DISCIPLES OF DESIGN #UCLAN

It was an honour to be one of the 20 guest speakers at ‘ Conference Week 12 ‘ @thedisciplesofdesign in Preston #UCLAN this week. University of Central Lancashire. UK

• Communication Not Just Decoration •

Lecture and Q & A with a full house of students from 1st Year Graphics to MA

from all design and Illustration diciplines.

Thanks to course director Andy Bainbridge for his Superb de-decoration video reveals for all talks.

 Check > The Disciples of Design

#communicationnotdecoration #prestongraphics #conferenceweek12 #cutitoutstudio

JUDY @ SUNDANCE

JUDY BLOOM FOREVER Premiere at SUNDANCE

So excited to have our work for this documentary premiere at Sundance this weekend. Sadly we can’t share any of the animations until it’s general release on Amazon Prime Video in April.

It’s been getting sterling reviews all round.

Hollywood Reporter

Variety

The Wrap

ps. This image was not used in the documentary.

DOPE MAGAZINE

DOPE Magazine is a quarterly newspaper published by Dog Section Press.

They distribute free bundles of DOPE to anyone who could use a little solidarity, to sell on the street. Working with a network of radical bookshops, social centres, homeless organisations and independent volunteers, theycurrently distribute 30,000 copies each issue. This is worth around £90,000 to our street-vendors – or £360,000 annually.

FLASH STUDIO PRINT SALE

We’ve dug deep in the planchests and located lots of vintage Cut it Out Prints, posters and artworks. opening the studio tomorrow, Friday (11-7) and Saturday (12-3) 17th December for some festive art purchasing. Contact the studio for more details.

JUDY BLUME FOREVER

I’m very excited to announce Griff and I completed a series of in show animations for the forthcoming ‘Jude Blume Forever’ documentary for Amazon Prime. Also premiering at Park City Sundance Film Festival in January 2023. We worked with directors Davina Pardo & Leah Wolchok under executive producersBrian Grazer and Ron Howard. We won’t be able to share any of the images or sequences until next spring but there’s currently more info here..

Reawakenings for Guardian Books

Always an absolute please to work with Sara Ramsbottom at The Guardian. She’s selected me wonderful briefs for a few decades now, always intriguing, unusual and has let me take the lead with the ebb and flow of ideas generation. This being a fine example. The essay, by Maggie O’Farell that this artwork is based on is here.

ONLY WHEN I DREAM

The Coningsby Gallery, Fitzrovia, London

Martin O’Neill - Ignis & Ventus

Martin O’Neill - Ventus

Gina Glover

Carol Sharp

Sam Falconer

Only When I Dream

Ignis and Ventus

In what signals something of a return to his printmaking roots with ‘Only When I Dream” Martin is exhibiting 'Ignis' and ‘Ventus', a series of works created by combining hundreds of botanical etchings, plant encyclopaedias and horticultural engravings in large scale analogue collages. The finished works conjure imagined worlds of strange conjunctions and psychedelic geographies populated with a vivid tropical flora in which a menagerie of strange and wonderful fauna coexists.

 

'Ignis' and ‘Ventus' is a signed and numbered limited edition of hand finished Giclee prints created from high resolution scans of original large scale analogue collages.

On Landscape Review of the Show

Link to Show info at Coningsby Gallery

EMMY NOMINATION

Exciting to announce that the Documentary we created the titles and in show animated sequences for has had an Emmy nomination for ‘ Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking’. 2022. Work for Fredrick Douglass In Five Speeches created with Griff. See our reel here.

ONLY WHEN I DREAM

Only When I Dream is a group exhibition curated by Beth Taubner and Andrew Coningsby.  The exhibition is comprised of fine art photographs, original illustrations and one video and sound installation, all of which resonate with the exhibition topic. Artists exhibiting include renowned fine art photographers Morag Paterson, Ted Leeming, Claire Rosen, Gina Glover and multi-media artist Carol Sharp along with esteemed illustrators Sam Falconer and Martin O’Neill. Only When I Dream will stimulate the viewer as we ask them to go on a multiplicity of journeys with us.

The Celtic, poet, theologian, and philosopher John O’Donohue spoke about “the invisible world” that is constantly intertwining what we are able to know, and see. Sharing his philosophy, this exhibition is about memories and dreams, real or fabricated.   Dreaming can be moments that crystallize yearnings, ethereal and romantic. They can be stories that we conjure tied to memories from the past, or the imagined past, therefore nostalgic and informed by memory or longings. We might experience highly sensory and visual waking or sleeping dreams where the mind and imagination travel to distant lands, or just next door. Our dreams might conjure untamed places in the physical world we have been to and long to experience again.   O’Donohue said that a dream is a sophisticated, imaginative text full of figures and drama that we send to ourselves. These concepts are explored through the multi-dimensional language and visual landscape of Only When I Dream.

