"..With an inaugural exhibition of work from Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy – an illustrator awarded the coveted D&Ad Best New Blood award last year – Gallery 7 is setting itself a high standard to sustain.
Pomeroy’s work is dark to the point of downright ghoulishness .
she adopts arbitrary snippits from low-rent weeklies and adapts them to her own rather grisly designs. Comic, irreverent and technically mesmerising, Pomeroy’s illustrations offer a delicate glimpse into her left-of-centre outlook on life."
"Clothing company Super Superficial is opening a new illustration gallery in
The gallery, which will open on 3 April, will be in the basement of the Super Superficial shop at
Super Superficial’s David Kay says, ‘When we opened the store we always had the idea of putting a gallery in the basement.’
Kay says the gallery design and show curating will be by Super Superficial, and the first show will be I Married a Toyboy Convict, by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy, who recently won the D&AD Best New Blood Award.
The show draws inspiration from real-life stories published in weekly women’s magazines.
Kay says the gallery will host shows from a mixture of up-and-coming and more established illustrators, with exhibitions from Hannah Melin and Matt Johnstone already planned."
Thirty six students exhibiting at the D&AD New Blood 2008 graduate recruitment exhibition were chosen as the ‘best in show’ in their respective disciplines.
They were selected by a panel of creative industry leaders as producers of the best work from the 120 exhibiting courses at the show.
Winners include Chris Wharton from
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