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A Boy With Glasses CD Cover Comp
We ran across this little opportunity whilst checking out the latest music from A Boy With Glasses and thought we’d put it out to the Creaturemag community… Design the new artwork for the new “A Boy With Glasses” CD.
Please read on for further details.
The music of “The Boy With Glasses” can be found here:
http://www.myspace.com/aboywithglasses
Please have a listen before you consider submitting an entry.
Creaturemag Festival Project - Creature@ Secret Garden Party.
Is this the best festival that we have ever been to? I think it probably is, not simply because it’s set around a lake, not just because we met some of the loveliest friendly people and not because we saw things that we had never seen or even thought about seeing before, but because all of it, every single little detail merged to create a party like no other we have attended.
Keep your eyes peeled here for some photos of our escapades, and those of other Creatures who ventured into the Garden. This ones first on the list for next year!
A Short Story about the Secret Garden Party, By Creature…
If you would like to make illustrations to accompany this story in the forthcoming festival edition, please express your interest by sending no more than three examples of your work to Creature@creaturemag.com.
At dusk, our satchels laden with all kinds, my garden companion and I set out for the Valley Of The Antics, a mystical playground beyond the great lake. The immensity of our journey was yet to be revealed. Meandering through lonely pianists and absinthe soaked poets, we wandered, stopping for a short time to gaze at the hoola-hooping actors gyrating wildly to the re-enacted plays of Shakespeare.
Neon spotted twitchers paraded with great bearded torch bearers walking hand in hand with gremlin brides on the scavenge for new sights, sounds and substances. Pickle faced storytellers beckoned with warty hands whilst crawling backwards into their tented caves, new mysteries baffled us at every turn.
We approached the great lake, alive with a green pulsating algae, passable only by rowing boat or by braving a zig-zagging stone path that hung across the surface of the eerie lagoon. Backs hunched and heads bowed we pressed on, cautiously avoiding eye contact with the creatures that lined the levitating thoroughfare. Some braved the sludge only to be hurriedly dragged, screaming with legs flailing in the syrupy liquid.
Around a small jetty pirates fashioned rafts from shoreline waste and other collected debris, launching them into the drink and paddling with haste towards a proud galleon standing anchored in the centre of the great body of water, more and more boarded the ship, doused in rum and dancing before they disappeared into the midst of a gun powder explosion.
Corpse laden branches greeted us on the southern shore, a Burtonesque masquerade. Trees baring shoes and boots of all kinds, forbidden fruit emitting a bright green haze and plumes of white vapour sheltered rogue traders taking unfamiliar currency in exchange for gaseous laughs. From nowhere zipped three pretty little fairies.
“Do you recognise me?” They twittered, flicking fluttering wings through the hair around my over grown earlobes.
“Do you recognise us”
“Do you recognise me?”
“Here, take a flower, a rose as red as morning, and god speed on your journey.”
A rugged approach led us to a inclining ridge from the top of which, we were told, we would have the most enchanting view of The Valley, the abundant mass of land dwarfed us, but our ascent was surprisingly quick…
“Welcome to the third tier. To proceed you must present us an offering, if we deem your offering worthy we will in exchange provide you with potions to aid you in your journey, then allow you to continue your voyage to the peak.”
We presented a purse of small yellowy gems and in return received a phial brimming with a white powdery substance which we were informed would allow us to continue travelling in the face of exhaustion, and on we traipsed.
Our advance toward the summit brought yet more wonders. Some Creatures sat cross legged, clothing elaborate and faces painted, prancing sprites and lurching swamp creatures tangled with mud monsters and starry eyed grass hoppers. Legless ladies enjoyed tea and cake at the foot of the steepest incline, sheltered by the brush and kept cosy by the remaining warmth of the day that still seeped from the ground.
At the summit we rested. Our perch in the darkness offered a valuable vantage point from which to inspect the unravelling madness below. The creatures, all silent, moved in circles, some laboriously in their arced rotation others more nimbly upon backward bending knees. Some embraced the music box, an intriguing asymmetrical object from which emanated a revolving, repetitive beat, providing some degree of certainty amongst the ensuing chaos; others exchanged currency for the gift of sound and continued to move the night into twilight.
From there, as we laid to rest at the dawn of a new day, as the sun stood on the shoulders of darkness and fell upon the happy faces of the fields, it appeared, disentangling itself from the mist as if being dragged towards us on a rope, The Valley Of The Antics. Through it’s glare we could see souls in the smiles on the faces, in the longing gaze of lovers and in the lingering embrace of strangers thrown together. These nights and these people are not lost, they live on in each one of us, in our memories, in our smiles, in our thoughts, on our journey to The Valley Of The Antics.
Creaturemag Festival Project
So… we have just arrived back from Dare2 Festival in deepest darkest Wiltshire. What a great time we had too… please click here to see photos.
Gallery includes: Open mic stage organised by Pete Loenard and Matt Britton, Giant Mushrooms and drawing workshop organised by the whole Creature team and other bits from collaborating creature artists, lulu allison (newspaper Mural) and Charlotte Potter (Textile Sculpture).
Welcome to the Creaturemag Festival Blog.
Here we will publish updates and diary extracts, photos and drawings, thoughts and rants from our festival tour which has already got off to an exciting start.
For details on how to get involved with the festival project please click here: I want to get involved!
