Setting up Alex’s show

Really exciting. Everything is looking great.

Alex’s show – behind the scenes

I dunno what just turned up for Alex’s show – but it looks exciting!

Alex Chinneck

Happy New Year everyone. Thanks to everyone who came and had a look at the Jiggery Pokery show. Hope you all enjoyed it. If you ever need to speak with the girls from Jiggery Pokery, you can contact them at hello@jiggerypokery.biz.

The Nook has loads of exciting happenings ready for 2010, including shows from Julia Pott and Chrissie Abbot to name a few. But first up is exciting artist and sculptor, Alex Chinneck.

Alex is a 25 year old London based artist, whos sculptures perform illusory tricks in pursuit of simple yet mesmerizing visual pleasures. Inflexible materials are manipulated beyond their apparent capabilities to transcend their material nature and distort our perception of what is physically possible. He’ll be showing four new sculptiures: Pick yourself up and pull yourself together, From the knees of my nose to the belly of my toes, Loopdeloop, and Kaboom.

Jiggery Pokery exhibition…

Some images from Jiggery Pokery’s wonderful & magical exhibition.

Thanks Dip for the shots

New Telegramme site…

Original nooksters, Telegramme have launched their new site. Check it out – it’s real nize.

Jiggery Pokery private view…

Thanks for everyone who came down to the private view – it was brimming with peeps! The show looked great – here’s some pics from the launch.

Jiggery Pokery – This Friday

Pop down and have a gander.

Jiggery Pokery…

This month we welcome the Jiggery Pokery girls. Lauren and Anna, who live in a labyrinth of Alice in Wonderland-esque imagery; a witty world of trickery and tomfoolery. Magicians of life-size illustration, they create handcrafted fantasies laden with glitter and kitsch using a mixture of art direction and set design. With the wave of a wand they will conjure up an enigmatic feast for
the eyes.

They met in Brighton whilst completing an Illustration Degree, but inspired by London’s energy Lauren and Anna returned to their hometown to embark on their Jiggery Pokery journey. Commissions galore, they have occupied their time producing work for major companies, such as Fallon and the BBC for BBC Blast, Nike and Showstudio and ongoing work with Chrissie Macdonald on the Orange ‘I am’ campaign. Live events include a Roller Disco for Vauxhall, a drawing competition at Nike Town, a human-operated fruit machine installation at the V&A. They have been contracted to create numerous window displays for companies – including Firetrap, Topshop, Nation of Shopkeepersin Leeds, Rest is Noise and YCN’s 72 Rivington St window. Editorial projects include a fashion story for Volume Magazine and a conceptual Perfume piece for Androgyny Magazine.

The collaboration of these two explosive energies provides consistently innovative works of art. Obsessed with trashy glamour and psychedelia, kitsch and ‘bad taste’ combinations of colours, materials and subject matter, Lauren and Anna clash their intriguing styles to form inexplicably stunning compositions. These two will stop at nothing to produce a bewildering visual display illustrating their outstanding abilities both individually and as a collective.

Lu Flux new collection…

Good friend and previous Nook contributor Lu Flux has released her Spring/Summer 2010 collection name The Eco Life of Riley. It’s amazing.

Putting up the show…