bocs

Wow, we’ve finally launched, and the christmas bocs nadolig private view went well, if a little bit hectic at the last moment….

We had a really strong show with work by some really interesting artists, all chosen by members of bocs.

Exhibiting Artists

• Alexis Snell, chosen by Charlie Yorke
• Catherine Howell, chosen by James Toms
• Dyfrig Peris, chosen by Iestyn Owen
• Elgan Jones, chosen by Huw Erddyn
• Mick Brown, chosen by Gethin Wavell Lloyd Jones
• Naomi Lethbridge, chosen by Siân Green
• Paul Johnson, chosen by Yvonne Tsang
• Poked Studio, chosen by Sally Kwong
• Robert Pepperell, chosen by Meirion Alan Ginsberg
• Rosie Seymore, chosen by Sevan Garo Nigogosian
• Simeon Coxe, chosen by Rhys Lloyd Jones
• Stephen John Owen, chosen by Dafydd Hardy

We even had a couple of pieces produced by bocs members and of course, we also had our bocs boxes. This is the Super Secret Souvenir I mentioned earlier, over 100 miniature bocs boxes that have been customised by one of our members, our Christmas gift for you to take away.

Bedwyr Williams was kind enough to open the exhibition for us with an inspiring speech, whilst Ioan Thomas launched our bocs co-operative with a pop of the champagne cork.

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Paul “Otaking” Johnson creates his own brand of anime illustrations and animations. His work is vibrant, eclectic, obsessively detailed and is largely influenced by Japanese and Korean artists, most notably Masamune Shirow, Ryūsuke Mita, Satoshi Urushihara and Hyung-tae Kim.

Paul slaves away over a hot computer to produce all of the artwork and animation for indie games company, Studio Trophis, as well as producing his own extensive body of work.

He also loves to court controversy, garnering the ire of many when he released his documentary on “The Rise and Fall of Anime Fansubs“. He certainly doesn’t shy away from the fire when it comes to his strongly held views.

Somehow, he manages to do all this whilst still doing his job as a professional Japanese-English video games translator.

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Well, just got back from the gruelling trek down to Cardiff to pick up some pieces for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition from two of the bocs choice artists, Robert Pepperell and Poked Studio. Surely there should be an easier way to get from North Wales down to South Wales?

Anyway, whilst I was in the Cardiff School of Art and Design, looking for Robert Pepperell, I had a good nosy and peeked into the studios, it looks like they do some interesting stuff down there. The pick-up there was relatively quick, even if there was a hairy moment in the lift.

After a spot of sushi, we went round to Poked Studio and picked up two of his pieces, the cloud’s revenge and March of Progress. Whilst I was there, I got to have a nice chat with Jon, met his partner and asked lots of questions about his work and how to work as a graphic artist/illustrator.

It was unfortunate that whilst I was trying to show Jon some of the photos from Dan Ponting (one of the artists we’ve had in the past) when the broken image on Dan’s website came up, just as his partner walked in. She must have thought I was showing him some strange stuff.

I’m really thankful that they gave me so much time… I hope I didn’t get in the way too much.

Robert Pepperell is Meirion Alan Ginsberg’s choice and
Poked Studio is Sally Kwong’s choice for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition.