Happy Halloween

Tomorrow night we open the first in Cookie's new series of exhibitions. Ours is a collection of some of our favourite international exhibitors from this years shows. The London Police, Alto Contraste, 1010, Veuch, Sepe and Chazme.
The exhibition opens tomorrow 5.30-7pm at Cookie, 72 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow, G41 2AN. It runs for a month.
Not only will there be beautiful work there from all over the world, but there will also be delicious refreshments served.
See you there.

More loveliness for only £25 each from Chris MacFarlane.

Chris MacFarlane made this beautiful installation piece for A is for Etc. He's giffed it up for your viewing pleasure.

A is for Etc opened last Friday. Was ridiculously busy, thanks so much to everyone who made it down. The work is beautiful, Chris has been working so hard! You can view all the artwork and photos here and buy any of the work here. Get down before the 7th of Nov so you don't miss it.

Chris MacFarlane's Collage Du Jour- Day 1,2 and 3.

Chris busy at work with final touches. Show opens tonight 7pm.....

Our next show, A is for Etc, was featured in the Herald as one of the top 3 things "to do" this week, so don't miss it and we'll see you Friday 7-10pm.

Yow! A free Tote Bag to the first 10 people to arrive on Friday the 8th for Chris MacFarlane's exhibition, 7-10pm.

Our pal Joanne has just set up a new design studio at 55 Ruthven Lane, Glasgow. They've got all sorts of plans and ideas and have a wee table at FilmCamp at the GFT this coming Tuesday to talk about it all. Check their website for more!

On the 8th of October we open Chris MacFarlane's first solo show. He is hard at work producing a series of screen prints, collages and sculptures that explore our relationship with type, advertising and signage. Can't wait.

Last week we opened Observations, Susie Wright's solo show. Launch was great, real busy, and the show just looks great, so pristine! You can view all of the photos and artwork at our Flickr and you can view and purchase all artwork at our BigCartel. Lots of great work, all very affordable with risographs and digital prints going for as little as £25 and little handmade books for £12! Also on show is very special, hand screen printed wallpaper that is so beautiful. You have to come see.
Thanks to Magda for great photos- frogblog.ownlog.com

Our good pal FiST has a show opening at Electrik Sheep in Newcastle on Thurs, if you're in the area you should deffo check it oot.

This Friday we open a brand new exhibition from Scottish illustrator, Susie Wright. Launch is 7-10pm, then the show runs till the 3rd of October. She has created screen prints, publications and beautiful wallpaper. Her work is inspired by location drawings from Edinburgh, London, Barcelona and Paris. Wright attended Edinburgh College of Art as an undergraduate, and Central St Martins for her Masters and 2 year residency. Now working as an illustrator and printmaker, she exhibits regularly, lectures at Art Schools across the UK and creates work for the likes of Wallpaper, Carhartt and The BBC.
See you Friday!

Our next exhibition is a solo show from Scottish illustrator, Susie Wright, aka SuzyQ. Get the 3rd September in your diary for the opening.

Amnesty International Live Paint from Recoat on Vimeo.

On the 7th of August 2010, a group of Recoat artists came together to create a collaborative mural at the C Venues during the Edinburgh Festival. The artists involved were Lyken, Derm, Conzo, Elph, Rekor and Syrkus.
We were commissioned by Amnesty International to paint the piece, which depicts themes surrounding the 88 Generation Students of Burma. You can read more about them, the project and Amnesty's work here and see photos of the event here.
The artists also each created paintings that explore and illustrate themes surrounding freedom of speech and specific AI cases. These paintings are also on show at the C Venues. The work will now be displayed untill 30th August 2010.
You can hear a short interview with Syrkus and Graeme from Amnesty on BBC Scotland here, its on at 1:18:00.
Was a quality project and was a huge honour to be involved.

For the Hat Trick exhibition at Recoat, Insa and Inkie got busy with some new Gif action. Nice!
Big Thankyou to Mateusz Sleczka at Pigeon Promotions and Alex Martin Photography at the We Can Never Stop Blog for all the beautiful photos!

Amnesty International invited us to bring together a collective of six Scottish artists to participate in a project during the Edinburgh Festival.
Each of the artists have created a large scale artwork that will be on show at the C Venues from the 31st of July to 30th August that explore and illustrate themes surrounding freedom of speech and specific AI cases. Then on the 7th August the artists will paint a collaborative mural inspired by the struggle of the 88 Generation Student Group, who were locked up in 2007 for up to 65 years for protesting peacefully against the Burmese government. Artists participating are Lyken, Derm, Conzo, Elph, Rekor and Syrkus. Think it will be qulaity evening and is FREE! See you there.

We opened our 3rd birthday exhibition on Friday. Was amazing, we gave 20 limited prints away to the first visitors, launched an international quality exhibition, unveiled murals by Inkie, Insa, 1010 and Veuch, raffled an Insa custom Mercedes and partied hard.
Thanks to everyone who made it down, was so cool to celebrate with you all. You can check out all the photos and artwork here.