Half-handed Cloud & HFP in Pictures!
Click thumbnail to view image. All pictures taken by Julie Rafalski. Thank you Julie!
Half-handed Cloud and HFP SOLD OUT!
Wow, what started out as an experiment for Half-handed Cloud and the HFP became a totally SOLD OUT show! The email was ringing off the hook, there were people outside hoping to get in.. and those who did get in really made it a fantastic night for us by jumping in with both feet and braving a barrage of signs and music.
We began in the vestry, where punters passed through two halves of a covenant heifer to receive the first screenprint of the limited edition poster. A parade followed, through processional spaces to a brightly lit chapel. After this first set we emerged into a dark church where, behold, the poster was glowing in the dark! Lights on, and a picnic was laid out and the second print was done. More lights and the rest of the church was revealed, and our team of uniformed ushers transformed into a full band to play a set of new songs.
Thank you to all who came and made it a great night. And thank you to the band (L2R): Kerry Yong, Ping (hfp), Efe, John Ringhofer (HhC), Gavin Wright, Jon Haines, David (hfp) and Gaby Haines. More pictures and video will follow!
Art Review: “Now Buy This” HFP James Hobbs print
Leading art magazine Art Review has highlighted a stunning print we commissioned from James Hobbs in their January/February edition, in a section entitled “Now Buy This”.
James Hobbs took two adjacent frames from a 16mm film that captures the turbulent tide at Kilnsea… and enlarged and reproduced them as a cyanotype. Two identical diagrams have been overlaid in a hot silver foil. (Oliver Basciano)
James Hobbs
Kilnsea: In Obsolescence
Cyanotype with silver foil debossing on 400gsm Arches Aquarelle
Edition of 50
£120
James’ print is one of three editions we commissioned and exhibited at Christie’s Auction House. The prints are available individually or as part of a 9 x 5in cloth bound portfolio entitled ODDE.
Julie Rafalski’s screenprint series ‘Some People from the Encyclopaedia of Architecture’ crop out the grand projects and restore the humanity of the people who were intended only for scale. (note: There are five different images in Julie’s edition. Click here to view them all. We will ask you for your selection after payment.)
Lisa Peachey applied successive waves of screenprint, including portraits of her own eyes, in this meditation on truth and seeing. The blind debossing ‘Look You, This is a True Story’ titles the print and adds a tongue-in-cheek stamp of authority.
The first 20 of all three editions are available as a set in this beautiful cloth bound portfolio for £276.
ODDE Portfolio, £276
‘Special Works School’ accepted at Kandinsky Library, Centre Pompidou
Last year we became involved with a number of artists and writers in the Special Works School project, founded by James Wilkes and Heather Ring. It’s a collaboration based on a camouflage school based in South Ken during WW1. The first publication (published by Special Works School) has been accepted by Kandinsky Library, Centre Pompidou through the efforts of member Manu Luksch. It includes a version of the Trench (Bold, Italic) print recast for offset litho and digital print, which is based on dazzle ship technology.
Two works acquired by the V&A
Two of our screenprints have just been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their permanent collection.
Royal Poster (left aligned) and Imperial Poster (fully justified), are both works from our An Unknown Soldier series, which mediatates on the meaning of a memorial to an unknown soldier in the age of DNA testing. Does he now embody our desire to ignore the past, rather than remember?
We used three bespoke fonts to evoke the anatomy of trench warfare and, using old-fashioned paper sizes, we alluded to call-up posters, papers, and martial instruction manuals. The block letters are topped with patterns redolent of security envelopes. Royal Poster (Left Aligned) is red and silver on turquoise paper and reads, ‘Thee must hebeas n corpus fur tet corps un see’, roughly translated, ‘you must have a body for this body of men, I see’. The fluorescent yellow, cyan and silver Imperial Poster (fully justified) reads ‘Let nuh great unborn pre-empt nuh dead’.
