Pick Me Up 2012

Little bit late with this post, but getting there in the end. Had to queue up for around 90 minutes to get into the blasted thing as I chose to go on the last late-night Thursday viewing before it finished. I don't remember it being as popular the year before?? Its popularity must be coming on in leaps and bounds. There were a few stand-out pieces for me this year, those are the ones I'll post now...

MIMI LEUNG
www.mimileung.co.uk
Really playful, love this style of illustration. And amazing dynamism and movement caught in the last few... Love it.

SARAH MAYCOCK
sarahmaycock.co.uk
These loose prints are rather nice...

AND...A BOOBY ALPHABET
I love this! But forgot to take down who it was by! DRAT. If anyone can fill me in I'd be totes grateful!

David Shrigley at The Hayward.

On the hottest day of the year so far I ventured to the Southbank ... to go and wander around INDOORS at the Hayward Gallery and see the David Shrigley exhibition. Even though it was inside, I thoroughly enjoyed it and even tret myself to a 99er! (Though it set me back a whopping £3!! I can hear myself coming out with, "In my day...").

Shrigley takes a sideways look on life with an incredibly irreverent sense of humour that comes out in his loose and crudely drawn illustrations – they are all the more charming because of this scribbled look and feel. I read recently that he does at least 30 sketches a day, which perhaps explains the vast number of sketches. His animations were great too, and his sculptures, very interesting.

Here are some photos from my trusty iPhone, with a few 'borrowed' from this blog: http://lovingmyjetlag.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/recommendation-of-week-david-shrigley.html

ps: The insecty sculptures remind of a couple of scenes in Beetlejuic :)
























































































































I also wandered into Jeremy Deller's exhibition and went back in time to the 90s. Despite going to see Shriggers, the only souvenirs me and the fella picked up were from Jeremy's exhibition. He tret himself to a tshirt, and I splashed out on a postcard.