Short-list 2012: Anna-Maria Desogus Memorial Award

Anna-Maria Desogus 1968 - 2008

It's already a year since I set up Anna's memorial award, Anna died of cancer on 9 February 2008 (she was 39 years old). Last week I went to Brighton University 3-D Materials Practise BA to select the short-list from this year's group of second year students.

The criteria are: a) Makes a strong visual statement  b) Innovative and creative consideration of materials, subject matter or form  c) Thinking ‘outside the box  d)  Shows humour and / or awareness of social issues  e) Presenting / exhibiting the work in a novel way 

See more images of the Shortlisted Students 2012 - Anna-Maria Desogus Memorial award 

Jessica Elcock - Three Dimensional Postcard from Milan

Maya Helgadottir - Elements of Nature

Isabel Gosdaere - Reco Cam

Stephanie Holmes - Lady of Shallot

Tsuwan Hsich - Narrative Design

 

Jane Robbins - Prints

Yellow House artist Jane Robbins is showing at new venue 5 Warleigh Road this year, aptly named 'The Garden House'! I caught up with Jane at the private view, fantastic to see her new prints 'Bird Branches' 'Flower-pots' & 'Kitchen'. Her use of beautiful snippets of collage & newspaper cuttings is just gorgeous - i'd love to have them all! Particularly exciting is that Jane created these as part of a commission with us at Art House Licensing, so they will soon also be available as greeting-cards (published by The Art File). The range is called SNIPPETS - a total of x 9 lovely designs coming soon!

Bird branches

Flower pots by Jane Robbins

Kitchen Utensils - print by Jane Robbins

The Garden House - 5 Warleigh Road

Vintage garden tools (i bought the little red ones!)

Paul Thurlby Alphabet

Alphabet Book by Paul Thurlby

Available at the South Bank Centre Shop

Mr Paul Thurlby

Z for Zip

We've had such a busy month! With three websites to run, two blogs, two Linked-in accounts, two twitter accounts and two facebook accounts.....it's all keeping me very busy. One of the highlights this month was meeting artist Paul Thurlby whose funky alphabets have been creating a lot of attention. His 'Alphabet' book, published by Templar, is a true find for any lover of typography, alphabets, and indeed fans of thinking outside the box. We bought a copy at the SouthBankCentre shop, signed by Paul to my two children 'You're Awesome!' - Thanks Paul :)

behind the scenes - steven lenton

don't miss our artist of the month feature, behind-the-scenes with Steven Lenton, at Art House Licensing. A popular character artist with an established collection of card designs with Lagom and his first publishing deal behind him, we caught up wih Steven and found out a lot more about him!

Steven Lenton - character artist and animator

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behind the scenes with Olivia Villet

Olivia in South Africa!

Red Riding Hood - Louise Rowe - Tango Books

We're delighted to be working with talented South African artist Olivia Villet, read our new feature taking a peek 'Behind-the-Scenes' with this successful children's illustrator. It's a small world, it turns out that friends at Tango Books published Olivia's 'My Day, My Way' back in 2005. Sheri Safran & David Fielder at Tango publish excellent pop-up and novelty books including the amazing 'Red Riding Hood' by Louise Rowe, one of Olivia's recent purchases! See Olivia's other children's books here...

breezy days

Hannah Cole - Breezy Day - paintings

Hannah Cole - Breezy dunes - print

It's a breezy day in Brighton today! Hannah Cole's paintings delicate and charming paintings are one of our most popular pieces at Yellow House Art, understated with great control of marks - we are big fans! Available as prints or paintings....