NOISELAB installation complete!

Here are a few images of a piece i created for arts charity Noise Festival, at the manchester pop-up shop, NOISELAB. The window installation was made from a series of large scale drawings, which were then cut out into seperate components, suspended and pieced together.
I havnt thought of a name for the piece yet, but i am considering 'Big Bertha' as a homage to the 80's childrens animation.

Check out the Noiselab website for more information about the organisation

www.noiselab.co.uk

or check out www.noisefestival.com/andrewsingleton

'Dust Clouds in the Eagle Nebula' Featured on Design*sponge

Follow the link to read the article.

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/08/andy-singleton.html

Noiselab Window Installation

I have been asked to create a window installation for the Noiselab pop-up shop in Manchester city centre. Installing on the 16th of August. The finished work will be posted soon.

'Dust Clouds in the Eagle Nebula' Paper exhibition

Photography by Richard Sweeney

'Inspired by photography from the Hubble space telescope, Andy Singleton attempts to explore the scale, intricacy and beauty of our universe. Choosing the medium of large scale paper cuttings, he hopes to inspire the same sense of awe that we feel when we look into the deepest regions of space. '

This is the completed hand cut paper installation piece, 'Dust Clouds in the Eagle Nebula' currently being exhibited at the Bowery gallery, Headingly, Leeds.

If you would like further information on the show and the location of the gallery, please follow this link: http://www.bowery.org/

or contact me directly at andy_singleton1@yahoo.co.uk

Cut Paper Exhibition, The Bowery Gallery, 8th of July - Oct 22nd

I will be exhibiting a new large scale paper cut work 'Dust Clouds in the Eagle Nebula' at the the Bowery Gallery. I will be exhibiting along side paper artist Jayne Wilson.
Opening night is Thursday 8th of july. Please come down to see the works, for complimentary refreshments, and live music.

For further details please visit thebowey.org website or feel free to contact me directly.

Singleton Sweeney & sons Gallery

After temporarily acquiring access to the empty shops in Wakefield, myself and Richard Sweeney have transformed the space given to us into the Singleton Sweeney & sons Gallery for last Wednesdays artwalk. To see some the works on show just click here

WAKEFIELD ART WALK: Shop Front Exhibition, Wednesday May 26th

One again its the Wakefield Art Walk. Me and Richard will not be in our studio on Wednesday evening, as we are opening up the empty shop front space (formerly cash converters) to exhibit new large scale works.

Please come down and see what we have been up to!

We are in 102/104 Kirkgate in the town centre. Please follow this link for more details about the art walk or feel free to email me at andy_singleton1@yahoo.co.uk

Iv attached an image of a piece that is being exhibited.

hope to see you there

Ex Virtus T-shirts on Sale

Finally the Ex Virtus T-shirts have arrived and are now available to Buy from my Etsy Shop

Hope you enjoy

Paper Cut Exhibition, The Bowery, Leeds 8th July - Oct 22

I have recently been asked to create a large scale paper installation piece at The Bowery Gallery, Leeds. The work is going to be a freestyle paper cut on a scale i have never attempted before. Stretching roughly 15 meters in length, the cut is going to take inspiration from images of the Universe.
For now that is all i can tell you, but i can give a little taster of the work to come. The images below are a series of cuts i created over the last few days in preparation for the large work.

paper cut test sheets


Cosmic dust (test 4) 594mm x420mm



Nebula (test 3) 594mm x420mm


The show opens on the 8th of July and continues until the 22nd of Oct. More details to come.

Empty Shop Front Exhibition

Westgate Studios in association with East Street Arts presents: Empty Shop Fronts Exhibitions

This Wednesday (28th April) the scheme kicks off in Wakefield with 3 shop fronts transformed into gallery spaces.

98 Kirkgate – Julie Clarke exhibits ‘Thousand Cranes’

88 Kirkgate – Alice Bradshaw exhibits ‘Blown Light Bulbs’ with the PEEP Gallery

102/104 Kirkgate – Richard Sweeney and Andy Singleton show paper sculptures and a large scale mural.

Much of this exhibited work has been specially developed in response to the space.

Please join us for the opening night on Wednesday 28th between 5pm and 9pm as we venture between venues to witness the city’s first shop front exhibitions.


http://westgatestudios.blogspot.com/

OPEN STUDIO. 31st OF MARCH

Westgate Studios is once again opening its doors for the public for the Bi-monthly event Wakefield Artwalk on the 31st of March. If you get chance please come down for a look round, to have a chat and a splash of wine!

cheers

Leaf commission complete

The work is a private commission, the customer wanted a smaller version of the sycamore from the 'wind in the trees...' series. which i created at the weekend.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysingleton/sets/72157623472811968/

Mr Richard Sweeney now lives in my studio

Last month a certain Mr Richard Sweeney agreed to share my studio space at Westgate Studios. Over the last month Richard has been settling in and settling down to some brilliant and inspiring paper folded work, some of which can be seen at the Affordable Art Fair in London 11-14 of March. http://www.affordableartfair.com

You can find out more about Richard Sweeney at his website www.richardsweeney.co.uk

Flyer Detail for COLLECT exhibition

COLLECT exhibition

Collect, a paper based exhibition curated by artist Vicky Lucas. Collect is part of the wakefield art walk, find out more at http://www.artwalk.org.uk/. i will be exhibiting 5 pieces created specificly for the show.

New year, new studio, new work!

2010 is here and to celebrate i have moved out of the bedroom and into a new space, at Westgate Studios in Wakefield.
I am already working towards a group exhibition for Wakefield Art Walk, put together buy the artist Vicky Lucas, on the 27th of January. I will update further soon.
Also expect to see a new paper cutting project come into fruition, a brand new website, new commissioned works and im sure many ideas and works i dont even know about yet!

Happy New Year.

i hope its a good one

'Oi, Big Head!!'

Me mam found an Load of A1 flipboard paper pads in a £1 shop. amazing price. i decided to have a go on it last night. This big headed fella was what popped out.

Ex Virtus Back On Track

Over the last few months, we at Ex Virtus have been struggling to move things along. We have not been able to give the Project the time has been asking for.
Things have taken a turn for the better in the last week or two and we are now looking for a Dec 1st release of the Website with 5 designs ready to buy in time for you to get your presents for Christmas.

Here is an early drawing of one of the designs, 'child on the river'
keep watching this space for more news of the launch.

Wall mural for Smithfield, Manchester completed under Ex Virtus alias

'Smoke Machine'

8 days work.
Looks pretty cool.

Check out the shop, opening late October, Smithfield, on tib street. Below Hedonist salon.

You will also be able to pick up Ex virtus t-shirts from the store.

LAZERIAN NEWSPAPER

The lazerian design team have packed up and gone to London town to display their collective talents to the rest of the world at the prestigious 100% design show.
To help show off their talents they have lovingly put together a newspaper outlining the Lazerian way of life, which i am pleased to say has a small feature on the wall piece i created for the studio a few months back, a lovely surprise to say the least.
As far as i know Lazerian are making waves at the show already, featuring in a number of newspaper and magazine articles.

go to the lazerian blog on http://www.blog.lazerian.co.uk/?p=323
to download the e paper and get a look at the articles and some tasty lazerian design.