Doodle week

Over the past month or so co:lab have been busying themselves with the development and consideration of their own personal projects. These have of late found both Jono and Andrew missing the liberation and immediate satisfaction of simple, cold, hard drawing. As such, and with Beto off visiting the homeland, the pair challenged themselves to a doodle week. Here are the results (Jono left, Andrew right).

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Both unexpected and with seams of promise, the week appears to have been fruitful. Prints deriving from some of these scribbles will almost certainly be forthcoming and doodle week may well become a regular event.

North Rock YULE prints online

North Rock Gallery has got the Yule exhibition prints from the CO:LAB Boys (Andrew, Beto and Jono) available to buy online (links below)...get yourself some Shetland artists work now before it goes :)

Buy Andrew Morrison - Tanngnjostur og Tanngrisnir screenprint on North Rock Gallery
Buy Beto - Lego Snowflake screenprint on North Rock Gallery
Buy Jono Sandilands - Ganzie screenprint on North Rock Gallery

Photos by Mark Sinclair Phatsheep Photography.

North Rock Gallery YULE Exhibition

Co:Lab have been busy over the past month preparing for two exhibitions over the festive season. The first of which kicks off on the 5 November at North Rock Gallery in Lerwick town centre. More info coming soon.

North Rock Gallery Blog

S is for square

Produced over the course of a month for exhibition at this year's VunkFest Music and Arts extravaganza, co:lab's latest project is a six colour, cross pollinated, geometric delight.

Recalling the overprint collaboration of co:lab's debut outing, each of the three final pieces in the SC&T project bare the creative stamp of all three co:lab members.

The prints are built up from a simple geometric template – a triangle within a circle within a square. In week one we each tackled the square (leaving a space for a subsequent circle to occupy). At this point Jono, Beto and Andrew all chose two colour as a signature to carry through the project and ensure some kind of continuity through the set.

At the end of the first week we came together with the fruit of our labour and left with each other's as a stimulus for week two – the circle. Both this and the triangular element of the project differ slightly from step one in that we each, from that point on, had the freedom to bleed one of our chosen colours out into the preceding shape and through the artwork of our fellow co:labbers.

We moved up a print size with this project and following week three's triangle we were faced with finding a new source for acetates. Up until now we have been printing these out on Jono's A4 printer but with SC&T's maximum working size of 350mm x 350mm we had to look for outside assistance. Fortunately Beto happened upon a recommendation for www.copyexpress.co.uk who were extremely helpful and provided A3 acetate we could patch together with amazing next day deliverly!

Jono cunningly managed to bypass the acetate stage by producing his contribution in cut paper which could be placed straight onto the coated screen when exposing.

Printing went fairly smoothly and it's been rather pleasant washing out the screens in the summer sun even though we've had issues with the hose and managed to burn out the motor on one of our pressure washers.

SC&T was hanging in The Shetland Museum's Learning Room between the 9th and the 11th July alongside many other artists contributing to this year's VunkFest. The museum also played host to a series of short films on the Sunday and of course you can read about all the great bands playing that fantastic weekend here. For more information on all the going on check out www.myspace.com/vunkventures

 

Red & Blue

The Red & Blue set of prints was produced during the two week residency of the pop-up shop down at the Toll Clock shopping centre. The theme this time around was red and blue with the criteria being that we use red and blue only and the artwork fits to A6. Below you can see each Co:Labbers response:

Andrew Morrison:

Beto:

Jono Sandilands:

Red & Blue - Pictures Leaked!

During the two weeks of the temporary Vunk Fest Pop-Up Shop being open at The Toll Clock Centre, Lerwick; Co:Lab have been busy working on a new brief: Red & Blue.

They have produced a set of miniature, affordable prints using only the colours Red & Blue to do so.

The picture above is just a teaser, but the artwork for this project will be unveiled at the Vunk Fest Pop-Up Shop this Saturday, 15th May, on what is the very last day of the shop - so be sure to pop down and pick up a fresh print!

Day one at the Vunk Fest Pop-up Shop

The Vunk Fest Pop-up Shop is now open for business!
Thanks to everyone who came along on the opening day and an extra special thanks to all those who bought prints!
Among those on sale are the results of three unique projects produced in the first third of this year, previously seen only on this blog and until now unavailable for purchase. Many of the runs are extremely limited and as each of these prints are selling for just £12 (with £2 from each going towards funding the Vunk Fest) we're hoping to see more than a few sell out by the end of the fortnight. If you've not already made it along come find us in the Toll Clock shopping centre down by the back entrance. We'll be there until 15th May!