RSA open

Hey folks sorry for the lack of posts, I haven't had internet access at home for a while. I have loads of new stuff to show you guys as soon as I photograph it all. In the meantime I had a piece selected for the Royal Scottish Acacademy's open show, so if you are in Edinburgh in the next month please head along and check it out.

In the meantime please have a look at my instagram, I tend to post most sketches, works in progress etc on there. So you can get a sneak peek before it makes it onto this blog.

Please follow the link and follow. http://instagram.com/johncheetham#

Pulling strings

I'm a bit late posting this piece. I finished it a couple of weeks ago but I had to rush it down to an exhibition as soon as it was finished and am yet to go back and take some decent photographs. In the meantime here are some crappy phone pics. It's titled pulling strings......

Watching, waiting for a king to rise

Here is a painting I finished the other week but have yet to get around to posting, until now. I had a lot of fun with this piece and it took a while to finish but I am pretty happy with it......

Sketch the rhyme

If you are in or around Edinburgh this Saturday night do yourself a favour and come along to studio 24 for a night of bangin tunes and the spectacle that is sketch the rhyme. If you have never witnessed str then you are in for a treat, imagine a live drawing quiz show with free styling mc's rapping what we are drawing. Its hard to explain so just come along. I promise you will not regret it. Follow the link for more info.

https://www.facebook.com/events/192300020948053/

Canongate future 40 bash

On Thursday the Too Much Fun Club was nominated as one of the future 40 and so we were invited to create a live piece at the event. Here's a few pics from the night....

Tattoo doodles

I sadly managed to lose a sketchbook after the garden party at Kelburn, I was pretty gutted about this as it had a lot of tattoo inspired drawings in it that I quite liked. Well I just remembered I scanned a few pages prior to losing it, so here's a Game of Thrones inspired piece I never quite got to finish......

 and a quick skull doodle lost to the sands of time.....

Instagram

I have started an Instagram account and will be posting daily sketches, paintings etc, so if you would like to see some works as they progress you can follow me at http://instagram.com/johncheetham

Exhibition photos

Here's a few pics of my work installed at the Black Cube Collective annual show at The Old Ambulance Depot.....

These images were taken when the work was being un-installed hence some of the work being on the floor.

Here's a couple of slightly better pics of the piece I recently posted...

Thanks to those who made it to the show, it was a definite success

New work

Here's a few pictures of some new paintings I have been working on, they were supposed to be quick little paintings to get my hand back in after a few weeks out of the studio but I really got into them and ended up with resolved pieces, no bad thing ......

I really wish I had a better quality photo of this piece but had to rush it down to the exhibition I have opening tonight (see post below for details) so only had time for a quick snap. Will post better quality images soon. In the meantime here's a new cheeky wee blue number....

 And here's a better quality pic of the other new piece I posted recently....

Exhibition opening tomorrow

Looking for something to do tomorrow night....well look no more as there is a fantastic exhibition organized by the Black Cube Collective opening down in Leith at Whitespace gallery followed by another preview at The Old Ambulance depot. I will have a couple of new paintings on show, hope to see you there....

Canongate's future 40

So we just found out that the Too much Fun Club was nominated for Canongate's Future 40.

"Canongate's 40th birthday list celebrates the best of contemporary Scottish story tellers- here are the 40 multi-disciplined creatives they're banking on defining the next four decades"

Safe to say we are pretty chuffed. Go check out the article and see the other great creative types nominated on the link below.

http://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/features/305874-canongates_future_40

and another couple of articles about the future 40 and how they were chosen by some pretty prestigious judges
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/canongate-lists-40-scottish-storytellers-future.html

http://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/features/305779-the_future_storytelling_canongates_40

New wee painting and upcoming exhibition

I haven't forgotten about this here blog but our camera is on the blink so I haven't been able to photograph all the exciting things I have been doing, but trust me I have been busy and lots of new work has been done.
I did however manage to get a picture of this little painting I finished the other week, its not the best quality photo but will do for now......

