2014 > 2015

With my last blog post dating back a year, it's pretty clear that I don't really need this blog anymore. 

The first half of this year was for the most part consumed by the audiovisual mix project I set up called Intertext Editions. It's on hold at the moment, but it may well come back at some point when I have some more time. As much as I enjoyed curating the project and having the chance to collaborate with friends, the whole thing was quite draining and at times bordering on the obsessive. The whole idea of Intertext was basically born from the fact that I barely had any space to draw and create and was too broke to hire even a cheap studio, so moving to something web-based was my solution to that. That's London life for you. 

I'm happy to say that since then I have managed to obtain a little space of my own and have revived my Lefty Le Mur guise. I relaunched my website and am now tweeting about my activities again. With conditions looking up, it's been possibly to finally start working on some projects that have long been gathering dust in my to-do list. First up is a publication about cities. I've got big plans for it and I aim to have something done by mid-2015.

Meanwhile, this blog. I've decided not to kill it entirely but rather start using it as a place where to publish more academic-ish stuff. Like talking about influences, new discoveries, visual culture etc. I've got a long list of subjects i wish to talk about more and explore further. But alas, with my memory as good as a well-oiled slide, this blog will be appointed as my memory bank, so to speak. 

Exciting times ahead in Lemuria for 2015 then! Can't wait.

Lemurian

This last week was spent digitising/creating a new font or whatever you might want to call it based on what I call the Lemurian script. Here's a sneaky-peek..

New Prints

I had a while ago done some prints related to my Birth of Culture book. I haven't really shown them around much yet apart from putting them on sale at the Graphic Arts Stall during Malta's Patches Market last July. The prints are basically reworks or edits of visual material related to the Birth of Culture and were printed out using the riso process by Elliott at Victory Press, who I would happily return to work with. 

The prints come in 4 varieties, are all 3-colour and A3 in size. They can be purchased for £20 each by getting in touch here. Discounts available for purchases of 3 or more prints!

Nieuw Werk / Wolken

Holy flying mackerel, that took a while! Settling in was far from speedy, but I've started doing some new work during these past few days now that the dust's settled a bit. The first few bits of drawing seem to be concerned mostly with clouds and wishy washy fluffy stuff. That might be due to the sky being a bit more visible out here in London's Zone 3 (as opposed to Zone 1)? I don't know. I like them though and I might do a little something with them this week. And while we're at it, I've thrown in a track by Shlohmo that reminds me of the white stuff. 

Work for sale at Patches Market, Malta

Next Sunday the 8th of July will see yet another installment of the now firmly established Patches - Malta's handmade product market (which is, by the way, run by my camera hugging/brush wielding sister Denise Scicluna). This will be I believe the 11th edition yet, and as much as I've always wanted to take part I've never really had much of anything to sell really. Up until now that is. 

So, this time round I'll be having a stall at the market. I will be selling some prints and books of mine but the exciting bit for me is that I will also be selling works by other Maltese (or related) graphic artists. These include - Ken Borg, Thomas Cuschieri, Adrian Gauci and Sara de la Mora. We'll be selling a variety of graphic goodies ranging from prints (riso and screen), artist and comic books, postcards, accessories etc, most of which I believe is going to have been available in Malta for the first time.

For my part, I will be having 3 or 4 new risoprints, a selection of postcards and copies of my book The Birth of Culture up for sale (see pics below). If you're not in Malta at the time then of course do please get in touch if interested in copies of the prints or the book, but for you graphic and illustration enthusiasts who will be in Malta at the time - we expect to see you there!

Update

I've been busy and it's been a while, but here's a little update - I'll be taking part in Malta's Patches market on the 8th of July where I'll be selling copies of my book The Birth of Culture, prints and other visual goodies. More info about this later..

B-Cards

Last year while at uni I did a series of screenprinted business cards for my fledgling little freelance business. I thought I wouldn't have another chance to screenprint some business cards for free for some time, so with that in mind and blind drunk on dreams of instant freelance illustration success I printed ALOT of them. 

Unfortunately I still have most of them. 

Of course I blame these economically hard times but hey, have a look. You might like them and call me up for a job?

 

 

leftylemur.com

I've been planning to have a website for several years now. It sounds simple enough but man is it hard. It must just be me though, since my snap-happy sister Denise Scicluna managed to create two websites in the space of 2 years or so, with my good friend and ace graphic designer Marco also managing the same. Humiliating. Anyway, several things are falling into place now, my website being one of them. The site was for the most part designed by myself, with all the technical bits taken care of by the guys at (arguably Malta's freshest studio) Porridge.

Check it out here!

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In what seems to have been a week of firsts, I have also done my first bit of wall painting in ages. First ever wall in London too..

Pictures of the finished pieces over at my Flickr.