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I am so lucky to be invited by Harvey Nichols to exhibit my Fairy-God, Fashion-Mother drawings, tribute to Diane Pernet and commissioned by ATOPOS cvc, Greece. They were also kind enough to exhibit one Dead Man’s Patterns Memento Mori Skull edition No.9…A very big thanks to Kevin Knox from Sheridan&Co (my realtime fairy god mother who lent me the Easels for the show) and Paul Finucane, Emma Lindhorst, Nasrin Mostoufi & the lovely Gary Sykes (also in the photos below) from Harvey Nichols who made all this possible.

This intimate showcase is on until the 30th of April in the Personal Shopping Suites…

I’m also very thankful to my good friend John Hannah who photographed the exhibition and as always Madame Diane Pernet for her constant support of my practice.

I am really excited to announce that I have been selected to represent myself at “the other art fair” hosted by Ryan Stanier. The fair gives galleries and collectors an opportunity to meet artists directly – so this is perhaps going to be a very exciting moment for me. It takes place between 10th – 13th May 2012 at P3 Ambika Space (at the University of Westminster, coincidentally it was the venue that hosted my graduation show at Westminster)…more to follow – thank you very much the other art fair for selecting me.

Really excited to be featured in Jotta’s inaugural magazine, which is out available to purchase. The magazine comprises of 5 posters with the articles published on the reverse. Also excited when the editors approached me to print Oscar Hodgepodge as one of the posters

To purchase the magazine please visit Jotta.com

Thanks to Lawrence McGovern for putting this film together. It was indeed a very magical moment for me…many thanks to all who came and celebrated the night with me.

Dead Man’s Patterns – Memento Mori Skull

(Limited edition: 50 original artworks) Skull No. 1, 6,7 and 8 SOLD

£395.00

Dimensions of overall piece: L: 20 cm, W: 15 cm, D: 16 cm

A paper collage 3-d object stapled and glued created from bespoke Savile Row patterns (of deceased customers) placed in an unsealed archival acrylic clear case with detritus from the making process of each skull on the floor of its case.

They are available to view until Sunday 4th March at Sheridan & Co, 10A Blandford Street, London W1U 4AZ or alternatively to acquire online please visit the shop.

Photo courtesy – Garry Summers

Please visit photographer Gary Summers‘s site for more photos of the event.

A big thank you once again to Michael and Julien Sheridan  of Sheridan&co for hosting and sponsoring my show Dead Man’s Patterns – Memento Mori. It was indeed a very special night for me – Thanks to all who came and I’m so thrilled that some of the skulls are going to lovely homes.

The show is on until the weekend of the 4th of March – so do pop down to 10A Blandford Street, London W1U 4AZ

To view the work up close visit Sheridan & Co, 10A Blandford Street, London W1U 4AZ until 3rd March 2012. To acquire visit here.

Please visit Matin’ Kousidi’s beautiful blog Architecouture to see more photos she took of my exhibition.

For his Memento Mori exhibition Homi asked if I could provide some sort of looping ambient video title projection. Perhaps one of his paper skulls in an acrylic box slowly rotating he suggested. As a software artist I have a prejudice against looping video. However I’m also lazy and don’t want to write software unless I really have to. And so this is what I came up with. I used the lovely wide-screed HD DLP projector that was available to project nothing but the title and an empty square canvas. The skull in a box is hanging by a fishing line between the projector and the wall rotating freely in the air currents. The result is an “analogue projection” with unsurpassed resolution and frame-rate, otherwise known as a shadow. Satisfyingly simple  See narielwalla.com/2012/02/20/dead-mans-patterns-memento-mori-skull-show-installed ” – Ed Burton

Thanks to artist-friend Ed Burton for his collaborations for my show – the light projection is rather splendid. Please visit Sheridan & Co at 10A Blandford Street, London W1U 4AZ to view the projection installation, three-dimensional and two-dimensional skulls and my first book Dead Man’s Patterns..

A big thank you to Julien & Michael Sheridan for hosting this show, Kevin Knox the Retail Design Director  for al logistics and productions to see the show through, my dear friend and artist Ed Burton for the analogue light projection, which looks splendid, Fiona Gilgrist of Housepr for all her efforts in promoting the show, India Warman from Sheridan for working on the show, Steve Thomas Head of Design at Sheridan for his help in poster and projection design, Shawn (in the photo) and Wayne for being my muscle for installing the show and finally Julie Shipston who’s invaluable support helped to make this show a realisation.

Hope you can make it to Sheridan&Co at 10A Blandford Street, London W1U 4AZ  between today and the 3rd of March..

Just uploaded a new work titled Regalia – please visit Saatchi online for details.

Thank you Design Week for this rather nice preview of Dead Man’s Patterns – Memento Mori show at Sheridan&Co 10A Blandford Street, London W1U 4AZ.

It was indeed a pleasure to receive an e-mail from Saatchi online to say that my work (Dead Man’s Patterns – Memento Mori Skull) was featured on their Homepage – I guess it’s a nice conciliation since I didn’t get through their Showdown competition…I’m also pleased that they showed this work in their ‘drawing’ collection along with 18 other artists from all over the world..It challenges the conception on what is a drawing?

It’s exciting that this would happen now as the Skulls along with the artworks will go on display on Monday 20th for 2 weeks until the 3rd March at one of my patrons Sheridan & Co 10A Blandford Street London, Greater London W1U 4AZ..

