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Micah Purnell
Fruits of the Spirit
Micah Purnell is an artist, curator and book designer. Born in 1977, Micah works from Manchester, England where he grew up.
His work has appeared on Netflix, the BBC, Creative Review, Getty Images, Huffington Post, Creative Boom, Artlyst and Design Week. His clients include The Guardian, Wembley Stadium, Elbow, Pizza Express and the NHS.
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Purnell runs ADD-ART which is a bi-monthly art project showcasing local and global artists and designers on his three purpose built street-side billboard galleries. And on this occasion he decided to put one of his own up.
His Graphic design covers book design, advertising and branding. His art centres around creating short text based phrases of social critique and positivity including aphorisms such as Put down your phone and talk to me, You are Enough, Struggle we May - Gather we Must, all of which are designed for public places from street signs, billboards, digital screens, and street furniture.
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Supermundane - Rob Lowe
Superconsumer Memo
Rob Lowe (also know as Supermundane) is one of Add Arts earliest contributors and is back with a few words close to my heart and the one of the reasons why I spend half my time curating the three Add Art billboards in Manchester.
Micah Purnell
He is an artist, illustrator and writer who enjoys working with geometric shapes, line, colour, pattern and words to create playful, multi-layered and philosophical work.
He's exhibited and has been published worldwide, including several solo shows and often works with charities such as Comic Relief, British Red Cross and War Child as well as smaller, less well-known, charities.
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Jerry-Lee Bosmans
Reflections
Jerry-Lee Bosmans is a visual artist and designer based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He creates graphic art, often characterized by vibrant colours and bold compositions.
In 2020, he began a personal project to discover new visual techniques and styles through daily experiments. With his work, he aims to inspire others by introducing more colour to everyday life.
Brands he has worked with include Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, Target, and more.
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Jen Orpin
In The Shadows
Jen Orpin lives in Manchester. Her work is held in public and private collections both nationally and internationally.
She has exhibited in London and Seoul among others and was selected for the 2023 Royal Academy Summer Show.
In November 2019 she co-founded Rogue Women and co-curated a group show of 45 female artists from Rogue including invited guest artists from all over the UK. The exhibition then returned in May 2023 with Rogue Women II and in November with a stand at The Manchester Contemporary.
Jen has had two solo shows, one in 2021, a 10 week solo show at the Manchester Modernist Society and her paintings appeared in two publications in conjunction with the Modernist Society and a project called Landscapes of Post War Infrastructure. The second was in March 2023, a three week solo show and four weekend gallery residency at Saul Hay Gallery Manchester.
In May 2021 her motorway paintings featured in the Guardian online and The Observer’s New Review arts and culture magazine and again in Jan 2023 when one of her paintings appeared in the ‘On My Radar’ feature. In Dec 2023 Jen featured on Radio 6Music in the Art Is Everywhere feature.
Jen is an associate member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts (MAFA) and can be found on the artists platform Gertrude.
She is currently represented by Saul Hay Gallery Manchester.
Public collections include: Manchester Art Gallery, New Art Gallery Walsall
‘My current practice focuses on one of the fundamental elements of human relationships, connection. This connection can manifest itself emotionally, spiritually and physically. The latter requires us to come together, meet, see and touch each other. This cannot happen without one crucial act, the journey that takes us to them. This, in the most part is achieved by various means and modes of transport.
The one I focus on and have been investigating throughout my painting practice is the journey by car and the relationship we have with the motorway and its landmarks. These visual representations of everyday topographies and the framed view from the car make up and form the basis of memories and nostalgia. The importance of these external landscapes is often mirrored by the internal dialogue of the driver and passenger with the confinements of the car at times offering an intimate confessional space.
The mundanity of these every day actions often belies the truth of deep routed emotions that come with well-travelled routes to the people and places that mean the most to us. In my paintings I aim to portray this feeling, emotionalism is a key element in the success of each one and as a viewer you are forced to look down the road as its sole traveler and undertake each journey as your own. Each bridge or landmark acts as the sitter in the landscape’s portrait, confronting you head on, holding your gaze as your mind travels under and beyond its concrete confinements.
