Next Wednesday (23rd October) will see the launch of Reframe an exhibition organized and hosted by Free Word of 9 comics by 9 nine artists from the UK, Turkey and Algeria. My humble offering will be joined by works by the UK's Hannah Berry and IYLA aka Ed Hillyer. I was asked to be a part of the project by Paul Gravett, thanks Paul! Here's the promotional stuffs:
Pioneering artists from three contrasting countries unite to create an innovative exhibition of new work exploring
our contemporary attitudes to Europe. Bringing together new voices from
Turkey, Algeria and the UK, Reframe invites nine emerging artists to
use their distinctive styles and viewpoints to 'reframe' perspectives
through a series of new graphic short stories that examine the cultural,
social and political dynamics between Europe and each of the
participating countries.
Here's a sneeky peek at my contribution:
And here's a link to an interview I did for the Free Word website: http://www.freewordcentre.com/content/2013/10/wr-daniel-locke/
(I also designed the logo)
Here's a sneeky peek at some of the drawings I made for Helix. The show opens next Friday (25th) and goes on until the 30th.
David Blandy and I will be talking about the work we made together with Adam Rutherford, live at 1.45 on the Monocle magazine podcast, radio thingy this coming Saturday, if you fancy listening in, it'd be lovely to have you.
This past year I've been working with artist David Blandy and scientist Adam Rutherford on a digital graphic novel called 'Helix'. The piece considers the conceptual link between the creative process and the history of DNA. I've made all the illustrations as well as collaborating on the story and content. The work is going on show at the GV Art Gallery in London town from the 24th of this month.
A wee while ago,
The most excellent Lizz Lunney and Joe List contacted me to ask if I'd be interested in contributing a strip to Hic & Hoc's Humour Anthology, the UK Edition. I said hell yeh! And now it's here, it's real and includes work by some of the coolest names in British comics.
Kristyna Baczynski, Becky Barnicoat, Dan Berry, Fred Blunt, Gareth
Brooks, Clark Burscough, Abe Christie, Stephen Collins, Joe
Decie, James “Couk” Downing, Rick Eades, Jonathan Edwards, Liz
Greenfield, Isaac Lenkiewicz, Dan Locke, Gary Northfield, Luke
Pearson, Philippa Rice, Jack Teagle, Donya Todd, Timothy Winchester, Ben
Wright. Cover by Jon Boam.
A few months ago I mentioned that I been working with David Blandy and Dr Adam Rutherford on a illustrated history of DNA, I thought I'd pop one of the finished illustrations up for you to have a gander at. The finished work will comprise 80 pictures in digital graphic novel called 'Helix'. It's going to be launched in October, but my deadline is rapidly approaching so I've been chained to the drawing board these past few weeks!
Tomorrow I'll be at this years Elcaf. I've made a new comic for it all special like. If you're in the Bethnal Green area do come along, it'll be great to see you.
Ahoy,
As of next Tuesday (April 30th) I'll have a wee collection of drawings in this show:
I'm stoked to be included in this show, which culminates on the 4th with a day long celebration of sequential illustration and a comics fair. Respect to Oliver Jelt at the Mall Galleries and huge thanks to Hannah Berry who pointed me in Olivers direction.
Here's one of the pieces that'll be included in the show:
Hello there,
The mighty Amy Douglas and Tom Buchanan are up to their old tricks yet again, they've only gone and arranged another exhibition of the finest contemporary box art this country has to offer! This time around the show is being hosted by the excellent folks at Into You, St Johns Street London. The show goes up on the 1st of April and runs through to June, so there's plenty of time to head over and check out what promises to be the most exciting collection of cuboid art in the northern hemisphere!
Here's a pic of me piece:
It's called 'Through the Night and Through the Day He Gave Chase'. It is a work of DRAMA and THRILLING SUSPENSE!
Ahoy there,
For the past couple of weeks I've been working with David Blandy and Dr Adam Rutherford (with the Wellcome Trust and Lighthouse) on their new new project 'Helix'. At this early stage it looks as though the finished artwork will be an online comic/illustrated publication that tells the story of DNA through the eyes of one of David fantastical characters.
The development meetings for the project have been fascinating. Some of the topics under discussion have included; spider goats, glow in the dark cats, chimeras and synthetic biology. Over the course of the coming month or so David will be making sense of all these things and I'll be providing the drawings. I'll keep posting as the project develops.
Tonight (26th Feb.) Together with David and Manga artist Inko I'll be taking part in a round table discussion about art, science and science fiction at Lighthouse, oh do say you'll come.
Here's a page from my sketchbook that I doddled during one of the meetings:
And here's a link to an interview I did for the Free Word website: http://www.freewordcentre.com/content/2013/10/wr-daniel-locke/ 
