Steel Jungle – new installation in Newcastle + Print RELEASE

November 10, 2022 | Florence EMA Blanchard

STEEL JUNGLE 2022: New public art installation in Newcastle UK

I’m very pleased to announce the unveiling of my newest public art commission: A stepped mural on Queen St, Quayside Newcastle UK. Taken inspiration from the colours of Tyne brigdge, I re-worked a design I previously painted on a canvas before the pandemic – see first version on photo below.
Thanks Unit44 gallery and Newcastle NE1 for inviting me to design this stepped mural© Ben Hughes

To celebrate this new installation I produced a limited series of prints available to purchase on my online shop:

https://florenceblanchard.bigcartel.com/product/steel-jungle

BELOW: STEEL JUNGLE Print
approx 50 x 70 cm
Giclée print
Edition size: 50

Inspired by recent travels to the great Northern UK and Celebrating 10+ years of living in Sheffield. Printed in Sheffield.

On view at the Sheffield Print Fair at Millennium Gallery on Saturday this coming weekend.

Sheffield Print Fair 2022

Sat, 12 Nov, 10:00–16:00

Millennium Gallery
48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield

New Indoor mural in Shoreditch

January 30, 2020 | Florence EMA Blanchard

I just came back from London where I spent a week working on an indoor mural for a private commission. As the design was going to cover the entire surface of one wall, and the rest of the room being already full with art we decided to go for a limited colour palette.

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Steel Jungle – New painting

August 30, 2019August 30, 2019 | Florence EMA Blanchard

My latest commission: 180cm x 180cm, acrylic on canvas hand-made and installed in Sheffield UK.

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La Grand Arche Paris

July 3, 2017 | Florence EMA Blanchard

This summer I’ll be taking part in 2 interesting exhibitions: Adventures in Modern Abstraction at Stolen Space gallery in London, and This Will Ruin Everything at The Light House in Glasgow.

Last month I went to Paris to paint on the 19th floor of iconic building La Grande Arche. Pretty cool hollow cubic building from the late 80’s which is aligned with Champs Elysée, L’Arc de Triomphe and Le Louvre!

From wikipedia: ‘A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president François Mitterrand. Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engineer Erik Reitzel designed the winning entry to be a late-20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than military victories. La Grande Arche was inaugurated in July 1989, with grand military parades that marked the bicentennial of the French Revolution. It completed the line of monuments that forms the Axe historique running through Paris.’