For further info please contact creature@creaturemag.com
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Dare2 festival 12th -13th July - Creaturemag arty party at Dare 2 festival - Tollard Royal Wiltshire, including collaborative canvas, Decorated open mic stage, animals everywhere, Charlotte Potter’s Sculpture, giant Mushrooms (images below), Laura Trevail - Emergency cord photography installation, Lulu Allison Newspaper artwork… and some giant mushrooms to see iamges please read on For more images please read on…
Fri 20th June 2008.
Up next the artwork of Micheal Hawkins. www.michaelhawkins.co.uk
Currently showing until 15th Aug… Laura Trevail’s Emergency Cord photographs. A collection of disabled emergency cords. Plus a piece by Creature Editor Matt Witt.
Winchester Gate Gallery… First showing 23rd May- 11th June (pictures below). Featuring Bob Milner Nat Kay, Jesse Jermyn, Julie Vermeile and Tom Mason.
Thanks to all the artists for being involved in the first Creature Gallery and to the lovely people at the winchester gate for allowing us to use their music room for the Creature Festival project. We will continue to rotate images throughout the summer, If you would like to be included please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Tuesday 10th June 2008
Creaturemag Festival Itinerary.
The list below gives a brief overview of the events we will be attending and the mischief we plan to have at each one, it is subject to change and there is much more to be confirmed within each event, watch this space for updates.
Ongoing - Creaturemag gallery at the Winchester Gate - For info on showing your work please contact Creature@creaturemag.com
12th -13th July - Official Creaturemag festival party at Dare 2 festival, including collaborative canvas, creaturemag open mic stage, Charlotte Potters Sculpture, giant Mushrooms Laura Trevail - Emergency cord photography installation and much more to be confirmed.
Festival related artwork at Secret Garden Party exhibition - organised by Ruth Collins, Cambridge Private view Friday 11th, more details to come.
17th - 20th July - Creaturemag missionaries at Latitude. Laura Trevail - Emergency cord installation. More Guerilla Galleries + more in the pipeline.
24th 27th July - Secret Garden Party - Crazy costumes and collaborations galore - More Guerrilla galleries.
22ND -25TH August - Shambala - More Guerilla Galleries. Plus perfomance from Lucy Nicholls, more to be announced.
5TH - 7TH September - Bestival. Crazy costumes (30,000 freaks under the sea), guerilla galleries. More to be confirmed.
12th -15th Spetember - End of the Road Festival - Creaturemag festival Finale. Emergency cord photo corners! Guerrilla galleries - plus loads more to be confirmed.
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Friday 30th May 2008
It Starts! With makeshift galleries.
Well the Creaturemag festival is off to a great beginning at the Salisbury International Arts Festival 23rd May - 8th June. The first weekend of this diverse festival is occupied by Salisbury Live, an entire bank holiday weekend with every venue throughout Salisbury jam packed with great local bands and artists playing to eager music fans. This was the ideal showcase for the first Creature Guerilla galleries. Early on Thursday morning, we whacked up our first gallery on the gates of the Fisherton Mill Gallery (images to follow). Created in collaboration with Bob Milners project, PEEP! this gallery displayed a few of his own satirical drawings which take a mighty swipe at the state of the modern art world, and the “artist” culture as a whole. They have non-conformity written all over them.
Our first official, real, proper gallery… in a pub!… continued.
Creaturemag Festival Project
If you’d like to get involved please read on, if you are looking for Creature Festival Updates please click here.
For Festival Itinerary please click here.
For further info please contact creature@creaturemag.com
For the next wonderful Creaturemag project, Creature and the team will be embarking on a festival tour with a difference. This summer we will be attending festivals with the intention of setting up (with or without permission) guerilla art galleries.
On the ground, in the trees, on sticks, fences, portaloos, in the mud or on our person; we intend for the artworks to be displayed in a variety of inventive ways, adopting whatever means necessary, in various locations, at a number festivals throughout the country. But not just festivals remember…. this can be applied anywhere.
The new Edition of Creaturemag
Click here to launch the mag Yes, it’s been a long time coming, but the latest edition of Creaturemag has finally arrived. For Creature VII we gave up our editorial reigns to seven lucky golden ticket winners who each put a great deal of time and effort into creating their very own Creature page. With an emphasis on collaboration and the DIY ethos Creature VII presents to you seven pages of eclectic collaboration between some prominent artists currently embracing the DIY thing.
This is their Edition so Creature will say no more except for we hope you enjoy the show…
New mini release. Short story by Taymaz Valley - Illustrated by Jessie Jermyn. Click here to launch the page
With Creaturemag VII looming we thought we’d wet your appetite with a mini edition of creaturemag. This time around we paired up with Tailcast.com in offering the opportunity to illustrate a story by Taymaz Valley and what a success it’s been.
Thanks to Taymaz for this intriguing short story and to Jessie Jermyn for the dreamy illustrations. Click here to launch the page. Please feel free to leave any comments below.
We hope you enjoy the show.
edUKaid - charity artist opportunity.
For our latest artist opportunity we have teamed up with the Charity edUKaid. They require a comic strip story board that tells the story of the charity’s work so far. Primarily providing schools and educational equipment. This opportunity will give a lot of exposure to the artist involved. The comic will be sent out with the edUKaid brochure as well as being displayed on their website: www.edukaid.com
More details will be released soon, in brief - we require a 12 window comic strip in a quirky, colourful cartoon style, the story and words will be provided. There is a tight deadline. Any interested parties please contact Creature@creaturemag.com.