I woke up this morning to receive a very kind e-mail from Helena Tepli, Editor-In-Chief of Semprey Magazine. She wrote – “Thank you for sending me a press release about your upcoming exhibition and congratulations on your success! I read the text attached with great interest. What a unique and creative concept! Information about the exhibition has been published on our magazine’s website in the Culture section.” Thank you Helena – see you at the show, I hope!

Accompanying the three-dimensional skulls is a parallel series of two-dimensional collages. Each three-dimensional skull is cut from a dead man’s pattern, leaving precious remains of his imprint. I have used the remains, the absence of the skull, to make a two dimensional collage revealing a silhouette of the skull in negative space. All artworks can be viewed here and available to acquire here.

Thanks to Kirstin Knox (the lady behind the Clothes whisper blog) for a preview. She touched on something quite sentimental – when she heard about the skulls made from Savile Row patterns – the first thing that came to her mind was Lee McQueen  who began his career as an apprentice for one of the tailoring houses on Savile Row. To read the whole article please visit the Clothes Whisperer.

Thank you Diane for featuring my exhibit on your beloved www.ashadedviewonfashion.com – I hope you are able to make the show…peace & love – Hormazd x

Richard James – one of the new Establishment tailoring houses on Savile Row has written such kind words about my work on his blog. He describes my work as Patterns of life and proposed an interesting proposition – customers who wish to create personal portraits using their patterns – very interesting indeed. Please click the image to read the whole blog post.

I am so pleased to announce that Sheridan & Co are presenting my next solo show – Dead Man’s Patterns Memento Mori featuring pattern skulls as objects and artworks all remembering death, made with tailoring patterns of bespoke Savile Row customers who are now deceased.  The show will take place between the 20th of Feb to 3rd March 2012 featuring 7 three-dimensional skulls from a limited edition of 50 accompanied by 7 two-dimensional artworks from an edition of 50 all exploring the remembrances of death. The exhibition will also feature an analogue light projection by BAFTA winning artist Ed Burton.

Watch this space for more info.

I have posted my work-in-progress and finished 3-d skull object. To be reminded visit here. During the process of making a few samples and the finished object – I began to amass a considerable amount of remnant pattern cut-outs. I saved these for a rainy day – only to realise that I was left with a lot of curves – like curves of an armhole, neck, crotch of a trouser etc – which I could paste in a way that the negative space creates skull collages. Please see below some initial ideas.

I was going about the process in a very arbitrary way. I was looking at photographs while pasting the pieces – so there is a shape being formed and one can see a skull; however, I wanted to achieve a more accurate outline of my 3-d skull. In a conversation with my friend and artist Ed Burton came up with the idea of projecting the skull on a wall and working with shadows. This also promoted the 2-min film, directed by Ed, who also composed music for it. See here

We then concluded that the best method to achieve a shadow would be to work with an overhead project, which I happened to rescue 2 years ago. See below photos.

I will post once I have done some more collages in the negative using the overhead projector as my guide..

On a final note I am going to get sentimental by saying I am so lucky to have a friend like Ed. My lecturer at Westminster once told me that throughout a creative’s career it is imperative to have someone you trust; with who you can have open honest conversations about ideas, experiments, concepts etc and my comrade is most definitely the eccentric Ed Burton.

It was a splendid end to the week, yesterday! I had a productive morning in my studio and then visited the Serpentine to see the late Brazilian artist Lygia Pape, which I might say – absolutely outstanding and inspiring…influenced by Russian Constructivist art. My favourite was the book of architecture and the book of time, where they are not actually books but rather a series of objects…This is something I thought I could perhaps reference whilst creating a book on tailoring!

My outfit for the day

I then walked through Hyde Park on a beautiful evening…to reach the Centre of Possible Studies…

where I have exhibited 2 collage artworks from my Lady Gardens series at Imprint at the Centre of Possible Studies..

A big thank you to my friends Fiona Ransom, Alexis Bechu, Ian Govindhir, Denis Laner, Taryn Cianciaruson, Sina Shamsavary (who took the first photo of me) and Daniel Schweitzer (who photographed the second of me) for being present and supporting my work.

Photos by Carlos Martyn Burgos another artist at the festival. Also read a nice article on all artist’s (including her own) work written by Nicola Anthony

All in all a day of art with the Serpentine!

I am so pleased to be part of the artist group Fabelist run by Francesca Goodwin, who has worked really hard to secure an exhibition titled Imprint at the Centre of Possible Studies, Serpentine Gallery. The exhibition which includes performances opens on the 27th of January and will run for a week! It is really important for me to support this project because it is about bringing different hybrids together with the community as the focus.

How can we as artists impact society?

For the exhibit I have submitted 2 collage artworks from my Lady Garden series. Here’s one of them with written context below…

Lady Gardens.

Two words side by side that make an indelible impression on all who hear them. Children may see flowers pretty and peculiar. Men see mother, mouthwatering and mysterious. Women see themselves flattened, flattered or flaunted. The space around Narielwalla’s bold collages invites the individual imagination of the viewer to blossom. He breathes life into antique tailoring patterns rescued from the 1930′s onwards all too often left orphaned by deceased gentlemen whose shrunken shanks have no need for fabric. Freed from function tailoring patterns are drawings ahead of their time; anthropomorphic in origin and beautifully abstract in isolation. This is an artist who hasn’t touched this particular muse since birth yet like any man cannot resist but return to the grip of those lips that first spoke his name. Handling folds of stiff brown paper he yearns his becoming; cut, curved, c**t.