Kemistry Gallery is pleased to announce their latest exhibition, Gold, Silver & Bronze. A collaboration with the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Gold Silver & Bronze is the culmination of a term long project by students at the College.

For the past five years  Art Center has brought a group of International Undergraduate BFA students to London for an immersion in British Culture. The trip, entitled ‘London, Ancient and Modern’, aims to join the dots between design and culture.  Art Center students have been privileged to meet Sir Paul Smith, Liz Rideal at The National Portrait Gallery, Rupert Alexander, Jonathan Yeo, Rob Ryan, Neville Brody and Sir Peter Blake amongst other notable Londoners.

As part of this year’s trip the students will be operating an open studio at Kemistry Gallery from the 26th April - 7th May. The culmination of which will be an exhibition of their Olympic inspired observations.  A charming take on the Olympics and London’s cultural heritage, the students have produced a series of prints, featuring knitting marathons, sporting pub signs and acrobatic diving into teacups, among many other illustrative interpretations of the Games.  Limited edition silkscreen prints of all the designs will be available to purchase from the gallery and online.

Art Center College of Design, America’s premier West Coast Design school, is located in Pasadena, California, a leafy town north of Los Angeles. ACCD is a laboratory for innovation and a center of international dialogue in visual communications and design. Since 1930 Art Center has been the place where visionaries are schooled and industry gets a glimpse of what is to come. Art Center is the only design school to be granted official NGO status by the UN, and its alumni include artist Doug Aitken, Film director Tarsem, Product designer Yves Behar, Illustrator Mark Ryden, and VP of Global Design at Ford Motor Company Jay Mays.

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“…How satisfying to receive, still, the good memories of those who were children at that time; who revelled in the Galt toys they played with.”

Throughout a 20-year relationship with toy makers Galt, Ken Garland shaped the way in which the brand grew, in turn influencing an entire generation of children with honest design, playful innovation and desirable products for the post-war family.

Having studied at Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1950s, Ken Garland became the art editor of Design Magazine, and eventually set up Ken Garland and Associates in January 1962. His connection with James Galt and Company began in April 1961, when he joined them as their consultant graphic designer.

This exhibition highlights the most significant designs  during Galt’s transformation from school furnishers to makers of retail children’s toys. Initially producing the branding and catalogues for Galt,  along with his new team (Ken Garland & Associates)  he expanded his portfolio with concepts for toys and games, notably Connect, Marble Run  and  Fizzog, which seemed to straddle the grey area between teaching and learning design.

The collection will include original leaflets and brochures, examples of the board games first conceptualised by Garland, children’s knock-down furniture and a selection of catalogue covers.

Kemistry Gallery and Twarda Sztuka Foundation are proud to present Mr T: The Posters of Jerzy Treutler - a celebration of  Treutler’s work from the 60s & 70s , and classic Polish poster design

Jerzy Treutler’s exhibition at Kemistry Gallery marks his first solo show in the UK. Working directly with Twarda Sztuka Foundation, the gallery proudly presents a selection of over forty of his prints, including classic film, sport and event posters.

Treutler is recognised internationally for his participation in the School of Polish Posters. From his graduation from the Warsaw Fine Art Academy in 1955 to the 1990s, Treutler designed film, exhibition, sport and national information posters for various central agencies; creating over 150 posters, several book covers and numerous corporate logos and illustrations.

“The Polish School of Posters can be best described as being bold and colourful with painterly orientation and one I embraced as a graphic artist with all my heart, it was an exciting and creative time for me”

- Jerzy Treutler

Treutler was able to create powerful imagery, inspired by movies and events without actually detailing them: no head shots and movie stills, no specifically direct connection to the title.  His work utilises bold colour, simple imagery and vivid lines to underline the strength of the message, and is distinguished by an abstract style typical of the Polish poster artist. Treutler’s posters are as fresh and engaging today as when they were first produced.

A selection of  limited edition, signed, print reproductions will be available to purchase from the gallery and online.

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Kemistry Gallery presents ‘Cut&Run’ a group exhibition of original works by British illustrators Jack Teagle, Matthew Bromley, Ryan Chapman and Matthew Dent. The show aims to bring together four bold individual illustration styles and explore their unique visual take on adventure, hunting, afterlife, happiness and beyond.

The exhibition will feature original paintings, sculptures and limited-edition prints all available exclusively from Kemistry Gallery.

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We have hunted out some of London’s new illustration talent, and together with outstanding work from our previous exhibitors, we are able to bring you a selection of prints, zines and books which are all perfect for that last minute Christmas shopping rush!

Join us as we look back through seven years of exceptional design shows and look forward to an exciting 2012, with forthcoming exhibitions from Ryan Chapman, Jack Teagle, Matthew Bromley & Matthew Dent, Jerzy Treutler, Ken Garland, This is Playtime and many more.

Kristmas features work from Parra, James Joyce, Daniel Eatock, Geoff McFetridge, Experimental Jetset and Homework. Alongside new  illustrations from Dominic Owen, Kyle Platts, Andy Smith and Tom Murphy. Pieces include print editions, zines, books from Gestalten & Visual Editions, objects and a selection of titles from Antenne Books, showcasing the breadth of graphic design both as a communication form and as an aesthetic skill.

With such a range of design talent,  you are bound to find something for everyone.

(21 November - 26 November)

SHOP Magazine, the world’s leading traveller shopping publication, invites you to an exhibition of its 2011 cover illustrations at the Kemistry Gallery in London from 21 to 26 November 2011.