As well as the National Art Library, the V&A Museum has a wonderful study room where people can look at the extensive collection of prints and drawings without an appointment. You can tell as soon as you walk into the Sackler Centre that this is an institution engrossed in contemporary artistry and craftsmanship, with a thriving events programme.
Many of our prints and publications have been acquired by major collections:
Tate
University College London
Chelsea College of Art
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Winchester School of Art
De Bijloke, Ghent
Trykkeriet, Bergen
and now the Victoria and Albert Museum, ensuring that however poorly we maintain our toaster, our work will avoid destruction.
Royal Poster (left aligned)
Imperial Poster (fully justified)
Half-handed Cloud & HFP show 19th Jan 2012: Buy Tickets Now!
Half-handed Cloud and Henningham Family Press proudly present a live music and screenprint show, with unreleased songs!
Date: Thursday 19th January 2012
Time: 8.00pm (performance starts promptly at 8.30pm)
Venue: St Barnabas Church, Shacklewell Row, Dalston, London, E8 2EA
£5 in advance inc. limited edition poster, (£6 on door)
This one-off show will take place in St Barnabas Church, a recently reopened hidden gem in Dalston. The band will take the audience through areas usually inaccessible to the public, playing songs from the extensive H-hC back catalogue and printing a limited edition glow-in-the-dark poster as we go. You will be whisked through the Old and New Testaments with us, singing, printing, eating and drinking, like some sort of Dada Sunday School. The show culminates in a set of previously unreleased songs.
This show is timed perfectly for that moment just after Christmas and New Year when you’ve been back at work for a few days and you’re feeling a bit aimless. No problem! Sitting ready on your mantlepiece will be the tickets you bought in December for the H-hC/HFP live show! Click the button below now and become slump-proofed!
HFP collaborate with Print Club London, Thurs 1st Dec
Print Club London asked us to join them on a cover version: Long-time member Caspar Williamson (Flying Machines) has just published a book called ‘Reinventing Screenprinting’, and Rose Stallard (breed) has illustrated a limited edition of 100 dust-jackets printed by Print Club and Henningham Family Press. Our part in this was to foil deboss (or ‘block’) Rose Stallard’s cover illustration in shiny silver. We’ll be at the launch, showing them off and talking to people about how to get something foiled with us. The perfect process for book covers and invites! Click here for our new Studio Price List which includes prices for foil debossing (blocking).
Book Launch
Thursday 1st December
6.30pm – 9.30pm
Print Club London, 214 Brick Lane, E1 6SA
rsvp@printclublondon.com for invite to private view
HFP Studio Pricelist just uploaded
Our studio is where we make our own art, but it is also where we offer our skills in Binding, Screenprinting, Foil Debossing (blocking) and large format Inkjet printing to other people. Here is a link to our brand new and improved price list:
Bookmark it in your browser! Print it out and file it carefully under HFP! Print it out and add your own greeting to the front cover in biro to make an alternative Christmas card for your friends and family!
These are guide prices, we do bespoke quotes for each job, so fear not if you have special requirements.
We are also currently visiting design studios and architects (doing a sort of CPD presentation) to show examples of work we’ve done in the past, and to inspire gregarious commissioning. We are adding dates, so get in touch to book us in December and January.
HFP do high-end print for Solipsistic Pop 4
People often come to us when they need screenprinting and foiling done to a really high standard. Because we are artists we share the same concerns about quality as the people who commission us. The Calverts co-operative have the same attitude to using the best materials, processes and best-practice (they’re not new to being Green). They asked us to do the screenprinting for this Solipsistic Pop issue which they were doing the litho and digital printing for.
We did a glow in the dark screen layer on sheets of postcards Calverts had pre-printed with litho. Then we screenprinted black onto seeded paper, giving really good coverage despite the heavy texture. Finally we printed white onto cobalt blue paper; screenprinting is by far the best way to print white onto coloured paper. We did 1000 of these, including the A2 folder ready for die-cutting.
More about SP4 here
Austerity Measure features in Christie’s Video
See Ping* explaining a bit about the Austerity Measure at this year’s Multiplied here!
