Erica Buettner – The Book of Waves.
8 years ago I created the artwork for Erica’s first LP ‘True Love and Water‘ and now am very proud to have created the artwork for her second – The Book of Waves.
Beautiful music created by an amazing woman.
I built some 3D layered sets to create depth in the collages which were then photographed.
The CD comes with a fully illustrated inlay booklet.
Shortlisted for the Victoria and Albert Museum Illustration Awards 2018. Editorial Category.
Title: Virtual Vatican Client: Garage Magazine Writing : Cintra Wilson AD: Remi Paringuax Medium: Hand Made Collage
I was given free rein to interpret Cintra Wilson’s vivid and twisted fashion writing and create 5 dystopian future retro realms as imaginary VR holiday destinations. This piece honed in on the intensity of papel & ecclesiastical fashion through the centuries and my research involved buying 20 or so books on the history of Catholicism, the Vatican city, sculptures and statues. I also researched religious vestments, robes and relics – and the intertwined and surreal miarrage between fashion and religion. Although I’m not practicing now, being brought up in an Irish Catholic community in London definitely helped with the understanding and research of this artwork. I had an intuition for the subject matter and even drew from a personal collection of prayer cards and holy relics inherited from dearly departed relatives. Full feature at VICE. All shortlisted V&A artists. It’s Nice That.
Cover collage illustration and some process shots for Helen Thompson’s The Unthinkable. The lives of nine people with the worlds strangest brain disorders and what their brains can teach us about our own. Published by John Murray.
Recent collages for Oxfams new online second hand goods shop. Campaign. Click for Karma. Agency: Y&R London
Handmade collages for The Doyle Collections Luxury London Hotels. The Bloomsbury, The Marelbone and The Kenstington. Created to celebrate their winter festivities across brochures, invites and menus.
The Doyle Collection is a collection of eight Irish family-owned luxury and urban hotels in London, Dublin, Washington DC, Cork and Bristol.
Jackie Parsons and I have shared studios for the last 15 years. 10 of which in the current space, a converted shop in a former 1930s seafront Hotel. The space has grown and been shaped organically as we’ve worked on a wide range of creative projects. The space works for us in many ways. A busy freelance studio for 2 practices, an adhoc gallery, an experimental laboratory and an archive and library of published oddities. The shots here are by Alun Callender for the newly published book STUDIO by Sally Coutlard. The photographs were extremely timely as a few months later a flood from the flats above destroyed a large part of the space. Photographs © Alun Callender.
Cut it Out Studio. Martin O’Neill & Jackie Parsons. 2017. More studio shots by Alun Callender © for the Book STUDIO by Sally Couthard.
Editorial Illustrations for British Airways Highlife Magazine. Parisien Tickets, Fossil Hunter, The Bridge That Never Was, Aurora Borealis, Geoff Travis – Rough Trade.
Some monthly spot illustrations for Paul Simons Weather column in British Airways in flight magazine HighLife.
Binske Luxury Goods Store. Colorado USA.
A commission to create four large scale collage murals for luxury Cannabis goods store Binske in Colorado USA. The artworks are being used as in store murals and on a range of luxury products banded into Fire, Earth, Water & Air themes. The hand made collages were created from classical etchings & watercolor reproductions from vintage zoological, botanical and natural history archives.