Girls Girls Girls

About

Running from 17th May - 18th June 2017, ‘Girls Girls Girls’ group show is exclusive to Jealous North and features an array of screenprinted and original works from each artist, which includes Ceal Warnants, Jess Wilson, Magda Archer, Sadie Hennessy, Sarai Vardi, and Shuby.

Exhibiting a series of multi-disciplinary works, ‘Girls Girls Girls’ will demonstrate the kitsch, subversive, humourous, dark and absurd, as created by a small selection of Jealous female artists, all of whom take a different approach to producing and making art, but have printmaking form a component of their practice.

Placed alongside some of our most popular screenprinted editions from Jealous Print Studio, we will also be showing Jess Wilson’s infamously renegade sculptural lightswitch works, Shuby’s cheeky ‘Fuck You Pants’, and Sadie Hennessy’s glass encased ceramic ‘British Humour (Tits)’ among many more witty works.

Head down to Jealous North to feast your eyes on these fabulous female contemporary artists, bringing their brash, bright and downright brilliant works to Crouch End.

Ceal Warnants graduated from The Royal College of Art MA in 2008, and has gained several awards for her work. Ceal’s practice delves into the dark side of British culture focusing particularly on ideas of youth and innocence. Creating subversive images of childhood that question nostalgic, saccharine depictions of growing up, Ceal’s work is both darkly comic and disturbingly truthful.

Jess Wilson is an illustrator and printmaker, and has been living and working in London since graduating in 2006. Using crayons, paints, ink and paper to create her unique illustrations and typographic works, she draws inspirations from humourous occurrences which happen around her in real life and in the media. Jess has worked with top clients producing jobs for clients such as Uniqlo, Financial Times, Meat Magazine, “HUSTLE”, Starbucks and many more.

Magda Archer is a London-based artist and printmaker. Magda's prints first appeared in the cult show 'Kiss of a lifetime’ at Vane, Newcastle in 2009. Her first solo exhibition 'Crazy Mad' was in 2011 at The Cornerhouse, Manchester. Since then she has exhibited in 'London Calling’ at The Idea Generation Gallery, and alongside Richard Long at The Royal Academy of Arts, London. Magda's work has been used by a variety of different companies from Blue Q in the U.S. to the SHIRT campaign for Commes des Garcons in 2012.

Sadie Hennessy graduated from Central St. Martins College in 2010 with an MA in Fine Art. In 2010 she was selected as the inaugural artist at the Lautrec Gallery at Chelsea Arts Club. Sadie’s work is concerned with absurdity and poignancy, operating within a cultural frameworks of ‘Englishness’. Unsettling her audiences and eliciting a jolt of recognition, Sadie is not afraid of using humour to create a reaction.

Sarai Vardi is an artist based in West Yorkshire. She graduated from an animation and illustration degree from Kingston University in 2009 before completing a MA Conservation course at Camberwell. Now working as a Book Conservator, Sarai still draws and also creates cermaics with her work being influenced by vintage matchboxes, seventies porn and comic books.

Shuby uses print, collage, paint and photography to create original reinterpretations that revel in absurdity, kitsch and irony. Her cheeky variations are almost dream-like in their Technicolor intensity. Shuby has also made a large amount of street art that includes paste ups and spray painted shutters. Using the banana motif throughout her studio work and on the street, Shuby has created a naughty but innocent calling card that is instanntly recognizable and humourous.

Jealous is a Contemporary Screenprint Studio, Gallery and Publisher based in Crouch End Shoreditch. Established in 2008, we are known for our collaborative approach to producing high quality limited edition prints with many illustrators, graduates and established artists. Our editions can be seen at many of the art fairs we attend including START Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery, Art 15, The London Original Print Fair (LOPF) at The Royal Academy, The London Art Fair, Moniker and the AAF internationally.

Our diverse educational programme includes working with primary schools on site specific art projects whilst the Jealous Prize invites MA’s from London’s art colleges to make an all expenses paid edition with Jealous. These editions then form part of the V&A’s permanent print collection. An ongoing project called Jealous Needs You is also run, where, from open submission, we publish editions with many illustrators, designers and emerging artists.

Our work can be found in many galleries and institutions including Tate Modern, Eyestorm, Saatchi Gallery, The Imperial War Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum, and internationally with Signed and Numbered in Melbourne, Less is More Projects in Paris, Carmichael Gallery in LA, Culture Gallery in Cape Town and Taglialatella Fine Art in New York as well as the recently completed Conran Hotel South Place in London, Ming Hotel in Berlin, Soho House and The Groucho.

Our client work includes White Cube, Saatchi Gallery, The Fine Art Society, Pentagram, Why Not Associates, Graphic Thought Facility, The British Film Institute and the V&A, to name but a few. Our recent projects include publishing Charming Baker’s new editions with Paul Stolper Gallery to coincide with his S2 Sotheby’s Mayfair solo show. We have worked with street artist Ben Eine and The Big Issue, designing three collectable covers to celebrate their 200 millionth copy, created editions for their commemorative issue, and hosted a televised event in our Shoreditch space with founder Lord John Bird. We have worked with Gemma Peppé and Art on A Postcard, a project raising funds for The Hepatitis C Trust, publishing charity editions, and presented 'The Best Of Art on a Postcard 2016' show in our Shoreditich space with David Shrigley, Gavin Turk, Ray Richardson, The Connor Brothers, amongst many others.