The structures I focus on, often constructed from concrete and metal, brutal in nature, straddle well travelled motorways and roads. Unchanged and built to last, they offer sturdiness and a consistent presence that spans decades. They may be accompanied by the addition of graffiti or nature might have taken hold where possible, only adding to this presence. By documenting and recording these structures using the language of painting and drawing on the traditions of landscape painting, I aim to expand our perceptions and viewpoints and challenge how we look at these structures in our everyday landscapes. ‘
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Scott Erickson
Love never gives up.
Scott Erickson is an artist, author, performance speaker, and creative curate who mixes autobiography, mythology, and aesthetics to create art and moments that speak to our deepest experiences.
Using his passion and commitment to craft, Scott has been a working artist for over a decade, and has had his work appear on CNN, National Geographic, and various magazines, newspaper outlets, and book covers.
As a speaker, Scott brings his training as an educator and his experience as a visual communicator to all of his presentations. His goal is to bring something for his “A.D.D. brothers and sisters out there”… making sure every speech is thoughtful, entertaining, wondrous, and filled with visual elements and live creating.
He is the writer and performer of two one man shows. Wrestling with his own professional burnout and clinical depression, “We Are Not Troubled Guests” is a performance story-telling piece in which he navigates the surprising gift of an existential crisis.
His current show, "Say Yes: A Liturgy of Not Giving Up On Yourself”, juxtaposes story-teaching, participation, humour, and image curation as Scott walks us through the very personal and universal conversation about the death of a dream and the overwhelming voice of Giving Up in our lives.
He is the co-author of Prayer: Forty Days of Practice and May It Be So, the author of Honest Advent and Say Yes , a Spiritual Director to brave women and men, and a professional dishwasher for his food blogging wife.
Scott lives in Vancouver, WA and is most loved by his wife Holly and his children Anders, Elsa, and Jones.
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Micah Purnell
Struggle We May, Gather We Must
Micah Purnell is a British freelance graphic designer, public artist and curator. Born in 1977, Micah works from Manchester, England where he grew up.
His work has appeared on the BBC, iNews, Creative Review, Getty Images, Huffington Post, Creative Boom, Artlyst and Design Week. His clients include The Guardian, Wembley Stadium, Elbow, Pizza Express and the NHS.
Purnell runs ADD-ART which is a bi-monthly art project showcasing local and global artists and designers on his three purpose built street-side billboard galleries. And on this occasion he decided to put one of his own up.
His Graphic design covers book design, advertising and branding. His art centres around creating short text based phrases of social critique and positivity including aphorisms such as Put down your phone and talk to me, You are Enough, Struggle we may - gather we must, all of which are designed for public places from street signs, billboards, digital screens, and street furniture.
'Struggle We May, Gather We Must' was, in part, inspired by the fisherman's phrase 'Fail We May, Sail We Must' made famous by Andrew Wetherall.
Micah believes that, words, and aesthetics can change the way people feel about themselves and the world around them, and is the driving factor behind all of his work.
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Maser
Compass
Having become internationally recognised for his expansive repertoire of contemporary visual art he has been commissioned to create original artwork by prestigious arts organisations including Sotheby’s (UK/FR), Art On Paper (USA), Palais de Tokyo (ER), Gormleys Fine Art (IRL)and Graphic Print Studio (IE).
Since the outset, Maser has continuously progressed his artistic style and practice, which is now firmly rooted in the realm of contemporary Irish Art
Having created artwork since 1995, Maser has earned much respect professionally and has generated a large and dedicated following in Ireland and abroad.
Maser’s artistic practice includes large-scale murals, works on canvas, sculptures, prints, immersive installations and interactive exhibitions. His artistic style is regularly complemented with bold colours, pattern overlays and gestural forms.