And I have been asked to exhibit a piece in the Boda open show down in Leith. I will post more info about this soon

Preview

Sorry folks it's been a while since my last post as I have been busy as a busy thing working, painting, TMFC'ing etc but I do have a whole bunch of new work that I will post up here when I remember to photograph the finished pieces. In the meantime here is a wee teaser of a piece I am currently working on, it's a crappy phone pic but you get the idea...

Press coverage

So the lovely people at "we heart" lifestyle and design magazine have done a feature on the "It's a cut up" show and my image is being used on their home page, chuffed. Check it out on the link here and the feature on the show here. Now off to the studio I go.

Exhibition pictures

Managed to get some better images of my work at the "it's a cut up" exhibition.

for more images of the show and some great work by the other artists exhibiting please follow this link. The show runs until the 12th of October so if you get the chance please pop in and have a gander.

Also managed to find a picture of one of the Too Much Fun Club murals we did at Kelburn Garden Party. It was our first time projection mapping onto a  live hand painted image which worked great and provided lots of exciting ideas for future projects. Sorry the image isn't the best quality but it was a festival after all

It's a cut up exhibition now open

Anybody who is going to be in the Leeds area over the next few months please pop along to the Gallery at Flannels to see the "it's a cut-up" exhibition I'm a part of. There is some great artwork on show, and mine :) also all the work is for sale so if you like my stuff there's a great opportunity to own a piece.

Here's a few pics of my work set up in the gallery

 go check it oot

Snake-bite is back

So the wonderful people at Thistly Cross have re-released the delicious elixir that is Snakebite again, this time it will be widely available in Pubs, off licenses and supermarkets so keep an eye out for it. Even if youy don't like it you should buy it just for the amzingly stylish label that someone awesome must have designed :)

More props for the TMFC

Hey folks sorry for the lack of posts I have been busy working at the ECA and I'm also back in the studio which is exciting.
Here's a pretty accurate review of Kelburn Garden Party in The Skinny repping the TMFC
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/live_reviews/305140-kelburn_garden_party_67_jul
if you were't there you missed out, hopefully see you next year.
The TMFC have also been working on an album cover design for the mighty Chester P and Task Force so keep an eye out for that. In the meantime you can listen to a few tunes and see some TMFC artwork that Chester is kindly displaying on the site http://jcabnoxshuz.bandcamp.com/track/home-baked-cookies. And there is also a wee music video that features the same piece here.

Monsters

Just back from England dropping off work for the Its a cut up exhibition and am about to start on a mural job with some of the guys from the Too Much fun Club, I'll try and get some pics and post them up here. In  the meantime here is the last few bits from the cabinet, a bunch of monsters I sculpted out of fimo.

 also I got another mention on a blog feature of the up coming show.Follow the link below

http://www.dexigner.com/news/26757

Getting a mention

Hello folks, so Kelburn Garden Party happened and was mega. Much fun was had, much work was done, all in all a good time. Pictures to follow.
The exhibition I am a part of down In Leeds was pre-viewed on Digital Arts Online, within which I get a mention which is always nice, go check it oot

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/illustration/its-cut-up-exhibition-showcase-photomontage-assemblage/

I have some new stuff to post up as soon as I get it photographed, in the meantime here's a few more paintigs from the cabinet of curious....

Kelburn Garden Party

This weekend my self along with the rest of the too much fun club will be at Kelburn garden party doing some live art, there will be  a few live pieces featuring projection mapping and we will also be doing sketch the rhyme on the Sunday. It should be a good time so I hope to see you there...

 and here's a couple more of the small paintings.....

My artwork on the television box

So I had a message from a friend telling me that they had just seen my mural on TV in a scene from the BBC's series Pramface, and so I checked on I-player and sure enough there it was. I like the idea that thousands of people will have unwittingly seen my monsters :)

here's a few more paintings from the cabinet of curious