Cool for Cats
A charity exhibition celebrating the feline form in its finest, from the troublesome but cute as hell house cat, to the largest and badest felines of the wild.
All works, from one-off pieces to limited prints will be for sale at reasonable prices, along with a selection of cards. All the money is going to be used as part of a fundraising effort for the Cats Protection fund.
Collectionistas
Risograph print exhibition.
25 posters by collectors, artists, photographers and designers.
Records played by connoisseur record collectors and refreshments will be available.
I love the obsession inherent in collecting. The completist, whether finding that all-important last football sticker to finish their sticker book or one of those committed men (more often than not) standing on a rainy platform furtively scribbling down train numbers. The amateur hobbyist, complete with vast selection of frogs/bottle tops/records/paper fruit wrappers/tram tickets/ whatever; I always admired those kids at school who had a million different shaped and coloured erasers (they were called rubbers then, before Aids)… I loved their dedication and their neatness and I got dizzy just trying to imagine how much pocket money they got… It´s all valid!
There something religious about this devotion. It´s repetitive, inspiring and, well, ultimately pointless. Long live the anoraks!
Kavel Rafferty. (curator)
Printing by Hato Press London
Prints will be on sale on the day and at The Mill Co. Store.
15th Oct – 24th Nov 11: Mill Co. exhibition
Mill Co. have teamed up with Monotype Imaging for their second annual exhibition which will launch at The Mill Co. Project space on Oct 15th to November 24th and feature as the November Time Out First Thursday show. Viewings by appointment only, email hello@millco.co.uk to arrange a viewing.
The brief this year is typographical and Mill Co. artists have been given three Monotype fonts, Akko, Neue Haas Grotesk and Rotis II to do with them what they please, re-draw them, illustrate them, set them on fire, anything. There are approximately 30 Mill Co. community members taking part, covering all disciplines from photography, film, graphic design, illustration, to 3D and digital, all with a typographical theme. Expect to see work from the likes of RART, Darren Hughes, Jimmy Fiction, We are Laura and Victoria Topping.
Aug ’11: Dance Piece
On a dancefloor everyone loses themselves, breaks control apart, and becomes free. It’s an urge, an endless, ecstatic and circular transition between stability and instability. Based on the desire for a state of ecstasy, club culture and self escape, this physical live art piece exposes the acts and actions of a night out and looks at dancers in a rave as art.
July ’11: Shit London book launch
Book launch of the new “Shit London” book
These are photographs of the unintentional human comedy that surround us in the city. It’s the flotsam and jetsam of city life , the overlooked minutiae , the tragic , the grotesque and the basest of base. It’s the adapted posters , the dirty joke on the back of a van , the mispelt signs , the glory hole in the public loo , that weird shop down the end of your road and the knob graffiti strategically placed for maximum effect.
June ’11: 1day6cities
1day 6cities is an exciting global timelapse project, taking place on the 11.11.11. Involving a network of photographers in London, Dubai, Shanghai, Auckland, San Francisco and Sao Paulo, we will create a unique 24 hour snapshot of this day across six very different cities around the globe.
See www.1day6cities.org for more details
On Thurs 2nd June, the project launched at The Mill Co. Project films and stills from photographers from the cities involved, with live music provided by BangStrokeBlow
April ‘11: Making Marks
Private view and exhibition of “Making Marks” at The Mill Co. Project, thursday 7th April 2011.
It showcased work from photographer Dan Alexander www.danielalexanderphotography.co.uk
March ‘11: The Mill Co Project Opening
Our first, First Thursday event. We opened the doors and exhibited work by Mill Co. and project residents, inc projections, films and prints.