Having become internationally recognised for his expansive repertoire of contemporary visual art he has been commissioned to create original artwork by prestigious arts organisations including, the National Gallery of Ireland (IE), Sotheby’s (UK/FR). the National Library of Ireland (IE), the National Print Museum (IRL), Art On Paper (USA), Lazarides (UK), Tandem Press (USA), Palais de Tokyo (ER), Gormleys Fine Art (IRL)and Graphic Print Studio (IE).Since the outset, Maser has continuously progressed his artistic style and practice, which is now firmly rooted in the realm of contemporary Irish Art
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Sarah Boris
Subverting the Rainbow
Sarah Boris has worked with publishing institutions such as Phaidon, ICA, the Barbican. Projects include her Fragile UK flag artworks, her self published book 'Global Warming Anyone?' as well as the redesign of the Institute of Contemporary Arts' (London) identity and the bestselling monograph 'JR: Can Art Change the World?' published by Phaidon.
She is a regular speaker at festivals around the world and in universities and was a guest lecturer at LCC, University of the Arts London, London Metropolitan University and University Hertfordshire. She was judge president for D&AD Professional Awards and has been a judge for D&AD New Blood, Design Week Awards, Latin American Design Awards to name a few.
She published several books such as 'Le Théâtre Graphique' her first wordless artist book now part of several museum collections.
Her works are part of the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MAK Vienna, the New York Book Art Center Fine Art Collection, FRAC Normandie-Rouen (regional contemporary art collections), l'artothèque of Le Bel Ordinaire, and was exhibited at the Design Museum in London and at Une Saison Graphique, Le Havre, France.
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Dave Towers
Nope
Dave Towers is a typography artist that excels in creating vibrant and graphic artworks with his acrylic markers, creating witty phrases from the sweeping movement of his brush.
Dave Towers' art focuses on bold typographic prints that are harmonious in form, colour and composition.
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Gemma O'Brien
Turn on your mind
Gemma O’Brien is a typographic illustrator and mural artist based in Sydney, Australia. She is an internationally renowned designer and artist known for her bold graphics, illustrative lettering and murals.
Her work has been commissioned by Apple, Nike, Google, and is held in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
Her bold and graphic pieces combine digital and hand made techniques, and often take inspiration from nature. Her work lends itself to small and large scale outputs, including installations and immersive experiences.
Outside her commercial design work, she explores language, nature and the human experience through her art practice.
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Nash Weerasekera
Good posture
Self-taught Nash Weerasekera makes Illustrations, paintings and cocktails (… both for himself and clients). Born in Sri Lanka, Nash moved to Australia to study Architecture at RMIT, and now lives in Melbourne where he finds the definition of ‘spicy’ a tad disappointing.
Working by hand and refining digitally, Nash’s crisp illustrations engage with social commentary, personal experience and the challenge of translating multiple messages into a single image for his editorial clients, which include The New York Times, Harvard Business Review and Forbes. He is most known for his book What to Expect When You’re Immigrating. With a finely honed practice, Nash is renowned among clients for his speedy turnaround, conceptual thinking and dramatic palette.
Nash contributes to the non-profit space in collaborations with the Fitzroy Youth Centre during their street art sessions and contributes to workshops with the Footscray Community Arts Centre.
AS A KID, I LOVED TO DRAW…
Caricatures of my teachers, which would inevitably get me into trouble.
I CAN’T STOP LISTENING TO…
The Maccabees. (The British indie rock band, not the 2nd century BC rebel warriors.)
I OVERCOME CHALLENGES BY…
Burning tons of (metaphorical) midnight oil.
FOR ME, THE BEST KINDS OF PROJECTS ARE…
Ones that get my conceptual gears churning and/or bigger projects I can sink my teeth into.
MY PROCESS IS A MIXTURE OF…
Problem solving, conceptualising, hand drawn sketches and eventually procreate.
MY FAVOURITE KIND OF SPACE TO WORK IN IS…
Extremely dirty, like a martini (olives optional).
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Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda
Flowergasted
This month we're delighted to bring you this stunning summery piece by Spanish duo Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda. Their work makes you look twice, three times, and more. They're fun, stylish and so well put together.
