Post-Operative

Lichtenstein: A Retrospective opened at the Tate Modern last week. A similar love of comic books inspired us to create some 'post-operative' graphics for New York's Met Opera -

MeTube: August sings Carmen 'Habanera'

We love this video from 'MeTube', showing Carmen in a fresh light. That is fresh in the old-fashioned sense of the word... Have a look, go on, we dare you.



We are currently developing our new range for Glyndebourne Opera so watch this space. Last year we created the 'Quercus Operatica' graphic - an Operatic family tree with Glyndebourne-founder John Christie at the base.

Black Maria

Gruppe and Richard Wentworth's collaboration is not quite as permanent as the Pergamon Altar, but still a good place for gods and fallen angels to congregate and celebrate their differences. 

Read more here.

Monday Portrait: Richard Artschwager

This week sculptor and painter Richard Artschwager who died this weekend. 

Table With Pink Tablecloth, 1964

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch. 

Richard Wentworth at the Lisson Gallery

A Room Full of Lovers, 2013 (detail) 

Richard Wentworth's latest exhibition is now on at the Lisson Gallery. Open until 9 March, we highly recommend a visit. See products we have made with the artist in the past here.

A Room Full of Lovers, 2013 (installation view)

What Kit had to say -

This latest work by Richard Wentworth is something between a drawing and a sculpture, very chicken and egg, I don't know which comes first. The chains flirt with the floor like a line does the edge of a page. These pictures don't do it justice - just go, settle in, and let it work its message.

A Room Full of Lovers, 2013 (installation view) 

The Square Holes, 2013 

Apologies for Magritte's appearance in the reflection of this photo, a set of four, but sort of a good accident: you can list all the individual elements in the photos but together they are rather unsettling - I have been thinking about them for two weeks.

Found in the office: Richard III

Rooting around the office yesterday we found this illustration Kit did in the late seventies for Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library. 

Monday Portrait: Blank Elizabeth

This is not strictly a portrait but a product we made for the National Portrait Gallery a few years ago. It is a wipe clean memo board so you can decide how the monarch is feeling.


Image taken from an original portrait of Elizabeth I in the National Portrait Gallery collection by an unknown Netherlandish artist c. 1525.