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22 Jul 2009 11:07:28
Three visiting lecturers who teach illustration students from the University of Bedfordshire have enjoyed the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle.
They have recently been out on the town in London with some of the country’s most well-known rock stars supporting them.
The trio are Rachel Gannon, Chloe Regan and Fumie Kamijo who form a three-woman collective called INK Illustration.
Carl Barat of The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things and Drew McConnell of Babyshambles helped to close the trio’s first solo exhibition - the collaborative Invisible Library project - at Tenderpixel Gallery in London.
They performed tracks from their own back catalogues that have been particularly influenced by literature in a one-off free show, as well as reading from seminal books which had inspired their work.
The exhibition, which ran for a month until Sunday, 12 July, transformed the gallery space into an imaginary library filled with books that have been alluded to in novels, but have never actually existed until now!
INK chose 40 imaginary book titles from the Invisible Library Blogspot and illustrated their covers.
Along with the Real Fits collective, they also invited best-selling writers and novelists, including Iain Sinclair and Peter Blegvad, as well as the high-profile cultural and musical figures, to write either the opening or closing page of these 40 titles.
The collaboration continued throughout the exhibition as gallery attendees and workshop participants were invited to temporarily ‘sign out’ these library books and carry on writing the narratives within.
This meant the once blank pages of each book were enlivened with imaginative poly-vocal stories by the close of the exhibition.
INK Illustration are recent graduates from the Royal College of Art and they already have a permanent display of their work in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The group works individually as well as collaboratively on a wide range of commercial and personal projects including curating, editorial work, retail, museum installations, craft work and exhibitions.
And the London-based trio will be even more heavily involved with teaching the University’s illustration students in the 2009-10 academic year.
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