100 Shirts
Presented by Spacecraft Studio
DETAILS
Free, booking required
Spacecraft Studio
7/107-109 Whitehall Street, Footscray Victoria 3011, Australia
DATES
Thu 15 May 10am – 5pm
Fri 16 May 10am – 5pm
Sat 17 May 10am – 5pm
Sat 17 May 11am – 2pmBook now
Print Workshop A chance to print with Stewart Russell and Jon Campbell. Sharing the sprint studio with Melbourne bands Hot Tubs Time Machine & Olympic Doughnuts explore the design possibilities of collaborative play. Hot Tubs Time Machine will be performing at the print workshop on Saturday 17th from 12pm-1pm.
Sat 17 May 4 – 7pm
Opening of 100 Shirts Exhibition at Spacecraft Studio
Mon 19 May 10am – 5pm
Tue 20 May 10am – 5pm
Wed 21 May 10am – 5pm
Thu 22 May 10am – 5pm
Fri 23 May 10am – 5pm
Sat 24 May 10am – 5pm
Sat 24 May 10am – 12.30pmBook now
Print Workshop A chance to print with Stewart Russell and Jon Campbell. Sharing the sprint studio with Melbourne bands Hot Tubs Time Machine & Olympic Doughnuts explore the design possibilities of collaborative play. Ticketed Event
Sat 24 May 2 – 4.30pmBook now
Print Workshop A chance to print with Stewart Russell and Jon Campbell. Sharing the sprint studio with Melbourne bands Hot Tubs Time Machine & Olympic Doughnuts explore the design possibilities of collaborative play. Ticketed Event
100 Shirts is a project and exhibition created by Melbourne-based artist and designer Stewart Russell and artist Jon Campbell. Late last year Stewart and Jon set up a weekend of hand screen-printing at Spacecraft Studio in Footscray. They printed Jon’s graphics onto seven metre lengths of a fabric woven in a variety of colour schemes. For inspiration they invited local band Hot Tubs Time Machine to perform in the print room while they printed. Artist Matthew Griffin recorded the act of designing and printing.
A pattern for a collage/patchwork shirt was created and the printed fabrics were cut ready for sewing. This fusion of design, art, and music resulted in one hundred uniquely designed shirts one-hundred per cent made on Kulin Country using fabric woven by ABMT in Melton and patchwork by Sam in Brunswick.
At this exhibition alongside 100 Shirts, Matthew Griffin’s film will be screened, capturing Jon Campbell typographical designs, Stewart Russell creating the compositions and the pattern, all happening with Hot Tubs Time Machine performing in the studio.
Spacecraft Studio will hold print workshops on the two Saturdays. Book in for a chance to join artists Stewart Russell and Jon Campbell for a session of hand screen-printing on eight metre lengths of fabric. Participants will explore design solutions through collaborative play, using the production methodology invented by Stewart and Jon to create the fabrics for 100 Shirts. Additional motivation will be supplied by print room performances from Hot Tubs Time Machine and Olympic Doughnuts.
No previous printing skills or design background is required. And no one goes home empty handed. Everyone can leave with a unique 1.5 x 1 metre section of Jon Campbell’s iconic text works on printed fabric.
This exhibition and series of events suits fashion designers, graphic designers, textile designers, artists, students, printers, art and design teachers, and the creatively curious.
Participants
Jon Campbell
Jon Campbell was born in Northern Ireland in 1961. Based in Melbourne since the age of three, Campbell has been exhibiting since the mid 1980s. His practice has explored vernacular language and popular culture through painting, drawing, sculpture, artist books, neon light works, installation, large scale public art projects and musical performance. His work celebrates the language of the everyday, and is grounded in the slang that Australians do so uniquely well.
Stewart Russell
Stewart Russell’s art practice employs a range of media to examine narratives of cultural inheritance, collective identity, nationalism and social justice. The projects are realised through creative collaboration, co-operation and the involvement of others in their subject and their delivery. In 2000 Stewart Russell relocated to Melbourne from London where he was director of London Printworks (1993-99) to establish Spacecraft, a production studio to realise self-initiated and collaborative projects with fellow artists, architects and fashion designers. Artworks created at his Melbourne studio are found in public spaces, galleries and collections across the world.