This Sunday, 29th April 2012, is a very special date in the calendar at Common as they bring us ‘A Common Affair‘, a day of zines, prints and music (from bands and DJs) to celebrate the creativity of this great city of ours.
Starting at 2pm in the Kestrel Suite at Common there will be a huge selection of limited edition zines, prints, art, comics and much more for you to view and buy, and the lineup of artists is a veritable whos-who of local talent including Dr Me, Preston Is My Paris, Paul Gallagher (aka Spooky PG Tips), Sacred Geometry, Good Grief!, Bryony Jackson, Pascal Nichols, Rebecca Crompton, SAVWO & Steve Hickett, Iwan Roberts, Alex Humpreys, Salford Illustration, Andrew Brown, Manchester Municipal Design Corporation, Dylan Hughes, Darren Adcock, Faye Johnson, Mike Redmond and David Bailey.
If that wasn’t enough, the event will also act as a launch party for Sex Hands brand new 7″ and they will be playing live on the evening alongside Brown Brogues & Former Bullies between 6pm and 8pm before the night is given over to the artists and musicians from the day to take over on DJ duty.
The fair will be in full effect from 2pm – 6pm, with the bands playing from 6pm – 8pm, followed by DJs until midnight. Don’t forget to sign up for the Common membership card here, so you can receive 10% off your food and drink while you enjoy ‘A Common Affair‘.
Here are some of the artists as highlighted on ‘The Common Web Badger’, Common’s fortnightly newsletter which you can sign up for here.
David Bailey
David is an ink and paper illustrator specialising in gig posters, comic attempts and drawings of babies. Black and white is the order of the day mostly, but recent work has seen strange new footsteps in to the land of colour. David’s crowning moment came when he won a Manchester Blog Award in 2011 for his food review blog, Food Legend. For A Common Affair he promises prints and originals and hastily made low brow zines if time allows. http://www.davidbaileyillustration.com/
Robert Parkison
Robert documents many of his publications through photography, he started ‘Preston is my Paris’ as a free zine in 2010, to date there been fifteen free issues, alongside ‘PPP Books’ a low budget publication. Robert has exhibited in London, Paris, Tokyo, America. One of the early PPP publications ‘Preston Bus Station’, has just been featured in Archizines, which is currently on a world tour. Recently published ‘M&M Line’, which is a documentation and exploration of England’s ‘slowest’ journey. It features photographs taken from Manchester to Llanelli between 17th to 20th February 2012, this limited edition publication will be available on Sunday. http://prestonismyparis.blogspot.co.uk/
Steve Hockett & SAVWO
As part of the current exhibition the ‘Church of the Mystic Egg’ (COTME), artists SAVWO and S.J.Hockett have invited members of the church to Common. The congregation will be bringing some religious literature and will be available to answer questions about COTME.http://savwo.co.uk/ http://www.thekunstkammer.com/
Bryony Jackson
Bryony is an all drawing, all collaging, all painting force. Sampling in her work the spirit of Nickelodeon (when it was good), Yikes pencils and a thousand smiling dogs. Self-made patterned and printed papers collage together with big heads, happy animals and a cactus obsession to give super sweet results. Here is a poster for Bryony’s forthcoming exhibition at Night & Day cafe on May 7th. Expect prints and original one-offs for sale at A Common Affair! http://bryonyjackson.tumblr.com/
Pascal Nichols
Pascal is a Manchester artist who makes exquisite works on paper, plays in the band Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides and is a fully fledged ceramics teacher. Enabling kids to make all kinds of cool stuff like this and this. Wish you’d had him as a teacher? You still can, Pascal is running ceramics courses in Manchester for beginners over the coming months. Expect the rare opportunity to make your own head from clay at A Common Affair as Pascal is bringing air drying clay to the occasion, you can paint your bust too! http://pascalnichols.com/
Faye Johnson & Rebecca Crompton
Faye is a recent graduate from the Manchester School of Art Illustration course. She’s emphatically one of the best and most fevered draw-ers we’ve seen in recent times, check out the ‘BIG’ gallery on her site for such examples of taking the line for a walk. http://www.fayecoraljohnson.com
Rebecca Crompton is a fellow graduate of the same hotspot and is an equally free spirited illustrator. Rebecca has been getting enterprising of late with her reinvention of desktop logos, available to buy from her site, and the most far out and fabulous greetings card range that we think you’re likely to ever see.http://www.rebeccacrompton.com
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