An absolute pleasure working with the legendary Sara Ramsbottom at The Guardian creating the cover along with three section illustrations and a series of page decrations for this years ‘Best of Season Books Special’. You can never have enough books, old or new.
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Kafkas Trial - An ever morphing collage of Franz Kafka which I’ve been reappropriating for various Kafka events, journals and readings around the world. Here, for the Marathi language literary journal ‘Yugavani’ published from Nagpur, India. The journal is circulated among Marathi literature lovers and is published this week. A wonderful collaboration with the most inspiring poet Prafull Shiledar.
We went over to the US to catch The Stones on the last leg of their Hackney Diamonds tour at Chicago’s Soldier Stadium. It was breathtaking to see my tour visual collages for Honky Tonk Women super stadium sized! With Treatment Studios & Woodroffe Bassett ‘s sensitive animation and beautiful neon tweak the whole four minutes packed a serious punch in the evenings stunning set list. The whole performance and stage show was stunning. Mick, Ronnie and Keith perfoming inside my work to 70,000 fans will be something to remember forever.. The tours last show is this weekend in California.
New feature illustrations for Oprah Daily and AppleNews
“Could these mind-altering substances be the cure for the mental health crisis? We unpack the science, the path to acceptance, and the stunning potential. “
I’m very excited to announce I’ve been working with the uk’s trailblazing Treatment Studio in creating a series of complex collage works animated as live tour visuals for The Rolling Stones’ US Hackney Diamonds tour. The tour kicked off last week and I’m stoked to say the visuals I created were for the timeless ‘Honky Tonk Women’. More info and visuals to follow as the tour unfolds.. but keep an eye out here. A special big up to Tim Booth for the introduction.
THE NEW STATESMAN - Our choice of the year’s essential screen entertainment.
An insight into Muggsborough… exciting new project with Griff and Archie Lachlan / Domestic Science coming soon…
#roberttressell
Evgeny Lebedev’s Brave New World Podcast
Lovely to have my collage on the cover of 300,000 copies of The Evening Standard in my home town London tonight. Celebrating the launch of Evgeny Lebedev’s Brave New World Podcast.
This documentary didn’t go our way in the end but it was fun creating a series of style frames up against a short deadline. Nothing goes to waste in a collage factory though - it’ll come in handy if you never use it..
One of the most diffcult, disturbing but gripping subject matters to wrestle with as an illustrator is suicide. The artwork has to speak for itself whilst remaining almost annonymous. This is my reponse to the peice for Aeon. Massive respect to Andy Sansom for the commission and sterling Art Direction, an absolute pleasure to work with you.
“ In the surreal aftermath of my suicide attempt and amid the haze of my own processing, my best friend visited me in the hospital with a (soft-bound and thus mental-patient-safe) copy of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest under his arm. It was the spring of 2021. A couple months earlier, I had slipped in a tub, suffered a concussion, and triggered my first episode of major depression, and those had been the most difficult months of my life. “
Mala Chatterjee writes for Aeon / Psyche
is a philosopher, writer, legal scholar and associate professor at Columbia Law School in New York. She is also co-director of the Columbia law and philosophy programme and on the board of trustees of the Journal of Philosophy.
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In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. Or text HOME to 741741 to reach Crisis Text Line.
In the UK and Ireland, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie
In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14
Other international helplines can be found at www.befrienders.org
In the coming weeks we’re opening the studio gallery and devling into the artwork vaults for our annual winter open studio.
Jackie Parsons and I will be selling original collages, Giclee prints, silkscreens and festive Cut it Out collectibles along with the odd pile of books and records…
There will also be the return of the infamous ‘What’s Wrong With Christmas’ WordSearch - Limited Edition Homegrown CutitOut Chilli Sauce - Hot Christmastide Wassail & ‘DJ Hertzbarn’ playing Audio Collage Classics.
So even if you’re not shopping come and say hello, attempt to finish the wordsearch and have a glass of something warm.
OPENING
• SAT & SUN 9th & 10th DEC 12-6pm
• THURS 14th 5-9pm
• SAT & SUN 16th & 17th DEC 12-6pm
Cut it Out Studio 9 Marine Court St Leonards on Sea East Sussex TN38 0DX
ps. There are lots of local Seasonal Arts & Music events and openings happening these 2 weekends in St Leonards & Hastings so it’s definatley worth the visit from out of town..
What an honour to be invited to create work for such a magical, historical and inovative space - Handel Hendrix House in the heart of London’s Mayfair.
The story is amazing in itelf.. separated by a wall & 200 years - the homes of two musicians who chose London and changed music forever.
Working with Steers McGillan Eves I created three brand illustrations for the museum after months of reasearch and image sourcing, working directly with museum archivists and also the amazing photographs of Jimmi Hendrix taken by Barrie Wentzell. If you’re in London you’ve got to make it one if your destinations.. Handel Hendrix House
More to come soon…
Wraparound cover collage for WorkMan Publishing in New York.
This is so much more than a book, it’s a ongoing culinary adventure, a series of deep dives into the worlds most interesting and unusual food related phenomena, a movement. Check out their Instagram with 250K followers and a segment on CBS mornings.
“ Wonder is around every corner, and on every plate. The curious minds behind Atlas Obscura now turn to the hidden curiosities of food, which becomes a gateway to fascinating stories about human history, science, art, and tradition—like the first book, all organized by country, lavishly illustrated, and full of surprises. “
Gary Barlow Organic Wines for British Airways
The World is Yours / SketchBook
Concepts, images, tests, moments, ideas, collage sketches.. Sometimes you can create scores of images reacting to a brief, with it just not landing in the right place for the client.. Here are a selection from such a project Griff and I were aksed to work on..
Pages from this summers French vacation sketchbook. Created in the evenings whilst camping in the Pays de la Loire reagion. Made with things found in ‘Vide Greniers’ and Brocantes.
We know our two man animation outfit ( CutitoutXGriff ) has a somewhat slim chance of pipping the likes of The Mandalorian to the post for an Emmy in Outstanding Motion Design - but we’re so stoked to be put forward nontheless..
Team Judy have already been nominated for ‘Exceptional Merit in Documentary FilmMaking’! But we’ll now all have to wait until Jan 15. 2024 as they’ve been pushed into next year. Just 5 more months with fingers crossed!
