Xynthetic Carbon & Chemicals Show #1

I was meaning to write this blog last Sunday but I have been pretty busy working on paintings for my solo show @ The Arches which is now just under 4 weeks away, but better late than never. Below is the board I did for the Middlesbourgh Show at The Kitch-en Gallery which has a subtle pattern making the board just seem yellow from a distance, simple but I'm planning to work up some fresh detailed decks for the next show down in Nottingham @The Art Organisation opening on the 21st of March.



But I've got plenty of photos of the opening day so I will let them do most of the talking, The day started with me leaving Glasgow at 6:30am so that I made it to Middlesbourgh in good time to help set up.



Eventually found the gallery to be greeted by Gav Strange or garth as he later became known as, Jonny, Pone and I got to meet Dan and Norm from Waste which was cool and a massive thank you to Norm and his folks for letting me stay over.





This is how the wall of Lomo photos was looking when I got there, the guys were at the gallery until 1:30 in the morning sorting them out. Hardcore.



Gav was incharge of the labeling.



Dan was sorting the prints into their frames.



Pone was drinking a jug of tea.



And Norm continued to work on his deck.



The guys had done so much that at first I was puzzled what to do but managed to help Gav set up the decks, and I hung the prints and Jonny filmed the process for the next Xynthetic vid.







This was one of my favourite pieces by Sums



The toilet walls were covered with brown paper so you could have a sketch whilst on the throne, believe it or not I did a drawing.



Gav left a message for all who visited.



Some of us headed back to get our glad rags on whilst Gav and Pone stayed to sort out all the finishing touches and get what looked like the worst chippy I have ever seen.



And so the night kicked off with a good turn out and pretty much all the goodie bags went.









All in all a good and fun night and if you want to check out the Lomo photos then check out the xynthetic Lomo sets as well as seeing more photos of the night via the Carbon & Chemicals pics.



I returned to Glasgow the following day to continue working for my up and coming solo show as well as hooking up with my friend Niall+ to get profile shots for an interview I did for the next issue of Kingdom Magazine





My good friend and talented illustrator Azz finally got ichat working so I managed to have a good catch up with him and he was telling me that he is a featured artist in the new book tilted 'The Art Book'. it's a massive book and he is right at the front with a full page. Congrats mate and be sure to check his work at the Glasgow Art Fair next month also. But it's back to the studio for me for some serious hardcore cutting and I'm sure the next update will be of the opening of the Arches show, come check it out if you can.