A Warm Summer Welcome

A warm summer welcome to a long overdue update;

There is lots of very exciting news to tell of in the coming months. I’d love to put it all in this update but it would turn into an essay, so get ready for more regular updates from me.

Where to start….

July:

Come and visit Hackney Wicked Festival on 30-31st July. Unit B1a Gallery, is a pop-up contemporary art gallery in the heart of Hackney Wick that will be exhibiting work by; Ally Mellor, Christopher Jarratt & Jo Peel. Unit B1a Gallery, 12 Stour Road, London, E3 2NT - private view 29th July 6-9pm. More information HERE.

August:

I will have a site specific installation of Slingshots in the Hospital Club window in the heart of Covent Garden for the whole month of August (01.08.11 - 31.08.11).

Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9HQ.

www.thehospitalclub.com & facebook.

September:

A very exciting collaboration with YCN for London Design Festival. More to follow.

Ongoing:

The wonderful; Artisan Social Designer (the recently opened gallery in the heart of Paris) are showing a new edition of small & giant Slingshots, below is a photo of a proud looking slingshot in the entrance.

Artisan Social Designer, 68 rue des gravilliers, 75003 Paris, France.

More information here: www.artisansocialdesigner.fr & on facebook.

The Vitra curated Hidden Heroes exhibition featuring the Cityscape Coat Hangers and the Slingshots, has moved on to the amazing ‘Das Gelbe Haus’ in Flims, Switzerland where it is staying until October 16th, and then in November on to the Science Museum, London. More information at; http://www.dasgelbehaus.ch

To be continued…..

Moss gallery, New York have totally sold out of the two editions of both the small and giant Slingshots. I look forward to sending a new edition out there. Will keep you posted.

Giant Slingshots featured on It's Nice That

Thank you to Alex Turvey who I have had the pleasure of working with in the past (and I hope future) for featuring my work on the It's Nice That blog.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/christopher-jarratt

Slingshots featured in Art Review

I was very excited to find out that the slingshots are featured in the May edition (this months) of Art Review.

Hidden Heroes Exhibition - Eindhoven, Netherlands

The Vitra backed Hidden Heroes exhibition featuring the Cityscape coat hangers and Slingshots, has taken residence in the Designhuis, Enidhoven until the 25th May.

From paperclip to pencil, from condom to Velcro, and from press stud to clothes peg. Based on an idea as simple as it was ingenious , these Hidden Heroes of everyday life are actually the ultimate examples of sustainability and functional aesthetics. This exhibition of 35 everyday classics, their history and significance is produced by the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein; the first stop on its journey across the world is the Netherlands.

More information from the Designhuis website here: http://www.designhuis.nl/en

New work @ Co-Laboratory exhibition

I will be exhibiting a new piece (in collaboration with Rhoslyn Butler) along with some one-off Slingshots and the Building Blocks at the Co-Laboratory exhibition in Hoxton from the 15-25 April.

If you can make it come down for the private view on the 14 April, 6-9pm.
CLICK HERE FOR INVITE.

Co-Laboratory:
By invitation designers have been paired with different, yet complimentary practices, to create new work. The intention is to nurture the creativity of conversation, and to encourage new discoveries through an exchange of skills. They have all been asked to make something new, something that functions and something that uses the following quote as its starting point:
‘The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.’ John Pierpont Morgan

More information HERE.

Under a Full Moon - Moss, winter 2011

Giant Slingshots for Moss Gallery