Sheffield

Your Hands, Your Feet, Your Voice

| Florence EMA Blanchard

Kid Acne and I were recently invited to paint the world renowned St Thomas’ Boys & Girls Club in Wincobank, Sheffield – where more boxing champions have been produced than anywhere else on the planet thanks to the unique training style of Brendan Ingle who took over the gym in the mid sixties.

His success stories include the likes of Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham, Johnny Nelson, Junior Witter, Ryan Rhodes, Kell Brook, Kid Galahad, Richard Towers and of course, Prince Naseem Hamed.

Here’s some shots of our mural + additional portraits by Theo Simpson. The scroll on the painting says“Your Hands, your Feet, Your Voice” – Brendan’s own words of wisdom, which refers to his maverick approach of getting students to sing while they train as a means to coordinate their movements and stay focussed.

↑ Junior Witter

↑ Kid Galahad

↑ L-R: Richard Towers, Kid Galahad, Johnny Nelson, Abraham Homer, Leigh Wood, Sam O’Maison, Junior Witter.

Special thanks to Bridget Ingle for organising everything.

NEW BRIGANTIA – new exhibition in Sheffield.

| Florence EMA Blanchard

I’m working on a new series of works for my future exhibition at A Month of Sundays Gallery which will open on June 15 in Sheffield UK (see flyer below). It’ll be mainly works on paper but this time I’m introducing colours and gold leaf! Here is a glimpse of the last piece I just finished.

The Island of Misfit Toys – new exhibition

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Opening: Thursday 07/07/11

A.P.G. Works

16-20 Sidney Street, Sheffield, England S1 4RH
Tel 00 44  (0) 114 263 4493

For this new exhibition at A.P.G. Works Parisian artists EMA and ANACAO explore the contrast between dark and cute in a fantastic world. The Island of Misfit Toys represents a gloomy universe populated by vintage, romantic and strange toys inspired by Japanese pop animation, 70’s science fiction and graffiti. New series of oil paintings, drawings and screen prints introduce us to an island of monstrous squids, half-human half-beast hybrids and muscular super heroes lost in a cataclysmic atmosphere of falling meteorites and floral patterns

 

Levi’s travelling journals and A.P.G. WORKS silkscreening

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Due to my ‘involvement in the use of art and design to encourage social change and empower other individuals’, I have been selected by Levi’s to participate to an international art project. This collaborative work will be presented at the next TED Women’s Conference in Washington next December.

I had one week to inscribe my thoughts on 4 pieces of paper, which will eventually be included in hand made books together with that of other participants. The books are being made by a team of book binders from Etsy.

As I am currently doing a residency with A.P.G. WORKS a printing studio in Sheffield, UK, I used their facility and their help to silkscreen onto the pages, and made a mini book populated by dropmen and synchrotronic waves.