Lionel Freidman Screen Print Edition

Phils been kept busy this week producing this screen print edition. It consisted of 20 prints of three images. For this edition Somerset text laid 300gsm was chosen. It wasn't the easiest screen print in the world to produce as creating a solid colour on a textured paper can cause problems but in the end they all looked beautiful.

The signed and numbered edition is off to London but if anyone is interested in a print let us know and we can forward your details to the artist.

http://www.helloblue.co.uk/index.html

Ben Steers Twitter Give Away Mini Edition....

Yesterday our good mate Ben Steers popped by to collect a mini edition we had produced for him. Ben had offered the  four A4s on Hahnemuhle German Etching as prizes on twitter.  The some people may recognize the character featured in the print as the one Featured in Computer Arts magazine last month in witch Ben produced a tutorial on how to create this vintage looking chap....  

Keep an eye on bens twitter and blog to see what other wonders he produces in the future...  I happen to know there's some good stuff in the pipeline...........

http://bensteers.blogspot.com/

http://twitter.com/bensteers

Anime Giclee Edition.

Last week we produced a very special edition of A4 Giclee prints due to be released in the UK and continental Europe for Anime fighting game fans . 

If your in the know about the latest fighting games you may of seen these characters already... If your not keep your eyes pealed... They left our studio hot of the press to be whisked up to London, autographed by the producers who were over from Japan and then off to some very lucky people.....

The work was commissioned onto Hahnemuhler German etching 310gsm and looked stunning..

"Playground" - Ben Haizelden

‘PLAYGROUND’ A Group Show

Artch Gallery
Mon 28th Feb – Fri 4th March 2011

PLAYGROUND: A space set apart for experimentation and play. Using this imagined ground as a platform for thought, 8 Artists explore the wonder of the wider world through systems of human habitation and ritual. Probing the elegant arrangement of the every day and considering what we have missed.

The Work pictured below was printed by HelloBlue for Ben Haizeldens current London exhibition. Ben is  an artist we have worked with for some time and on this occasion he chose to use Hahnemuhle Photorag Bright White for his pieces. The results were beautiful.

The Show uses a wide range of mediums including sculpture, etching / drawing and video installations.  

Go along if you get a chance.

ARTch, Arch 11, Gales Gardens, Bethnal Green, London

For more information please see the facebook group below

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=191621157526345

Alot of money for not alot....

The cutter blade needed renewing on one of our epsons..... We were in ore when we discovered this tiny piece of plastic with a spring and a blade cost £120+VAT....  What a joke!

Ryan Gander - Invocations of the Blank Page - Spike Island

Running along side the "Maelfa" exhibition currently at spike is the "Invocations of the Blank Page" exhibition that is showing in the project space at Spike Island.

The exhibition uses the blank page as a metaphor for the process of creative expression. 

Helloblue was commission by Spike Island to print the Ryan Gander image and liaised directly with Ryans studio in order to produce the piece that was printed onto a 200gsm matt Symbio blue back stock.

Below is the image and some information regarding the concept. 

 Ryan Gander’s large print from the series Felix provides a stage… (2008) documents the making of his work A sheet of paper on which I was about to draw, as it slipped from my table and fell to the floor (a fleet of crystal spheres, each laser-etched with images of falling sheets of paper). Here, the artist stalls the processes of production, dwelling in the moments before the realisation of a work that itself “alludes to the ‘what if’ of the creative process, and the fugitive nature of thought and inspiration.”

http://www.frankandeunice.com/

http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/exhibitions/invocations

Maelfa Exhibition - Spike Island

Our latest project at Hello Blue has been working with Sean Edwards for the new exhibition Maelfa, in the center gallery space at Spike Island. 

Sean who has been a pleasure to with has produced a truly breath taking show of print installation, photography and moving image, not only capturing the true beauty and detail of his work but utilizing the huge space of the gallery to perfection.

 The works pictured below were commissioned from Helloblue by Spike Island on behalf of Sean Edwards.

Printed at 3 meter sections on a 170gsm photographic paper and then pasted up.

The Maelfa Shopping Centre, Llanedyern, situated on the outskirts of Cardiff, is the focus of Sean Edwards’ latest project. Built around a block of high-rise flats in a council estate in the mid 1970s, the Maelfa centre was once a thriving microcosm of the wider city but declined over the subsequent decades. Edwards undertook a residency in the centre ahead of its planned demolition, making a careful study of the still functioning yet near derelict space, creating a series of new works. Due to the recession, however, plans to develop Maelfa have now been put on hold with the centre still functioning day to day.

http://www.spike-island.org.uk/exhibitions/seanedwards