A few months back I met Faythe Levine, the co-author and director of Handmade Nations while she was in Melbourne for an event or ten. You know when you meet someone and you get that feeling you have met them before..kind of other wordly.
She is truly inspiring. If you haven't seen the documentary or read the book - go and get it.
And keep an eye out for June/July Readymade Magazine where Faythe crafts some of her favourite folk...and somehow Camilla Engman and Third Drawer Down got a mention.
A thousand-frame-per-second camera captures amazing footage of people spraying snot everywhere. Imagine what will happen when the porn industry finds out about this.
Hi,
Apart of my nature is to want 'things' - objects or publications that are in circulation but sometimes hard to find.
Issue #1 of Apartamento magazine is one of these wants.
If anyone out there has a spare copy or they part with their only copy, please email me.
Kez Hughes work citing 'Untitled' by Louise Bourgeois
Paintings of Souvenirs from Third Drawer Down
By Kez Hughes
EXHIBITION DATES: 30th May to 13th June
EXHIBITION OPENS: Saturday 30th May
TIME: 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Souvenirs from museum and gallery visits provide material links to the past. Souvenirs aim to provide a personal connection to the various events they represent. The Museum of Souvenirs at Third Drawer Down produces souvenirs in lieu of the commemorative exhibition. Souvenirs are born directly from an artist’s collaboration or interference with a mug or tea towel. The object itself is the event. The limited-edition tea towel, cup and saucer or plate mark themselves as the artwork and limited edition product created for The Museum of Souvenirs.
Our domestic spaces accumulate art merchandise. These commodified objects reference high-art origins yet assume new meanings. A handkerchief designed by Louise Bourgeois is art and yet it is also functional, and exists between art and mass culture. By purchasing this item we can identify and expose our own knowledge and appreciation of high art yet purchase it an accessible price.
In “Don't Let Go” artist Kez Hughes borrows and repositions items produced by Third Drawer Down and transfigures them into into traditional still life paintings.
Now I am not sure what to think of this production by HBO of the amazing Grey Gardens when you have Drew Barrymore playing Little Eddie.....but I thought I would post it anyway, as the original Grey Gardens by the Mayles Brothers is so great that it may tempt you to watch this real thing anyway. The original production is distributed by Criterion films.
Keep an eye out for the Decalzine by Maya Hayuk for Third Drawer Down in May. We thought you might be interested to know more about Maya, so we have attached this youtube documentary produced by Etsy.
Maya is also working another collaboration with us - to be released later in the year....hint is - something textile based but we can't tell you what (yet). David Shrigley is also apart of this secret squirrel project too.
Other artists in the decalzine collection include: Dylan Martorell (AUS), Seth Scriver (CAN) and Arlene Textaqueen (AUS). Decalzines are interactive colouring books. Each artist has designed a sheet of dry-transfer decals (rub down), which are included in each collectible zine, and readers are encouraged to draw on, decorate and embellish their zine.
Third Drawer Down decalzines are distributed by Idea Books
Third Drawer Down has been working in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery by producing the inaugural editions for the relaunch. We will present the objects produced mid April online at Whitechapel Gallery and Third Drawer Down
The Whitechapel Art Gallery was founded in 1901 to bring great art to the people of east London. Internationally acclaimed for its exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and its pioneering education and public events programmes, the Gallery has premiered international artists such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Nan Goldin, and provided a showcase for Britain’s most significant artists from Gilbert & George to Lucian Freud, Peter Doig to Mark Wallinger.
For all those keen to know what we will be selling at the ARCHIVE EVENT on Saturday 21st March - please see the list below.
If you are not able to make it due to work or geographical reasons, please email Samantha on sales@thirddrawerdown.com and she can work out other ways you may be able to have your dream come true.
Tell Me When - David Shrigley
Static White Noise - David Wlazlo
Mamma – James Gallagher
Boy in Interior - David Bromley
Nesting in Trees – Sarajo Frieden
She Danced – Emma Magenta
Allegory – Andrew Nicholls
Waescheleine – Lilli Hartmann
The Love Phone – Samuel Sparrow
Mercurial Map of the South – Helen Johnson
A Rainy Room – Chaco Kato
She Cocooned – Emma Magenta
Fed up of Being Domestic – Zara Woods
Good Morning – Holly Story
Portrait of Modern Art as a Sanitary System – Margaret Morgan
Oil on Linen – Peter Tyndall
The memory of Things – Royal Art Lodge
Cloud Spill - Jeff Ladocuer
Birthday #10 - Catherine Ryan
Child Throwing Food - Jenny Watson
Wrestling – Carson Ellis
Deer Missing - Greg Fullerton
Musical Chairs - Edwina White
Pandarosa Tablerunners
Little Spanish Shoe – Kat MacLeod
Bird and Man - Lori Jean Kirk
Leash - Lori Jean Kirk