Private View: Wednesday, 31st August, 6.00pm – 9.00pm. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to andrewconingsby@coningsbygallery.com

Further information about each artist and their work can be found at https://www.leemingpaterson.com/ , https://claire-rosen.com/ , https://www.carolsharp.co.uk/ , https://www.ginaglover.com/ , https://www.samfalconer.co.uk/ and https://www.cutitout.co.uk/

OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Oxford University Museum of Natural History 

I recently completed a 8 metre ( 27’) timeline collage for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Oxford University Department of Paediatrics.

 The artwork will be displayed in the department permanently later this year but is being shown at various events throughout the year. I also created a series of department specific illustrations. Explore the full length mural here.

 It’s first mobile outing was at a dinner event at Oxford University Museum of Natural History earlier this week.

PAPER SCISSORS ROCK

LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION

Thursday 9th June 2022

Hosted by BA (Hons) Illustration and Visual Media, explore the work of industry guests at LCC’s upcoming Design Show.

Join us as we welcome illustrators and designers Amber Anderson, Martin O’Neill and duo Crispin Finn in conversation with Senior Lecturer Leigh Clarke.

This event will explore the work of our speakers followed by a discussion on the ways in which traditional methods steer new methods of production and digital imaging.

We’ll also discuss how paper, pencils, pens, scalpels, scissors, and printmaking can activate campaigns and commissions.

LINK TO THE EVENTBRITE TICKETS HERE ( FREE EVENT )

PROPERCHIPS

Very proud to have been invited to be a collage collaborator on this animated commercial for Proper Chips. PROPERCHIPS ‘Done Properly’ featuring Alan, the flying Cowboy. Alan guides us through the journey of the production of a lentil chip and the quest for perfect flavour combinations in a minute long extravaganza. It was so much fun working with the many artists and animators involved and of course under the superb directorship of Jack Brown..

Production: Blinkink

Director: Jack Brown

Producer: Melissa Venet, Leah Draws

FREDRICK DOUGLASS: IN FIVE SPEECHES

FREDRICK DOUGLASS In Five Speeches

Stills from a new title sequence created with GRIFF for HBO Documentaries

FREDRICK DOUGLASS - In Five Speeches > TRAILER

@HBODocs

In #FrederickDouglassHBO, actors Nicole Beharie, @ColmanDomingo, Andre Holland, Jonathan Majors, Denzel Whitaker, @JfreeWright remind us how the anti-slavery activist’s words about racial injustice still resonate deeply today. Premieres February 23 at 9PM on @HBOMax.

Chronicles - 60 years of The Cheiftans

It is with a sad but proud note that I share this artwork. Earlier this year I worked closely with Stan Roche & Gary Baker at Universal Ireland and Claddagh Records on this fantastic project. Chronicles 60 years of The Cheiftans’. Yes 60 - a band. It was such an insight to explore their gargantuan archive of brilliant photos, band ephemera and beautiful historical LP artworks. Paddy himself was directly involved in the artwork up until his sudden death just before it’s release. I absolutely loved the fact that he had to approve the artwork for real at home as he had no internet. The Cheiftans were firmly on the radar for me growing up in the 80s in NW London’s Irish community. My mum said- ‘sure we saw them many times in Kilburn and The Shrine and your godfather played with them..‘ It was a real honour to be a part of their rich history contributung to this fitting tribute to Paddy and the band. It’s on all formats including a plush ltd edition triple vinyl in Racing Green. Check it here at Claddagh Records. O’Neill’s March #thechieftans #thecheiftanschronicles #cutitoutstudio

NW10 1991

1990 - Harlesden London NW10 - Bakerloo Line - Fooling with my first Camera (Pentax K1000) Taking cliche / stereotype photos with Ray, Jim, Lil’ Paul & Paul M. Blunt Teenagers

TOMMY X TIMBERLAND

Some images from last Fridays live event at Timberland HQ in London. “To celebrate the coming together of two global icons, Tommy Hilfiger and Timberland, and inspired by the mission of making better together, we are collaborating with two sample artists in-store, reviving materials from the past to create a new vision. Our artists will produce one of a kind collages, bringing to life the partnership purpose as an exclusive gift with purchase. “ I spent my teens working and couriering around here. It was cool to be back some years later making some work for this great collaboration. Thanks to all the team at Exposure London, Timberland and TommyHilfiger for a great day. And sorry about the mess.