roll up bags also out

see here yo

T-shirts! T-shirts!

I've decided to go ahead and post this anyway despite technical problems, .... T-shirts are now available via email to me (apologies!), so if you are of impatient demeanour (like me) email: shop@mimileung.co.uk

Sizes: S, M, L, XL
£28+£2 pp (UK Royal Mail First Class) (International £3.50)
Comes with signed, dated+numbered tag (and all carefully wrapped by me of course! x)

more little drawings today

oh, just remembered...

Ghost Hunter interview on/in Vice.
something I did for May/June's (?) Vice

Mimi Leung GOODBYE TURDBRAINS! @ Tenderpixel London, 16 July - 10 August

Would be great to see everyone at the PV (16 July 6 - 10pm) and/or the Q+A!(31 July,6pm)
(the gallery's down a fun street of antique book/map shops, just opposite china town/leicester square tube, click here for map)
To preview work from the show please click here!

some prep sketches for next picture....

hope to get it all done by tomorrow eve... hope so hope so
(drawn from mannequins of course, i have no life model... anyone offering?)

and yesterday...

spent not quite as long as 8hrs on a picture for my friend Ryan Sands' 'Electric Ant' zine, issue 2 subtitled These Bloody Moments. I based my pic on a trailer I saw for a pretty awful-looking gorefest, very loosely based... can you guess what it is? You'll have to pick up the issue to find out.... ! Should be out this September - will keep you posted.
Here's the sketch.... also - check out the impressive list of talent for issue 2 here

today...

got down to some haaard work and made a picture for an exciting venture with the ICA.
finally finished painting it, after about 8hrs! here's the sketch

art?

This Saturday 4th July, to celebrate independence and domestication, I will be presenting a video at The Wall Gallery in Highbury+Islington, along with a little sculpture. What kind of video you say? .... It's a video that takes place in my gut (seriously). Am currently burning it now. The show is on 2 - 6pm and curated by Joby Williamson and Edward Fornieles, with work by people like me and Hestia Peppé and ...more. What's the sculpture you say? well....

Pre-Show Sales Blog

Set up right here: Goodbye Turdbrains! Pre-Show Sales
Pieces here will be going for less than at the gallery, so take a look give me an email if you're into it.
Just sorting out my online stuff and the shop section of my website will be open for T-shirt sales and badges etc etc. Will keep updated here.
Enjoy the sun while it lasts x

oh yeh, oh yeh!

I picked up my T-shirts this week.
Am planning to do a quick photoshoot this weekend, but here's a sneaky peek at a bit of it.
They are 8 colour silkscreen, on American Apparel shirts, limited edition of 100. Available in S, M, L, XL. Official launch is JULY 16 the date of my private view at Tenderpixel. They will be available from the gallery shop&probably other fine merchants, which I'm still sorting out. You'll also be able to get them from my website of course (soon to be updated!!) More news on that soon. If you fancy dropping me an email to pre-order one in your size then please feel free, and I'll update you on payment methods as soon as I've got my act together.(shop@mimileung.co.uk)
Happy Weekend!!

woop! guitars!

Last year my friend, Sean Tierney, and I hatched out a deal between us.
He wanted me to paint up a guitar for him (or was it other way round?).
I said I'd do it if he made one for me also. Being the guitar master that he is, he said yes.
A while ago he emailed me some updates on the body prep, and today I got this -
a black one for him. Am excited to start this...
A very good reason to be heading back to HK at the end of August!

(though I've never painted on a guitar body... anyone have any tips??)

oh yeh -

my badges arrived the other day....!
These'll be on sale very soon! drop me an email if you're interested in them
(oh let me know which one, the one with the tongue is called "BagFace", the coloured one is called "LogFace")
They're about 2 x the size of a 'normal' badge (57mm diameter)
Hope you like them!

finished!

light's a bit off on this... can't be helped - my phone's been down-graded! am now on 1.3mp camera :(

new one... should have finished it a few days ago

but all the little details are taking a while.
i think i'll be making this into a nice A2 poster, run 25, for the summer show.
good idea?

(i think i got another day left of working on this....)

wow, i think 19 days

is the longest i've gone without putting anything up here. Being in UK's been busy...

Things that've been happening:
1 - working on pieces for London show@ Tenderpixel (see details here )
2 - designing products for London show (tshirts+bags)
3 - something that may be happening with Vice... still in development
4 - making Fall/Winter 09 Season visuals for Hong Kong department store LCX

and... playing a few gigs here and there as well as some long awaited catching up with friends!

