Frieze art fair opens –
Here’s Charlotte Higgins from the Guardian Taking about Frieze… Gavin Turks Bikes and David Shrigley’s Tattoos. Click to read the article here.
Products by David Shrigley, and the new box set featuring Gavin’s Bikes (see previous post) are available from the Polite Shop (shop.politecards.com)
Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian.
Gavin Turk - “Les Bikes de Bois Rond” - new postcard box set.
The Frieze Art Fair starts tonight and we are pleased to launch a new box set with Gavin Turk at the show. The set includes all of the bicycles from Gavin’s new work “Les Bikes de Bois Rond” - beautifully reproduced as postcards. The sets are available at freize this week, and will go on sale at the end of October at select Polite stockists and online at the Polite Shop.
Save the Arts!
For more information about Save the Arts, please visit http://www.savethearts.org.uk.
Over a hundred leading artists including David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Anthony Caro, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Richard Hamilton, Bridget Riley, Antony Gormley and Tracey Emin have joined the campaign to make the case against the proposed 25% cuts in government funding of the arts.
The campaign was launched with this brilliant animation by David Shrigley.
We’re looking forward to launching Magda Archer’s new book – What the stars buy! next month, and are posting a few previews here over the next few weeks.
What the Stars Buy! is a collection of over 100 found shopping lists by Magda Archer and and the celebrities - she’s pretty sure - they belong to. Click here for more info or to order a copy.
No.3 : Dr. Hillary Jones
We’re looking forward to launching Magda Archer’s new book – What the stars buy! next month, and are posting a few previews here over the next few weeks.
What the Stars Buy! is a collection of over 100 found shopping lists by Magda Archer and and the celebrities - she’s pretty sure - they belong to. Click here for more info or to order a copy.
No. 2 : Pixie Lott
We’re looking forward to launching Magda Archer’s new book – What the stars buy! next month, and are posting a few previews here over the next few weeks.
What the Stars Buy! is a collection of over 100 found shopping lists by Magda Archer and and the celebrities - she’s pretty sure - they belong to. Click here for more info or to order a copy.
No. 1 : Paul McCartney
We’re pleased to welcome ROYAL/T in LA to the list of lovely places you can buy Polite products in the USA - They stock a range of our David Shrigley cards along with the Cocaine and Heroine salt and pepper shakers. Royal/t is café/shop/artspace which includes LA’s first Japanese style cosplay café their website is here – http://www.royal-t.org/
When he’s not here at the Polite office, talking to our customers, Mike likes to spend his time curating exhibitions – This year he’s been working on ‘Unrealised Potential’ at the Cornerhouse in Manchester which runs from 17th July - 12th Sept.
The show aims to explore the creative potential of artists unrealised projects and features contributions from dozens of artists including:
Featured artists include: Artgoes, Artlab (Charlotte Cullinan & Jeanine Richards), Franko B , Edward Barton, Megan Bell, Eddie Berg, Bert & Ganddie, Monica Biagioli, Paul Anthony Black, Garth Bowden, Andrew Bracey, Roisin Byrne, Jane Chavez-Dawson, Norman Clayture, Conor McGarrigle, Contents May Vary, Benjamin Cove, Nick Crowe, Neil Cummings, Oliver East, Volker Eichelmann, Tim Etchells, Doug Fishbone, Leo Fitzmaurice, Yuen Fong Ling, Sue Fox, Mark Garry, Liam Gillick (Realised), David Gledhill, David Griffiths, Janet Griffiths, Richard Healy, Harry Hill, Clare Hope, Len Horsey, Dave Hoyland, John Hyatt, Mark Kennard, Jessica Lack, Laurence Lane, Little Artists (Darren Neave & John Cake), Leigh McCarthy, Roger McKinley, Jim Medway, Jason Minsky, Tom Morton, Neil Mulholland, Robin Nature-Bold, Hayley Newman, Franz Otto Novotny, Owl Project, Graham Parker, Simon Patterson, Adele Prince, Magnus Quaife, Brian Reed, David Shrigley, W. David Titley, Surplus Value, Beata Veszely, Jessica Voosanger, Cecilia Wee, Richard Wilson, Christine Wong Yap, Stuart Wright, Kai-Oi Jay Yung
Two new postcard books by Redstone Press.
Our friends at Redstone press have published two new large-format postcard books.
MAYAKOVSKY features 22 postcards representing every facet of the poet/artist/activist’s restless creativity.
ALPAHBET features 25 postcards.
“Here is the alphabet imagined as never before. Choreographed by the beautiful dancer Milca Mayerová into a brilliant photo-ballet in twenty-four hypnotic poses. Each move in the dance is made to the visual counterpoint of Karel Teige’s astonishing typographic music: as angular as jazz, as syncopated as Stravinsky!”
Visit the Redstone Shop to by copies of these and other beautifully printed editions:
