Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, December 10th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: Custard Factory, punch, sauce gallery, swifty
Here’s artist Swifty putting the finishing touches to his shop installation at the Sauce Gallery in the Custard Factory earlier today, in time for the big bash launch that’s going on as I type. The Swifty Pop Shop brings to life his childhood memories of the 70’s village corner shop – with bad plastic toys, comic books, Subbuteo pieces and sweets to break your jaw by. Swifty also gives us a pop-art alphabet lesson in our A, B, C.
The Swifty Pop Shop is open until 10th January 2010.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, November 13th, 2009 ( One response )
Tags: Custard Factory, punch, sauce gallery, swifty
Typographer, sleeve designer and artist Swifty will be setting up The Swifty Pop Shop at the Sauce Gallery in the Custard Factory from Friday 11th December – selling originals, one off prints, T-shirts, skateboards and stickers and the like.
The Pop Shop, which is being brought to Birmingham by Sauce Gallery and Punch Records, will feature Swifty’s Newsagents installation. This life size shop front was partly inspired by Peter Blake’s ‘Toy Shop’ and the artist’s fond memories of a local village newsagent in Lancashire. The Shop will also be home to the A-Z of Swifty Show, including pieces based around everything from Action Man to Zebedee from the Magic Roundabout.
The Pop Shop will be at the Sauce Gallery in The Custard Factory from 11th December 2009 to 10th January 2010. For more information visit www.myspace.com/saucegallery or www.punch-records.co.uk.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, November 6th, 2008 ( One response )
Tags: acedanceandmusic, anotherbyteofbanality, bass09, birminghamitsnotshit, Capsule, consideritdone, custardfactory, Digbethisgood, gigbeth, jonbounds, links, mamamatrix, midgediabolik, nickbooth, podnosh, punch, releasethebats, sittingnow, socialmediasurgery, thedestroyers, TheRainbow, toblog
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- The Next Social Media Surgery for Voluntary Organisations in Birmingham. – The last ‘one-off’ went so well there’s to be another on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 5.30pm to 7.00pm in BVSC.
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