Things should kick off again on here soon once the exhibition is nearing it's private view date along with website update etc etc

Will post more info/details soooooon!


Happy sunny days

after a crazy week/weekend in London

I'm back home and trying to adapt to my new working space/methods, can't wait
to settle into a 'proper' studio instead of running about all the time.
here's my makeshift lightbox, ingredients: old picture frame, tin foil, desk lamp, old trunk.
work on this has been slow, the glass keeps getting too hot and i think it'll crack!
may have to invest in some perspex...

Heavy Pencil @ ICA Bar tonight! FREE! 9 - 11+ pm

and, this month on the ICA bulletin - my picture! and a full page on the inside...

back in UK, new drawings

for Death Series

phew!! just in time (as usual) now to pack....

" Dead Cow "
This will be the first in a few pics on dead animals....`

last day here tomorrow

...so pushing to finish a picture tonight to leave tomorrow free for cleaning the house and the completely dog-wrecked garden. There'll be lots of raking... not packed a thing yet. Not looking forward to it either, don't want to leave here though my mind is always on London and the stuff I got to do there. Fast forward please.

Been reading more about this schweine flu business... hope our flight to UK doesn't get canceled. Last weekend I was mysteriously ill with aches and sick and bad belly :( but i doubt the lil piggies would've made their way all the way out to the middle of nowhere so quick. (will look out for any Mexicans...)

better get back to work

phu! a stinky toxic fun day

This morning I helped the local media company do a photoshoot for their new compilation CD.
We drove out to the dump for ideas .... we were looking for speakers to begin with but then dug out all the props necessary for an impromptu living room - 2 sofa chairs, a ukele, a tv, a table, a satellite dish (!) a few rugs and a couple of car doors (for novelty) etc AND!! there was a complete dead dog!! it was awesome. (will post pics when/if i get them cleared to go). we set up the shoot just on the other side of the fence where the air was less toxic and the fumes from the dump fires were blowing the other way. It was great - I wish I was an art director all the time.

a drawing i was supposed to paint this weekend..

but er... something happened. hard to explain really...

busy week

this week i painted about 5 pics for the show. this one's something i did as a test.
it's pretty silly.

new one done, for gallery window this july

(awaiting approval... and funds *~*)

///Luerzer's Archive "Best 200 Illustrators Worldwide 09/10"

Two of my pieces (Back!Back! and a spread for The Guardian's G2) have been selected by the Luerzer Archive for publication around June this year. This is pretty exciting for me... you can see pics of the 08/09 book here

Some text about it from the kakofonia website:
<< Lurzer's Archive 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide 07-08, a special publication of world famous Archive, is now finally published with more then 400 pages showcasing 200 illustrators from all over de world. Needless to say that inside the book you'll find the work of great illustrators ....... All illustrators were nominated by top art directors worldwide and the final selection was made by an international jury >>

new one, still working

(happy easter!)

Heavy Pencil @ ICA, Thursday May 7th. 9pm >> Free!

very excited to have been invited to do this! i get back into London on the 5th, should be fun way to see old friends again. if you are about please come and draw/dance along with us!

more info follow the link: Heavy Pencil

Little Pencil Workshop at ICA, London - May 7th!

Little Pencil
click on the link to see more!

page should be updated soon with more details of what I plan to do - if you have a child between 4 and 10 yrs old please come along and get your dance on

ah! nearly easter!

no painting, just drawing... a few things...

drawing 2, detail

drawing

lane crawford window on WGSN

my window (bottom right) on WGSN ("The worlds largest trend forcasting agency for the fashion industry")

more sketches

they're expanding...

oh also -

Ardentees interview here
(thanks to donovan!)

i haven't been lazy....

oops. such a long time without posts. ehe excuses.
i started doing some work at an art centre here, mixing paints for the artists. it's been pretty good.

some big names in the indigenous art world work here - if you have time google Judy Napangardi Watson and Shorty Jangala Robertson. last week Dorothy Napangardi was around. Her work is prob my fav at the moment - esp the early stuff.

well.. been to a few places in the country. a water dreaming place and a big hole in the ground and a nobbly hill called witches hat. been doing a few drawings on these.


oh yeh was in alice springs this weekend and someone was giving away puppies in the paper... we got the last one....

he's called Baldwin.

for vice uk