A few weeks a go I got to take part in an event At Bury Art Museum.
In conjunction with the Wonder Women festival, there was a costumed life drawing class, pop up exhibition and zine stall. I got to take part in all three!
Got to sell a bunch of my own zines as well as some of my favourites like Shape and Situate and The Chapess and BAM's own zine!
My remaining All Of Them Witches pieces got to be shown in the gallery for the night
and I chose to dress as Josephine Baker for the life modelling part
As part of the Wonder Women, Radical Manchester Festival (events running over Internationals Women's Day, in the first two weeks of March 2016) Bury Art Museum is holing a costumed life drawing class, pop up exhibition and zine stall, and I'm taking part in all three!!
Happening Friday 11th March....
The event itself is free (with the life drawing costing £6pp including materials) running from 5pm-8pm.
Copies of my zine Brown Girl, alongside Shape & Situate, The Chapess, Poor Lass and many more will be available to buy.
A selection of my All Of Them Witches collection will be there for one night only!
For more information go HERE.
Happy October!
One of the best months of the year and to celebrate I am doing a special offer on my All Of Them Witches collection!
If you buy some original art, you get a free poster AND zine.
If you buy a poster you get a free zine!
All can be found HERE!
I don't often post on this blog, I think it's because I post more on the Sugar Paper Zine blog and don't want to feel like I am repeating myself.
But seeing as this is mostly a news place for the art and zines I make I thought it might be nice to see what I have done in the past year (and because I am procrastinating!)
Zine wise I put out the usual, two issues of Sugar Paper and an issue of Poor Lass zine.
I also made a couple of more personal zines. One called Brown Girl, which was mostly about, me being a Brown Girl. It had a great response, so much so I am currently working on issue 2, that I want to feature more voices than just my own! the other one I made was a mini one page zine I did during International zine month about Becoming an Artist.
A zine first for me was making a zine mostly digitally! So no cutting and sticking or hard copy! this was the zine I made for the All Of Them Witches project I did at Halloween. It was good to learn new skills, but for now I am happy with a pair of scissors in one hand and a glue stick in the other!
Yiiikes! had another outing, creating an upside down living room for Baduncle at Sounds from the Other City and winter saw The glowing world of Snotboobs make another appearance.
I started on a new series of felt works that was a severed head with Medusa plaits under a bell jar, sadly life/being slow/other projects got in the way of completing this but 2015 is the year.
As mentioned the zine for All Of Them Witches was part of a project I did at Halloween where I made small felt depictions of 12 of my favourite fictional witches!
My favourite commission of the year was to do the cover of Weezer's Blue album! (sadly I am rubbish at taking/remembering to take decent photos of my work!)
In 2015 I look forward to more zine making (I want to write one about people's favourite spaces) finishing projects I start, making more art and noise with Yiiikes!
It might interest some people that I got modern and joined Instagram in 2014 and post pictures of my socks and snacks and cats and the art I make! Go follow me @seleenalavernedaye
Has everyone heard about my new zine?
It's part of the All Of Them Witches project that I launched on Halloween.
The zine is full colour and features images of all 12 witches I created out of felt!
It arrived last week from the printers and it was a bit different for me as it was the first zine I made NOT using my trusted cut 'n' paste method but mocking it up on a computer, and sending it off AND getting it stapled, what a luxury!
Although it was a lot quicker to make then I thought it would take me (learnt new skills, yay!) the whole process took a lot longer than I thought it would and I don't think I'll be giving up cutting and pasting anytime soon!
The zine is the bargain price of £3, limited to a print run of 50, and can be bought from HERE!
Halloween saw me launch some new art, All Of Them Witches.
A.O.T.W is a collection of 12 fictional characters who have all been witches at some point, rendered in felt form!
From Winifred Sanderson to Elvira, Willow Rosenberg to Grotbags and lot's more in between.
The original art (4x4" felt pieces) are available to buy, alongside an A3 art print and zine of all the works!
Get them HERE!
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