Carbon & Chemicals Show #2

It has again been a crazy few days, before I begin on the madness that was The Nottingham stop of the Xynthetic Carbon & Chemicals tour here is a couple of commissions I finished recently.



So the Nottingham show opening was on Friday 21st of March so I drove down with all my work the day before to meet up with Gav Strange, Pone and Dan and Norm from Waste at their studio which was a pretty cool place.



Norm with his printing gear on.



Arty farty photo of Pone.

Dan and Norm still had plenty of work to do to get their screen prints done so Gav, Pone and myself headed off to Ikea to get some supplies. Gav may look like he was in a stressed mood but he wasn't really, we were getting a bit carried away in ikea with all the cheap goodies they have giving us ideas for the layout of the show.



We returned to the gallery with frames and candles after a detour to Derby thanks to Pone's navigation skills, time was passing fast but we got all the work out and some of the prints frames ready to hang before Gav and I headed over to his to make a start on getting the photos clipped together.





Prints by Waste




Gav and I stayed up until after 1am clipping Lomo photos together whilst watching the last episode of The Sopranos but I struggled to sleep so I woke up at 4am and finished clipping all 500 photographs together.

3 hours later and it was time to head to the gallery to get set up, which was locked up and we had to wait up in the studios until Norm showed up.



Getting our 'Dragons Den' steez on.



And so the hanging began, with so much to hang and do everyone had a job to do.









All was going so well until a pipe from the the toilets above the gallery burst cause a shit load of water to go all over, thankfully nowhere near the prints or artwork but still. It was strange that Gav didn't seem to show any signs of panic compared to setting up other shows, I went kind of silent for a bit with "WHAT THE F*@k!!!" shouting in my head.





Thankfully it was sorted soon and Nom could start setting up the projector with the 8mm footage played on one of the two brand new DVD players that Jonny bought, he got two cause the first one was broken right after he bought it and then replaced with another broken one. An electric shock or two later and we got it running.



Finishing touches before show time.



The Goody Bags for the first 30 visitors.



Big G dawg labeling the work.



And so we were ready to rock and roll.

The Decks.



Waste Prints



RichT painting



Gav's print



Pone's print



Pone's other print



Deck by Waste



RichT Deck



My Deck



Mr Jago's Deck



Pone's Deck



Pone's other Deck



Deck by Waste


It was not long before the crowd started to get bigger and enjoy the fine beer and wine that was complimented by some classic beats mixed by ED 209.









Some live art was happening as the party continued, Mr Jago, the Waste boys, Pone Gav and myself hit up the wall throughout the night. No stencil work for me sadly so I had to get my sketch on.











The finished product.



Signed



My attempt at a B-Boy stance, see what booze does to you kids.



Gav giving his thanks to the crowd.


Then off to The Orange Tree for even more drinking action and a great way to end the night.

Jonny and Gav showing there was love in the room



Dean and Gaz



Pone and his lady



And so that was the opening night of the second Carbon and Chemicals Show, the next one os only just round the corner down in Bristol at Workshop, hope to see you there if you are in the area. Nottingham was a great show and thanks to Gav's parents and Norm for putting me up for the two nights I was down.