Gareth Courage

P o r t f o l i o

Constructed objects

Personal work (1999 - 2000)

Mixed Media assemblage

• Early work defined basics of visual language still in use now - mainly an exercise in mark making and sketching without using traditional drawing method

• 3D based but gives way to paper based collage constructions, mark making and assemblage • Defined use of composition and materials Sketchbooks developed into pure collage illustration us-

ing found materials - Particular emphasis on use of photography and typography• Images retain a drawn quality and freshness of manufacture• A mainly full set of the these can be found here• A full set of the “Music For Pleasure” collages can be found here.• Early photographic imagery produced with expired film, analog cameras, double exposure and

other obsolete technology. Now informs own digital photography aesthetics especially in the use of source material and colour palettes.

Visual language development & acquisition

“Music For Pleasure”

Personal work (2001)

Set of 60 drawings and collage on reclaimed vinyl record sleeves

Sketchbooks

Personal work (1999 - 2002)

Collage & drawings

Photography

Personal work (2002 - 2008)

Analog phoographs on expired film stock

• Updating of style and language in a purely digital manner after seeing the possibilities posed by Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.

• Built upon previous hand constructed work by using hi resolution scanning of paper ephemera • Use of photography integral and sourcing of suitable imagery becomes a priority• Copyright free sources from GIMP savvy and Flickr Commons• Ideas of story telling and narrative become relevant and important as the magazine format be-

comes more than just a “visual scrapbook” • VIEWER project complete after 8 issue and a printed “best of” issue 9• Archive on Flickr here and Issuu here.

Project #1 - VIEWER zine

Pages from “VIEWER”

Internet distributed magazine of Personal work (2006 - 2009)

Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator & InDesign

Pages from “VIEWER”

Internet distributed magazine of Personal work (2006 - 2009)

Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator & InDesign

“SUB”

Personal work (2009)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Long Wave”

Personal work (2009)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Twenty Thousand”

Personal work (2009)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“The Crystal Lake”

Personal work (2009)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“First Fold Records”

Promotional illustrations for First Fold Records artists (2009)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

• Illustration brief to produce photographs for promotional imagery. Decided to get recording artists to submit there own photos that were then “remixed”

• Some artists declined to submit photo so visual work was created around the play on the artists name and the sound of the music produced.

• Illustrations produced on A4 with repeated visual elements - every image had a grid, cross, circle, a vector “scribble” and a fragment from a scanned image - all had a highly “textural” feel.

• Ongoing project has developed but imagery still retain the idea of repeated visual elements al-though now in a less rigid, formal manner.

• Full catalogue on flickr here.

Project #2 - First Fold Artist Illustrations

“First Fold Records”

Preliminary sketches, original images and finished designs (2009)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Magnetophone”

Promotional illustration for First Fold Records artist (2009)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“A Small Party Of Pressure”

Promotional illustration for First Fold Records artist (2012)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Arc Vel”

Promotional illustration for First Fold Records artist (2012)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Amonism”

Promotional illustration for First Fold Records artist (2012)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“From the ashes of industry we rise...”

Preliminary illustrations for First Fold (2010)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

• Complete body of work of for CDs, design and illustration from concept to execution• “from the ashes of industry, we rise” was used as inspirational text and images were sourced from

Flickr Commons.• Source imagery used explored themes of social photography, documentary photography (esp

industrial and military) as well as any collection of imagery which initial purpose was now lost or insignificant.

• Repeated uses of tone, texture composition across imagery.• Exhibition of work and short documentary video reproduced here• Photographs of exhibition here.• Full list of exhibits here

Project #3 - “from the ashes of industry, we rise...”

First Fold Series source material, CD covers and reverse for series #1 & #2 CDs (2010)

Digital photographs (own work) , Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

Papa November - Book Two - The Well

Download art for First Fold Records (2010)

Photoshop &, Illustrator

The Resource Centre - The Resource Centre Series - EP1

Download art for First Fold Records

Photoshop &, Illustrator

“The Only One To Return That Night” ”

Personal work (2011)

Photoshop & Illustrator

“Chromastistes”

Personal work (2011)

Photoshop & Illustrator

Source images and finished illustrations

Personal work (1999 - 2002)

Photoshop & Illustrator

Source images and finished magazine adverts

First Fold (1999 - 2002)

Photoshop & Illustrator

“I do not want art for a few any more than I want education for a few, or freedom for a few”

Pages for Premier Pli issue #1 (2011)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

• Body of personal work developed with eBay sourced antique slides These number over 600 and are the output of an amateur photographer in the 1950’s to the 1970’s - mainly holidays and family holidays. A current set of the images scanned so far can be seen here. An ongoing project identifying locations in the slides using Google Streetmap can be seen here.

• Developed into material for Premier Pli theme based art journal (2 issues) • Although images retain elements of previous work an attempt to mimic rough, hand cut imagery

and a quick cut and paste aesthetic were achieved in response to the very considered and neat work from the previous project. The use of unknown but very personal imagery added a peculiar distance but also weight to the imagery.

• Work was developed for First Fold and featured on CDs covers and live event posters.

Project #4 - Irreversible, Premier Pli & B.O.Y.D

“I don’t like nostalgia unless its my own”

Covers & inner spreads for Premier Pli issue #2 (2012)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Irreversable”

Personal work based upon Ebay sourced box of slides (2011 - present)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Irreversable”

Personal work based upon Ebay sourced box of slides (2011 - present)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Irreversable”

Personal work based upon Ebay sourced box of slides (2011 - present)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Irreversable”

Personal work based upon Ebay sourced box of slides (2011 - present)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Bring Out Your Dead”

Poster and Flyer designs for First Fold Records live events (2012)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Bring Out Your Dead”

Poster and Flyer designs for First Fold Records live events (2012)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“All the nice Japanese girls love a metal head”

SoundKitchen Sketch (2012)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

• Commission to develop new visual identity for local experimental music promoters• Used Flickr commons to source imagery related to brief• Used newer cut and paste production with source images from older work• Imagery attempted to visually create the sound of the music that Soundkitchen might promote.

Project #5 - Soundkitchen

“Tutonic Tuba”

SoundKitchen Sketch (2012)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

“Waving & Raving To The Funnel Heads”

SoundKitchen Sketch (2012)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

Soundkitchen - initail pitch image and source photograph

Poster and Flyer designs for Soundkitchen live events (2012)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

Soundkitchen 2013

SoundKitchen Poster (2013)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

Soundkitchen 2013 (with text)

SoundKitchen Poster (2013)

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

# 01 Noise & amplified tubasThursday 28 February, 8pm

Roadside Picnic / oRe / sZiLÁRd

# 02 Improvised music from MopomosoTuesday 23 April, 8pm

evan PaRkeR tRio / aLex waRd & kay gRant duo /Pat tHoMas / Benedict tayLoR, david LeaHy & aLison BLunt

In association with Sound and Music

# 03 Live electroacousticsThursday 23 May, 8pm

RoBeRt cuRgenven / anviL and stiRRuP and more

# 04 Jazz, improvisation and live electronicsThursday 18 July, 8pm

LeaFcutteR JoHn / goniMoBLast and more

Tickets available from hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk

Hare and Hounds106 High stkings Heath

B14 7tZ

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illustration by garethcourage.co.uk