Flyposting#2 contemporary gig posters
Some fine hand-printed contemporary gig posters are to be exhibited as part of Flyposting#2.
The show, now in its second year, has given rise to some additional satellite exhibitions this time around, which will be held in tandem with the main event.
Organiser Tony Baker let us have a peek at a few and it looks like the standard will be pretty high.
‘All of the works have either been commissioned by or approved by the band or artist,’ says Baker ‘and they’re all limited edition and signed,’ he adds.
Everything has been screen printed with a minimum of three colours ‘and they’ve all been created out of love’, says Baker.
‘There’s a real community among poster artists and a thriving collectors market,’ says Baker who cites collectors markets at SXSW in the US and domestic exhibition Screenadelica.
The satellite exhibitions will include works by the likes of Graham Pilling (Army of Cats), Horse, Stuff & Things, Jacknife, Petting Zoo Prints & Collectables, and Luke Drozd.
There will be one collection dedicated to the now defunct Chumbawamba, focussing on ‘graphic artifacts dug out from their illustrious archive’ according to Baker – hopefully that brick suit, and some kind of recreation of John Prescott’s egging.
The band has been consulted, Baker tells us, and there will be new posters based on lyrics as well as old ones drawn from the bands archive.
So far across the whole exhibition 25 UK and international artists are involved.
Flyposting#2 takes place from 1 March – 11 May within the Gallery in Flannels, 68-78 Vicar Lane, City Centre, Leeds, LS1
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Just to point out a rather serious error in this piece — none of the work done by the artists in the exhibition is ‘unofficial’, no do poster designers simply turn up to gigs and sell their unofficial merch.
This is bootlegging and I think I speak for all the gigposter artists implicated that not only do we not create bootleg merch, but we’re also very much against it!
It’s naughty, it’s bad, it’s cheeky, it’s disrespectful to other people’s intellectual property, and it’s illegal.
The majority of gigposter designers work hard to cultivate healthy, official working relationships with the bands they create work for.