NOIR is now online

Thanks again to all that came to the opening of NOIR, the exhibition is on this week and next, until Saturday 21st March (open Tuesday- Saturday, 11am-6pm). 47 Rivington Street, London, OLD STREET TUBE.

For you online-lovers, the show is now online, click on the links below:

* ONLINE STORE (including screenprints from £80 and the new bags for £15)

* ORIGINALS (including the embroideries, flags and brocades)

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Bags have arrived!

The other day, I received a very large box, i yipped with excitement, my bags (fairtrade) had arrived.

Following the mailout I did yesterday about the Stella Dore show, a few folk wondered what these bags look like. Well, today it was sunny down Brighton beach, so I took my new shopper/ tote/ bag and paraded along the promenade!





The bags are:
MATERIAL: Cotton calico, dyed using traditional pigment dyes
SIZE: 38w x 43h - handle length 63cms
PRINT AREA: 28 x 28cms
LIMITED EDITION OF: 200

£15 each

And they are fairtrade accredited, so the cotton is from farmers who have decent working conditions and get a better price for their work.


Stella Dore have started to take pre-orders for them, so if you'd like one, you can either wait til the night of the 5th (email nina@stelladore.co.uk to get on the guest list!),or email stella@stelladore.co.uk to pre-order one.

Noir Private View 5 March

PRIVATE VIEW 5th MARCH 2009

For guest list & press enquries please contact nina@stelladore.co.uk
For buyers enquiries please email stella@stelladore.co.uk

SHOW RUNS FROM 6th MARCH - 21 MARCH
Stella Dore Gallery, 47 Rivington St, London, EC2A 3QB 0207 739 3004

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Stella Dore presents NOIR, my London solo show.

The show features new work based on film noir; femme fatales, innocents and sinners. Expect to see vintage American flags, brocade and a very special antique coronation flag of Agness Deyn.
'Beautiful Nightmare' ed. of 10. 26 x 18cm

I will be releasing two tiny screenprint editions of 10, made with the magic bleaching technique on vintage 48 star flags. Bitter sweet and Beautiful Nightmare are like originals, but pocket sized.

My new black tote bags will be launched for the show, printed with an image of Marlene Dietrich, the bags are Fairtrade in a limited edition of 200.

If you haven't already seen the new Stella Dore gallery in the urban art hub of Rivington Street, their raw brick walls are the perfect setting for the new work, they also have a tempting lounge-come-print shop downstairs.


'Bittersweet' ed. of 10. 26 x 18cm

Stella Dore
47 Rivington Street, London (Old Street Tube, exit 3)
EC2A 3QB

Private View is Thursday 5 March

Image above : 'Numb' Bleaching on Vintage American Flag 148 x 83 cm

FOR GUEST LIST & PRESS please contact nina@stelladore.co.uk

FOR BUYERS enquiries please email stella@stelladore.co.uk

Hope to see you there xp

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Free postcards until March 6

Whats the value of something, that is free? To me, free is the best, the value of something that you are given is surely greater than if you just buy it off the shelf.

Why am i rambling like this? Well, to celebrate the opening of my 'Noir' show at Stella Dore- which opens to the public on March 6th, I decided to do something nice, and free.....

I am giving away a FREE postcard pack with every order through my Etsy Shop. (The postcard pack is worth £7.50, just incase you wondered!) The pack is a lush professionally printed affair of 7 cards.

Have a mooch at my shop here, www.pamglew.etsy.com


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eco bags

ok, so anyone who knows me knows that I'm more than abit obsessed about bags.
I have a vast collection of eco totes to avoid the supermarket checkout people from telling me off ..... (they tut if you ask for a plastic one!)
which is fine as I hate plastic bags, they are ugly, dig into your hands and don't ever biodegrade. So I am pretty amazed that we still use them atall.

So ............ I have designed my very own tote bag, it will be launched at 'Noir' my solo show at Stella Dore, London, heres a sneak peak... they havent actually arrived so this is a kind of preview!
If you'd like to pre-order a bag, please contact stella@stelladore.co.uk.
Stella Dore

MATERIAL: Cotton calico, dyed using traditional pigment dyes

SIZE: 38w x 43h - handle length 63cms

PRINT AREA: 28 x 28cms

LIMITED EDITION OF: 200

£15 each

And they are fairtrade accredited, so the cotton is from farmers who have decent working conditions and get a better price for their work.


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cards a go go

A good week.. I had a meeting at stella dore, and took photos and videos of their gorgeous gallery space and started to cunjure up ideas for 'Noir' my solo show there....






.... rough brick walls, rivington street, a little boudoir-like front room/ shop downstairs- its really quite special, so im looking forward to it already, ... still lots to make and do though before the opening night




I received these postcard packs, which I have added on my Etsy shop... so you can now buy them as a slick lickle pack, or individually to send to someone you like enough! they are pics of Decadence, From Within, Night Mare, Night Shade, Glory, Apparition & Fable



Check them out here

Quote of the day

Another blindingly evocative film quote for the day.......


Diane Taylor: [Diane is cuddling with Max as he is driving] Why are we going this way?

Max Cady: Better scenery.

Diane Taylor: What would you know about scenery? Or beauty? Or any of the things that really make life worth living? You're just an animal: coarse, lustful, barbaric.

Max Cady: Keep right on talkin', honey. I like it when you run me down like that.

Diane Taylor: Max Cady, what I like about you is... you're rock bottom. I wouldn't expect you to understand this, but it's a great comfort for a girl to know she could not possibly sink any lower.

Cape Fear 1962

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Noir

OK, So its 2009, its gonna be a good year,

First up is my London solo show titled 'Noir'

I'm the newest addition to the extraordinary and wonderful family of artists at Stella Dore Gallery and am busy working on my show 'Noir' which opens the evening of February 26th, so put that in your diary now....

The work in the show is an exploration of the cinematic imagery of Film Noir. More sophisticated and richer than the horror series, where as the women in the 'fear' work always seemed beautiful but scared, and were basically 'beautiful bait'..... victims....

Times have changed, and America has changed, I'm no longer looking at US as a country run by a loon, no Obama is now in control and I hope the biggest of hopes that he can sort out the can of worms he has inherited, I think he has an incredible job ahead, no one is perfect, and it will take time .. Now our attention is drawn to economy, the money system, banks, corruption and how very fragile our systems are. Corruption, crime, deviousness and winter have led me to watch a lot of Film noir. For it is the movie genre which is set in the darkest of underworlds, dens, gambling joints, seedy clubs, court rooms, its 1940-50s America in the post war era, yet Noir is a seductively delicious feast for the senses.


In quite a reversal, the women in Noir are bad girls; femme fatales, murderesses, adulturers, criminals, hussys.... you get the idea. Dark.

Brocade, flags, and some other surprises will comprise the show.. no more secrets

Check out the 'noir quote of the day' on the homepage:

My current favourite:
"I know you like a book, ya little tramp. You’d sell your own mother for a piece of fudge. But you’re smart with it. Smart enough to know when to sell and when to sit tight. You’ve got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart." The Killing (1956)


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