August 5th 2009

Line-Up Confirmed

All 40 projects have now been confirmed, and the countdown to create the work is well and truly on. Over the next 5 months the artists involved will be thinking, sketching, experimenting, making, doing and everything in between to come up with their final piece for the exhibition in January.

We’ll see installations, sculptures, moving image, books, posters and lots more besides before we start to fill the gallery at the beginning of 2010. From now on, this blog will document how all of the contributors are getting on, giving you a behind the scenes look at how things are coming together for the grand unveiling.

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June 10th 2009

New Partner!

Hvass&Hannibal have had a change of heart on who they’re going to work with for the project. They’re now set on Anne Werner who is a Danish artist, educated from the Islandic School of the Arts and from the Technical College of Copenhagen studying tecnical pattern cutting. She collects old crafts and DIY books from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s and a lot of her work draws on tecniques she finds in them.

They’ve known Anne for a long time, and we really love her colorful, crazy work. So they are looking forward to getting started on this and seeing what’s inside her head and how it will melt together with their own ideas.

Their plan is to make is a giant wall carpet or drape, using different colours and materials. Experimenting with textures and compostions in a huge hand-sewn image. The fabrics will vary, from pieces of old clothing to hand dyed or woven bits.

They hope “it will look like a mix between the remains of a tablecloth after a wild 17-hour party, and a more saturated version of the bayeux carpet.” If it’s half as good as it sounds it’s going to be spectacular.

March 18th 2009

Hvass&Hannibal; & Tove Nielsen

Having admitted defeat on trying to get Phil Collins to work with them, Danish duo Sofie and Nan na, who go by the name of Hvass&Hannibal have settled with someone much closer to home. Sofie’s grandmother is an excellent knitter and the makings of a bespoke knitwear collection are on the horizon. Pictured is a recent record cover they have designed for Turboweekend. More knitting soon.

Hvass&Hannibal