ZULU WINTER - SILVER TONGUE

I recently had the pleasure of Art directing the new music video for Zulu Winter, for their excellent track Silver Tongue, with Alex Turvey at the helm.



https://vimeo.com/41069099

Community Kite Project + Hospital Club Installation

Kite Making Workshops at the Hospital Club - SIGN UP!

Angry Birds Slingshot!

I have had to keep this under wraps until now but I am really excited to tell you about my collaboration with ARM. A hand crafted Angry Birds Slingshot packed full of electronic wizardry to bring the most played game off the screen and into your hands.

Read all about it here: http://mbed.org/cookbook/Slingshot

And watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a97bWORY4Og&feature=channel

COMMUNITY KITE PROJECT

Really looking forward to getting this out in the public!

Come along, build a kite, and we will go fly them afterwards. www.kiteproject.co.uk

COMMUNITY KITE PROJECT PRESENTS ’10 KITES’ EXHIBITION AND FREE KITE MAKING WORKSHOPS FOR ALL

Community Kite Project is a collaboration between Christopher Jarratt, Jo Peel and Tom Tobia. We believe fun, imagination and the art of making are precious commodities. We would like to share them with as many people as possible.

Running from 1st -7th March, 2012 – Community Kite Project will be holding kite making workshops alongside an exhibition of kites designed and made by Christopher Jarratt and art-worked by some of our favourite UK artists including:

Alexander Turvey
Dave Anderson
EMA
Hattie Stewart
Jo Peel
Jon Fox
Kid Acne
Ryan Callanan
Telegramme
Will Barras

CKP will be hosting a week-long festival of kite making and workshops and evening kite related screenings, including a live stream with Sayamimdu Dasgupta at MIT’s Media Lab on how to build the perfect Indian Fighting Kite! Local community groups, schools, offices, passers-by and families are invited to build a kite each, and the best bit - it's FREE and it’s for everyone! No cost, no catch, just a chance to explore your inner child, get imaginative and make yourself a fully functioning kite to keep. What could be more fun than that?

Opening Night: Thursday, 1st March2012; Space 54, Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3QN, with the private view opening at 6:30pm. For more details, visit the website at www.kiteproject.co.uk

More info coming soon with some photo's of the kites I'm working on for the show.

Hidden Heroes at the Science Museum!

The Vitra curated; Hidden Heroes - The Genius of Everyday Things has landed in London at the Science Museum. The show features a selection of my Slingshots and Cityscape Coat Hangers. Looking forward to the opening night on the 8th...

More information on the Science Museum website here: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/hiddenheroes

Christopher Jarratt vs Sebastian Bergne

A bit of a David vs Goliath firing showdown going on here (me being David..... help!).


"Up for grabs is a chance to own the winner of this minor showing-off contest.So, without further ado…. this weekend we’ll pit the honed and toned athleticism of Sebastian Bergne’s ‘BANDIT’ against the solid sturdy gumption of Christopher Jarratt’s ‘SLINGSHOT’ in a battle of firing skills including; accuracy, distance, impact, and blammo (not sure what that is yet, but we’ll think of something)."


If you’d like to take a punt at securing yourself the winner, each a fine example of British design and fun, then email Spunique with your name and a contact number HERE. The winner will be selected at random on Monday 17 October.

http://www.spunique.com/blog/comments/win_win_winner

Blue Slingshots now available at SPUNIQUE

I am very excited to tell you that you can now buy a the Riviera Light (blue) edition for the first time in the UK from online retailer; Spunique. They have taken on a small number of this edition which is of only 30. Once they are gone they are gone!

Take a look HERE.

YCN show review

Firstly I would like to say Thank You to all that took the time out to come and visit my show at YCN. Below are a few shots (no pun intended) of the show over the last two weeks. The slingshot firing range proved a great success with over 500 paintball's getting blasted into the wall in the first week alone! I can't wait to do something similar again.

 If you missed the show, and still want to see the slingshots, fear not. The Slingshots will be staying in the YCN Shop HERE.

Take a shot at YCN

As part of this year's London Design Festival we are delighted to welcome Christopher Jarratt and his extra-ordinary hand made slingshots to YCN at 72 Rivington Street. You can buy them online here too.

Christopher has produced an exclusive special edition of 30 slings and three accompanying big ones to form the centrepiece of our window display.

All are available for sale both at 72 Rivington Street and online, and there's a "try before you buy" firing range in store, where you can test your aim and see what a paintball does to a wall when fired out of a hand crafted slingshot. Safety glasses provided.

The show runs from Saturday, 17th – 25th September with a Private View on Tuesday 20th September. For more information or press "shots" please email camilla@ycnonline.com or call +44 (0)20 7033 2140.

 

UK Exhibition of Slingshots at YCN, 17-25 Sept

I have the pleasure of inviting you to YCN for the exclusive first UK exhibition of my slingshots. 

There will be a try before you buy firing range in store where you can test your aim and see what a paintball does to a wall when fired out of a hand crafted slingshot. Safety specks provided.

The show runs from Saturday, 17th – 25th September with the Private View on Tuesday 20th September. Contact YCN for more information. I hope to see you there.

Christopher

YCN, 72 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3AY
tel: +44 (0)20 7033 2140

Unit B1a Gallery - Hackney WickED 2011

Artworks on the walls by the very talented Jo Peel (www.jopeel.com)

Thanks to everyone who came to visit, it was a great weekend.

Christopher Jarratt / YCN Collaboration

Can't wait to Launch......

http://shop.ycnonline.com/news/post/christopher-jarratt-for-ycn/

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