Cathy's Art Diary

Nice exhibition at Somerset House organised by the Print Club London   who asked artists to respond to their favourite film in the Film4 Summer Screen programme and produce a poster for it. These were fun bright images but I must admit I didn’t know a lot of the films so found posters for those a bit difficult to interpret. My favourite image was a quote from Jaws “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” by RYCA with the words arranged like a shark’s mouth. There was a clever one for In Bruges by Rozalina Burkova in just three colours and I liked Steve Wilson’s for All the President’s Men with the stripes of the stars and stripes morphing into film feeding onto a reel. Closed on 23 August 2017  

Interesting xhibition looking at the Starnd Gallery looking at film posters for pictures due out between now and Christmas. The blurb said the show “explores how individual designs ‘cut through’ and attract different responses from different viewers”. I’ll admit I didn’t get that from it as any commentary on the poster was about the film not about the art work! A bit about why each image was chosen to represent the film might have been interesting. However it was still a good opportunity to see what’s coming out! I can’t wait for Mr Turner and Colin First seems to have been busy even if he is no longer the voice of Paddington, which incidentally had the most adorable poster!