PICK ME UP

Pick Me Up is the annual graphic arts festival at Somerset House. It is a platform for up an coming graphic arts and design graduates and practitioners to come together and show off their talents. Talent being the optimum word as this year's show is fabulous! Over the ten days the show runs for their has been a nail bar, Aardman Shaun the Sheep making workshop and even a pop-up illustrated burger bar by Zoom, the 12 year old comic making prodigy.

Today I lent a hand with CMYK embroidery. Using the cheap, offset newspaper colour printing technique of four colours- cyan, magenta, yellow and black- the artist Evelin Korsikov has manipulated her yarns to follow this basic colour principle.

Everybody chipped in to attempt to finish a huge version of the pick me up logo.

She also kindly embroidered me at it!

The exhibitions of work support artist collectives, such as Fatherless the American screen printers and Coffee Club, who all met, surprisingly, at a coffee bar. These artists support each other to promote their freelance work.

There is also an exhibition of works by newly established illustrators and graphic designers. Called Selects, this exhibition gives a platform to some amazing artists such as the ever jovial Daniel Frost, whose little mr Ben-esque characters couldn't fail to put a smile on your face and the wonderful Katie Scott who presents her own versions of botanical drawings.