The week-long exhibition, co-curated by Studio8 Design and Global Blue Media, will feature 38 illustrations by sought-after contemporary illustrators from around the world. Highlights from the exhibition include original works by Adrian Johnson, Pietari Posti, The Heads of State, Neil Webb, SHOUT, Nathalie Lees, Brett Ryder, Darren Hopes and Robert Hanson.
The exhibition will be the first of its kind to be held in association with SHOP Magazine, which publishes more than 3.8 million magazines in 78 editions across 28 countries. The essential shopping companion, SHOP has positioned itself as one of the most important forces in the publishing world, providing the definitive guide to the most exciting places and emerging trends in each destination.

With its innovative design and high production values, SHOP has set a standard of excellence for traveller publications. The use of vibrant and visually charged cover illustrations has been critical to the magazine’s success. With this in mind, SHOP specially commissions known names and talented newcomers to design its cover illustrations each season. This year’s illustrations have built upon SHOP’s established expertise in travel and fashion, refracting different aspects of these themes through highly original works of art.

Limited-edition prints of the illustrations will be available for sale at the exhibition. Profits will go to Kids Company, a London-based charity which provides education and support for vulnerable inner-city children.

‘We strive to provide a dynamic platform upon which emerging and established illustrators can showcase their work. This year we have had the opportunity to work with illustrators who have consistently surprised us with their imagination and enthusiasm for the magazine. All of us at SHOP are delighted to support Kids Company by selling some of the best cover illustrations we have commissioned this year,’ said Emma Cheevers, Editor-in- Chief of SHOP Magazine.

Resident Advisor, the world’s leading online electronic music magazine, will exhibit the artwork of their ten year anniversary event series at Kemistry this autumn. Back in May RA announced plans to throw ten parties in ten cities in celebration of their tenth anniversary. The line-up for each RA X event was curated by RA and a mystery headliner, who was referred to beforehand as the “X.” The X’s identity has been kept a closely guarded secret until they take to the stage for their performance.

A different designer was also enlisted to create a limited edition hand silk-screened poster for each event, which have been produced in runs of 75 by K2 in London. The designers were selected based on their work and collaborations within electronic music and represent some of the leading names in the field—Trevor Jackson, Simon Cook, Stefan Marx, Zeke Clough, Erosie, Albert Bertolin, Will Bankhead, Michael Cina, The Designers Republic and Laurent Fetis were all involved in contributing works to the series.

Between them, the group have created some of electronic music’s most icon sleeve design and artwork of the last 10+ years; from international artists such as Actress, Aphex Twin, Autechre Unkle, James Blake, Shackleton, Soulwax and The Stereo MCs, through to similarly renowned labels like Warp, Ghostly International, Honest Jons, Skull Disco, Mo Wax, SmallVille and 3024.

Throughout the exhibition prints will be available to purchase both in store and online.

(25 August — 15 October 2011*)

Kemistry Gallery and Fletcher Studio are proud to present Mind Over Matter: Alan Fletcher’s The Art of Looking Sideways - a celebration of ten years of this seminal publication and the work of a true design icon.

The exhibition brings together a collection of original material and notes from Alan Fletcher’s archive, documenting thirty or so years of attentive curiosity by Alan at large – throughout a career that (he asserted) was made from being in the right place at the right time. The accumulation of coincidence, chance and choice, that eventually led Alan to make the book, will pique curiosity and enlighten minds. A truly unique and personal collection of visual imagery, design articles, factual and cultural curiosities and quotations, The Art of Looking Sideways captures the sensory overload of contemporary visual culture, while also acting as a primer in visual intelligence. Fletcher’s work is instantly recognisable for its effortless simplicity, visual wit, and an inherent joy and surprise that was intensely personal. A compulsion for collecting useless information and putting it to work combined with a mastery of book design, shaped his thoughts and fed the fire.

Fletcher reminds us that a strong idea is always at the heart of a great design and that one must constantly reconsider the relationship between thinking and looking, telling and showing. His work, as reflected in this exhibition, is as refreshing and inspiring today as ever.

Alan Fletcher belongs to that élite international group of designers who have transcended the conventional boundaries of their craft. He was a member of the now legendary design consultancy Fletcher Forbes Gill, and a founding partner of the international design group Pentagram. Whilst as Consultant Art Director at Phaidon, he not only set high design standards for its art, architecture and design books, but worked with a generation of younger designers as well as to tell his design story by publishing his own books.

Kemistry Gallery, together with the estate of Alan Fletcher, have made available two beautiful, limited edition giclée prints - A Pizza and Two’s a crowd, three’s company. Exhibition posters and copies of the book The Art of Looking Sideways , published by Phaidon, will also be available for purchase during the exhibition.

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* Due to popular demand Mind Over Matter has been extended until the 15th October 2011.

Kemistry Gallery is pleased to announce their latest exhibition — Paul Wearing, Out of my Head.

Paul Wearing is a London-based artist and illustrator. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, Paul has established himself as one of the UK’s most prolific illustrators. Working extensively throughout the US, UK and Far East, with fashion, interior and advertising houses. The influence of his design background is evident in much of his illustration and has led to high profile campaign work as well as large-scale architectural installations. Projects have ranged from creating huge murals at General Mills’ corporate headquarters, to producing a multitude of imagery for luxury US retailer Neiman Marcus, and contributing to a worldwide campaign for United Airlines.

Paul is a keen visionary, experimenting with different techniques and styles, to create a distinctive visual language. His work is characterised by the employment of simple lines, patterns and strong colour to create beautiful, human silhouettes or concepts. This utilisation of graphic and iconic elements allows for the construction of an image that is able to communicate often complex ideas in a simple and sophisticated manner. His work has appeared in numerous illustration and design annuals including, Communication Arts, Design and Art Direction, and the Association of Illustrators’ Images.

Out of my Head will feature a selection of personal and commissioned images, including a number of signed print editions, which will be available for purchase in the gallery.