Urgent Call for Art Submissions! Plus Ghosts, Cars, and a Perfect Cup of Tea.
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Announcing the November exhibition at : six : shot : gallery
Remy Dean on Illustrating ‘This, That, and The Other’
I enjoy producing illustrations when they are representing the literature of the imagination, for then they present a similar challenge to that of expressive art in visualising the initially intangible. Here are selection of six such illustrations for This, That, and the Other, a series of epic fantasy adventure novels I am co-authoring with Zel Cariad, inspired by research into folklore and fairytales, fuelled by unbridled imagination…
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📢 Currently we have no submissions for 2025 😱 surely there must be more artists out there? Or have our 48 showcases already exhausted all the talent there is!? We know this can’t be true so, if you are (or know of) an artist suitable for a six shot showcase, then what are you waiting for? 🖼️
Any visual artists, illustrators, photographers, who’d like to be featured in one of our showcases, please see our submissions guidelines. Please share this call-out far and wide.
The Signifier : six : shot : gallery officially launched for January 2021 and every calendar month since has hosted an artist’s showcase of just six images linked by aesthetics, techniques, processes, philosophies, formal or conceptual elements. Some of those exhibiting with us are already well-established, internationally renowned artists, others are fresh ‘emergent’ talents, and some have gone on to win major accolades since featuring.
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Recent Signifier:
David Hockney: Making a Splash with the Bigger Picture
David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash (1967) remains one of the most famous Pop Art works of the twentieth-century. It perfectly captures both an era and a moment, with a strong sense of place, and such a wide appeal that it’s still the most accessed painting online at the Tate Gallery website. But seeing a digital facsimile via a screen may not convey the painting’s scale. At 2.5 m (8 feet) square, any figures in the foreground would be almost…
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The Design Clarity of Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Originally training as a silversmith, Wilhelm Wagenfeld completed his design education with the Bauhaus in Weimar where he worked on the design of the school’s first marketed product, the now iconic Table Lamp unveiled at 1924 Leipzig Trade Fair. Bauhaus design principles were already inherent in that debut design, showcasing a combination of materials in its glass and metal components, an inventive use of industrial processes…
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The Man Who Painted Spirits
In the early nineteenth-century, three accomplished British artists worked together to sketch and document an array of spirits. Some of those summoned were the imagined spiritual forms of historical personages while others were the personifications of cosmic concepts. Maybe a few were ghosts? John Varley was a well respected Georgian-era painter and astrologer. He began his training as a silversmith but, while still a…
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The Failure of the Futurists
In February 1909, the Italian Futurists published a provocative, iconoclastic, manifesto in several major newspapers, including Le Figaro. In it, founder F.T Marinetti (over)stated their philosophy and tenets. It was overtly fascist, pro-war, anti-feminist, and declared the belief of beauty in violence, aggression and strife. It was pro-industrial and proclaimed a passion for all things mechanical and powerful. They urged their potential followers to destroy the art of the past by actively flooding or burning down galleries and museums…
Transport: from the archives of Signifier
In this regular feature of our Signified Newsletter, we select a few articles from our archives linked by a monthly theme. Here are three articles about motor vehicles that changed society…
A la Mode for the European Road: La Deux Chevaux
Do you feel the need to drive over a freshly ploughed field with a basket of eggs on the back seat without any breakages? Famously, this was one of the specifications listed in an ambitious design brief for an affordable, adaptable, and easy to maintain car. Also, it had to be suited to rural and urban life, capable of achieving 90 miles to the gallon, with room to carry four adults, wearing their Sunday best hats, plus a 50kg ‘bag of potatoes’…
A Car for the People
Amid the rapid cultural change of the Modern age two nations, divided by the Atlantic and two World Wars, responded with different transport solutions for the ‘common people’. America’s entry into the modern world had been retarded by wars and political upheaval but as the nation strove to find an identity, following its Civil War, it entered a new ‘progressive age’. In the early 1900s it seemed that a reliable peace had settled and this new…
Buzz On, La Vespa!
Not exactly a car but definitely utility transport for the people, in the form of a motor-scooter destined to become the epitome of Euro-chic. The Model T Ford was introduced, early in the twentieth-century as a tool to drive the USA toward prosperity. In late 1930s the KDF was a way to raise war funds, but immediately after the defeat of Nazi Germany it was rebranded as the VW Beetle, a vehicle for international commerce to aid the country’s…
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