'Forbes 30 under 30 honorees Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda are two imaginative photographers, both born in 1990. They met at the Universitat Politècnica de València, where they both graduated from the School of Architecture. Today, this creative duo puts to use their architectural backgrounds to tell stories through fun and surprising images that are far from conventional architecture photography. Their particular style is characterized by their visual sense of humor, creativity, precision, and a delicate aesthetic inspired by the city, geometry, and minimalism.'
'By combining their spatial awareness and their artistic vision, primarily based on simple shapes and bold patterns, they have succeeded in establishing magnetic and joyful narratives that smartly suggest both the nature of human relations and the fascination with the urban environment.'
'Although it may seem surprising or hard to believe, besides some basic image processing, Anna and Daniel create these surreal scenes without the use of photo editing software. Instead, they carefully set the scene in real life using all sorts of everyday objects, unexpected locations, and tons of natural light.'
'For Anna and Daniel, every unique story needs a unique location to be told in. Luckily for them, there are plenty of beautiful places on our planet waiting to be discovered. Set in all sorts of real-life environments, their images do not only celebrate constructions all over the world but also the cities they were built in.'
Happytecture is their new book and a brilliant piece for any coffee table, to entertain you for hours.
'In 'Happytecture', Anna and Daniel challenge us to look at the immediate world around us in a way we’ve never seen it before, unfolding the hidden beauty of street elements such as doors, windows and other urban vernacular to which we might tend not to give a second look.
The result is a visual love letter to architecture and urban design that is both personal and relatable.'
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Creative Boom / Add Art Collaboration
Fuchsia MacAree and Murugiah
I feel Tender by Fuchsia MacAree
I'm delighted to collaborate with Creative Boom to exhibit these exclusive designs especially created for CB - Micah
Fuchsia MacAree is an award-winning Dublin-based illustrator whose clients include Google, Facebook, and Airbnb. For Creative Boom, Fuchsia has created an exclusive artwork, I Feel Tender Toward The World, reminding us to enjoy calm.
From Creative Boom: The first artwork is by Fuchsia MacAree, an award-winning Dublin-based illustrator whose clients include Google, Facebook, and Airbnb. For Creative Boom, Fuchsia created I Feel Tender Toward The World, reminding us to enjoy calm. "In making this piece, I was thinking about mindfulness and being present in the moment, and noticing small changes of light around me," she explains. "Observational drawing feels therapeutic, so taking some time to focus on a small detail, like the refraction of light in a glass of flowers, felt like an exercise in mindfulness in itself! The line is from The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien. It makes me think of being in those fleeting frames of mind where the world is exciting and new, and normal objects take on an otherworldly quality."
Sleep by Murugiah
Murugiah is an award-winning artist and designer based in London, born and raised in the UK with Sri Lankan heritage. Describing his style as "surreal, joyful and loud", he uses bright and bold colours along with detailed compositions to bring us art that is psychedelic, explosive and out of this world.
From Creative Boom: Award-winning artist and designer Murugiah is behind the second artwork. Based in London, born and raised in the UK with Sri Lankan heritage, he describes his style as "surreal, joyful and loud" and uses bright and bold colours along with detailed compositions to bring us art that is psychedelic, explosive and out of this world. His piece is titled Sleep and features Murugiah's little character called MURU. "In this chaotic world we live in where everything, everywhere all at once comes at us daily, the idea of taking a break can even be daunting," says Murugiah.
"Sleep is one of the most important things we can do to recharge and improve our mental and physical health. So I hope in picking up a copy of 'sleep' fans can hang the print up to remind them to rest, take a break, relax and eventually get some sleep."
Add-Art, which has exhibited artworks by Matt Blease, The Fandango Kid and Anthony Burrill, is looking for new sites to grow the project nationally. To support the scheme, go to Patreon. If you're interested in adding a gallery to your building, email [email protected].
Both prints are available exclusive to the Creative Boom shop. https://www.creativeboom.com/news/keep-calm-campaign/
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Matt Blease
This Way - Peace
Born in Liverpool, Matt studied Design Futures in Edinburgh before moving to London in 2004.
His work can be seen weekly in his spot in The Guardian. Other clients include: Google, The New Yorker, Rapha, TFL, Nike, Vogue, Coca Cola, The Financial Times, Penguin Books, The Science Museum.
