SCREENADELICA AT LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY- FINAL MUSIC LINE UP

DIEGO MENA INTERVIEW

Here's a little 'getting to know you' interview with one of Screenadelica's exhibiting artists' Diego Mena.

His amazing prints will be able to buy at the Screenadelica for Liverpool Sound City exhibition in May and you can view more of his work in the Artists section on this blog, or at www.didacus.co.uk

Where are you from and where are you now?

Madrid-London

How would you describe your style of work?

Apparently it's kind of abstract. People have told me that anyway. I'd say it varies but I'm definitely interested in patterns and I don't like making things too figurative. I'm going to try to incorporate more collages in the posters in the future, as this is another part of my work and I'd like to merge it with screen printing.

How did you start designing posters?

Well I was always involved with music, weather playing or organising gigs or working in the music industry, so it was only a matter of time before the design and screen printing creeped in. It's not just posters but also record covers and such. I have talked about it with a bunch of other poster artists and we came to the conclusion that it's our way of still being involved in music.

What's the nicest thing someone has said about your work?

Luke Drozd told me one of my posters was in someone's wedding list of presents. I thought that was pretty cool.

 

Take us through an average day designing for you.

Ride my bike to my studio, sit on my desk, get frustrated and eventually come up with something I'm happy with, I guess. I try to not have too many average days though, they're kinda boring.

What have you got lined up for the future?

I'm doing a poster for Group Inerane, a great band from Niger and a poster for the Oxes show in London, which is a bit of a dream come true. I'm collaborating with Heretic Printmakers for the Inerane poster. That should be fun. I'm doing a lot of freelance screen printing and hopefully I'll be pushing my printmaking practice to further limits.

SCREENADELICA at LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY

Once again Liverpool Sound City and Screenadelica are combining forces, all in the aim of a cracking weekend on May 17th-19th.

Liverpool Sound City is a weekend mini festival where the bars and clubs of Liverpool are overtaken with live music ad events throughout the daytime and late into the evenings.

Screenadelica will be holding an exhibition running alongside the event, exhibiting and selling artists prints and screen prints for the gigs from a wealth of great artists.

Screenadelica is announcing some incredible poster artists exhibiting this year and we will be posting more information and maybe some sneaky interviews in the next few weeks as well as updates on what we're getting up to in 2012.

SEAN MORT, TOBY WHITEBREAD, PETTING ZOO, HORSE, LUKE DROZD, TINY LITTLE HORSE, DIEGO MENA, ARMY OF CATS, MICHAEL COWELL, HANDCOOKED POSTERS, ERROR(SPAIN), TWO DUCKS DISCO, L'IL TUFFY(USA), JUSTIN SANTORA(USA), WETHREECLUB, BRAG, DREW MILLWARD, FUGSCREEN STUDIOS(USA), KATE PRIOR, ADAM POBIAK, CRAIG ROBSON, SWITCHOPEN, JACKNIFE, TELEGRAMME.

Take a look at the Gallery section to see photos of the 2011 exhibition and also

 www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk

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Doe Eyed

Hailing from Midwest America, Doe Eyed is the collective efforts of artists Eric Nyffeler and Michael Neilsen. 

Hand printed limited edition prints are available here DoeEyed

Rich Kelly

Yep, these are screen printed! A really distinctive style, take a look at Rich Kelly's work and check out the bio on his website, it's a really thoughtful way of introducing himself. RFKELLY