In association with the Anchor Archive Zine Library, the Ink Storm
Screenprinting Collective, and the Roberts Street Social Centre's
artist-in-residence programme, DUSTY PEAS presents their new
silk-screened zine and assemble-it-yourself paper sculpture:
A Journey Through Time & Shapes
with Dusty Peas
LAUNCHING ACROSS EASTERN CANADA SUMMER 2009
HALIFAX – Roberts Street Social Centre, 5684 Roberts St., Wednesday, July 29th, 7:00 pm
SACKVILLE – Sappy Fest Zine Fair, United Church, Saturday, August 1st, 12:00 – 4:00 pm
MONTREAL – Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard, Wednesday, August 5th, 7:00 pm
TORONTO – Art Metropole, 788 King St. W., Saturday, August 8th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
LONDON – Forest City Gallery, 258 Richmond St., with musical guests, Thursday, August 13th, 8:00 pm
A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME & SHAPES:
This two-part limited edition is a product of the Roberts Street Social Centre's artist-in-residence programme in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The hand-silkscreened book includes prints of images built up using collage techniques, as well as Dusty Peas’ otherworldly paintings. A companion to the deluxe zine, the Journey Through Time & Shapes DIY print/sculpture requires your participation to reach its next level of existence. With some scissors and glue, you can build your own spacecraft. It is decorated and designed with the playful shapes of Dusty Peas, whose work combines absurdity and abstraction through intuitive freestyle processes.
ABOUT DUSTY PEAS:
James Kirkpatrick and Jamie Q are Dusty Peas, a London Ontario-based collaborative team that makes art in a variety of media. Their drawings, sculptures, self-published zines, and stop-motion animations are at once both calculated and haphazard, and speak to the generative possibilities of constructive fun and good old-fashioned imagination.
Jamie Q studied sculpture at the Alberta College of Art and Design, and at the Canberra School of Art in Australia. She received her BFA in 2002, and was a member of the Long Haul artists’ collective in Montreal for four years. She is currently working towards a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Western Ontario, where her research interests involve DIY distribution strategies, creative labour, and the production of value in the cultural field.
James Kirkpatrick received his BFA from NSCAD University in 2002. His work has been shown internationally, and is featured in the traveling group exhibition Pulp Fiction, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in summer 2009. He is also well known as the graffiti artist and rapper Thesis Sahib. He has created artwork for several album covers, and his collaborative art book with Peter Thompson, Brain Trust, is published by Anteism.
This two-part limited edition is a product of the Roberts Street Social Centre's artist-in-residence programme in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The hand-silkscreened book includes prints of images built up using collage techniques, as well as Dusty Peas’ otherworldly paintings. A companion to the deluxe zine, the Journey Through Time & Shapes DIY print/sculpture requires your participation to reach its next level of existence. With some scissors and glue, you can build your own spacecraft. It is decorated and designed with the playful shapes of Dusty Peas, whose work combines absurdity and abstraction through intuitive freestyle processes.
ABOUT DUSTY PEAS:
James Kirkpatrick and Jamie Q are Dusty Peas, a London Ontario-based collaborative team that makes art in a variety of media. Their drawings, sculptures, self-published zines, and stop-motion animations are at once both calculated and haphazard, and speak to the generative possibilities of constructive fun and good old-fashioned imagination.
Jamie Q studied sculpture at the Alberta College of Art and Design, and at the Canberra School of Art in Australia. She received her BFA in 2002, and was a member of the Long Haul artists’ collective in Montreal for four years. She is currently working towards a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Western Ontario, where her research interests involve DIY distribution strategies, creative labour, and the production of value in the cultural field.
James Kirkpatrick received his BFA from NSCAD University in 2002. His work has been shown internationally, and is featured in the traveling group exhibition Pulp Fiction, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in summer 2009. He is also well known as the graffiti artist and rapper Thesis Sahib. He has created artwork for several album covers, and his collaborative art book with Peter Thompson, Brain Trust, is published by Anteism.
