WOW Stage at Glastonbury 2013

At this year's Glastonbury Festival I was lucky enough to have been part of the amazing team (aka. TEAM LOVE) that brought you the WOW Stage in Silver Hayes.
This year the WOW Stage was transformed into a psychedelic ocean liner, featuring daily boat parties aboard (well, in front of) the HMS WOW.

I worked with two of the Hot Soup House designers - Russell Henry and Laurence Hassan on the design for the boat. Russell basically designed the structure of the boat facade we built, Laurence designed the 'Love Deep Like the Sea' lettering, and I designed and painted the mural of swirly, psychedelic, colourful shapes that decorate the white surface of the boat.

Being part of the WOW Stage team for the first time was such a great experience, and I cannot wait for Glastonbury 2014!!

From The Ransom Note website:
"Glastonbury Dance Village’s ‘WOW’ Stage traces its history back to 2008 when Dave Harvey and Tom Paine founded Team Love to programme the Igloo Tent. It was the first all-night venue in Dance Village with acts like Don Letts, Tayo and Metronomy."

Here's what Futureboogie's Dave Harvey has to say about the WOW:
"I think The Wow provides a counterbalance to the more established acts on East and West. We really try to pick up on artists who are coming up, pick them out early and get them involved – and again this year we’ve been really lucky to do so with lots of acts like Julio Bashmore, Space Dimension Controller, Lone, Floating Points, Funkineven, Fatima, Maya Jane Coles, Subb-an, Hyetal who have really come into their own in the last few months and our stage is probably the best place for them to be at the festival."

Scroll down to see more pictures, and see some work in progress shots and sketches!

Under construction on site:

The mural half painted at a secret location somewhere in Bristol, a few weeks before the festival:

Concept sketches:

Silver Hayes promo, featuring the WOW:

^^^ Spot us in this promo for Silver Hayes 2013 - look out for the big, bright party boat! ^^^

Love Saves the Day LOVE BOX

Love Saves The Day was a dance and electronic music festival that took place on Saturday the 25th of May 2013 in Castle Park, Bristol. The organisers asked me, and several other local artists in Bristol, to create unique 'Love Boxes', which would be placed around the site as decor.
The box was made up of 6 panels of 8 ft by 4 ft ply, which I put together into a triangle box shape. Scroll down to see some of the design process, and some shots of work in progress in my studio...

Onsite in a big pile before being built:

Work in progress in my studio:

Mock up:

References:

Instagram screengrabs of random strangers with the box :-) :

Jamaica Street Open Studios 2013

If you couldn't make it down to Open Studios at Jamaica Street over the weekend, here's a little sample of what you missed!
My space is the one above, the others I've snapped below are: Hannah McVicar, Christopher Wright, Cedric Barada, Anouk Mercier, Oivind Hovland, Vera Boele-Keimer, Abigail Reed, Janie George, Rose Vickers & Bjorn Rune Lie. There are many others in the building, this is just a small selection (mostly from the 3rd floor where I have my space).