Before embarking on his career as an illustrator Matt worked as a Designer for brands including Nike, BBC and PlayStation and went on to lead the Graphic Design team at Liberty.
Matt’s work is influenced by his graphic design background, communicating ideas in a playful and direct way. His distinctive illustration style is recognisable in its observational humour, emotional intelligence as well as his bold and confident line work, and often draws upon his love of skateboarding and cycling.
The print was used to raise funds for the Choose Love Ukraine Crisis Fundraiser.
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Monica Obaga
Live music is back
Monica Obaga is now gracing the billboard with this stunning piece which reminded me of how long it has been since music halls and gig venues have waited to let people in to perform and share music together.
Obaga is originally is from Nairobi, Kenya, but is now based in Los Angeles, she creates 2D, minimal, and geometric illustrations with clean lines in gloriously muted colour.
Her clients include: Instagram, Penguin Random House, WeTransfer (where I first spied her), AirBnB among others.
Her interpretation of a mix of Kenyan traditional styles. She focuses primarily on producing work for social good or resulting in positive African media representation.
Music venues have struggles this past could of year and was the last to be allowed back to trade. This piece made me feel celebratory about the coming back together as a live audience to see performers do their thing.
Only this week I went out and did the Holy Trinity of old haunts here in Manchester and had a whisky in each venue. A Bunnahabhain in Night & Day, a Laphroaig in Matt & Phreds and an Oban in The Castle - all venues I’ve seen live music.
You can see more of Monica’s work https://monicaobaga.co/
or follow her on instagram https://www.instagram.com/monicaobaga/
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Damon Sheeley
Tidal Vessel
I was delighted Damon was keen to get involved. His works are paradoxically ethereal yet close, as if beyond us, yet within.
He says “I've had an interest in visual design and art for the better part of my life but never took myself seriously enough to go any further with it until the last couple of years, when I started finding my true voice within it.”
“I find inspiration in the natural world and beyond. My goal is to bring those elements into my work in a way that feels warm, peaceful and imaginative.”
You can find him here: https://www.instagram.com/sheeleyco/
And this prints is available here: https://www.sheeleyco.com/prints/p/tidal-vessel-print
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Micah Purnell
Love Wisdom Grace & Hope
Micah Purnell is an award winning freelance graphic designer, artist, curator and author, with a taste for Norwegian sweaters, in Manchester, England.
As an independent graphic designer Micah leans on his extensive network of illustrators, animators, photographers and web developers, which means you have a one stop shop for any project. In all his projects he uses Design Thinking to find new ways to create “AHHH” moments. These always bring positive, memorable experiences.
We work with a variety of national and global clients including the NHS, The Guardian, Wembley Stadium, Department for International Trade, Havas Lynx, Tearfund, Bible Society, Pizza Express, Elbow, and The University of Manchester, not to mention his kids, who get him running around designing logos for their various enterprises.
Love is an action, a four letter word, a gritty - head down and work kinda word.
Wisdom knows. Wisdom seeks a listener. Heed Wisdom. Wisdom counters our self destruct mode and in this way is counter intuitive. Wisdom is closer than you think. Wisdom loves you.
Grace as understood as underserved favour, gift, gratis, without earning, freely given without condition.
Hope, hope is the catalyst.
As well as appearing in countless exhibitions over the last 25 years (including public group shows alongside Turner Prize Winner Douglas Gordon and global street artist JR), Micah has curated numerous projects with leading international artists, designers and thinkers on outdoor billboard galleries.
Features in publications include (among others) Prayer by the world renowned Benetton photographer Oliviero Toscani, published by Fabrica, Italy, and This Is The Place, which raised £130, 000 for charity after the Manchester Arena Bombing.
His apparel street ware takes his pithy quotes and strips them back into single worded, logo like emblems designed onto tees, jerseys and hoodies.
His work has appeared in The Guardian, Getty Images, Creative Review, Huffington Post, Creative Boom, Metro News, Artlyst, and Design Week. I’ve been lucky enough to speak ~ from London to New York and the People’s History Museum to the BBC.
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