrum of arty through to party, though not necessarily all at once.
http://rehashleeds.wordpress.com
Best Joined Up
Best Joined Up makes live art, exhibitions and events happen and travel. We gather together graffiti artists, street artists, illustrators, doodlers, designers, animators, filmakers, photographers, dj’s and producers and give them time and space to create together in live environments.
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Jon Boam & Matt Hodson
Sunday 19th – 7:30pm
Marshalls Mill
‘Spirit of The Animal’ Presentation
I love drawing characters and strange magical/technological objects – these are some of the themes I’m fond of – super powers, madness, time travel, mutants, monsters, aliens, space technology from the future, magic, secret caves,enchanted forests, robots, ghosts, interdimensional worm holes, insects, dinosaurs, animals, space ships, villains, idiots etc…
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www.cargocollective.com/jonboam
