Jon Roscorla

So, tomorrow is the Private View of our Degree Show.  We've all been in the Gallery since 10am and I didn't get home 'til 9pm.  I'm very tired and very dirty.

I've been doing this blog for a few weeks now and am going to write about myself.  It's gonna be short as I am SO tired and have to finish off hanging my work/ setting up for tomorrow night.  Anyway, I'm gonna answer my own questions and put some of my work on here.  Hope you like it, check out my website HERE.

Choose a noun, adjective and/or verb that best describes your work.

Pop/ Teen Cultured & Disruptive.

Have you done any work outside of university?

Yeah, I've done quite a bit; over the past two years I've worked for Illustrated People where I designed t-shirts for Topshop and a menswear collection for their online store.  One design (of my cat) was even worn by Plan B in his music video Ill Manors.  Also, clothing company Aqua by Aqua.  I did some digital prints for them.  Over the Christmas period I was part of the print, pattern & embroidery department for Alexander McQueen.  There I drew a lot of flowers, skulls and design embellishments for clothing.  I was lucky enough to have worked on a dress for Kate Middleton.  As well as that, I've built a sculpture for Queen of Hoxton, worked a bit on the BBC W1 Programme through University and helped out and even held exhibitions at a few galleries around London.  It's been very busy for me, but I kinda thrive off it.

What is your preferred working enviroment? (studio, home, music, outside etc???)
I like working in a studio.  You can put work on a wall, have facilities everywhere, people to talk to and bounce ideas off.  When I get home I just sit in front the t.v., play video games, eat and smoke.  Plus my bedroom is tiny so I find really hard to work in there, even though that's just as cluttered as my studio space at Uni.


Where in London is your favourite gallery and why? Where was the last exhibition you went to and what did you think of it?
Everyone loves the Saatchi Gallery.  It's always full of amazing artwork from all around the world and I like that the whole Gallery has a theme about it.  I also love Richard Wilson's 20:50.  The last exhibition I visited was the Fine Art Degree show at P3 and the Fashion Show.  I love going round the Graduate shows as everything is so fresh and new.  Also, it's nice to go and support your friends.

What's does your next project entail?
I'm going to America for a month in July so hopefully I'll get inspired there.  I just want to get a job and relax for a bit.  Sleep for a few years.  I really want to carry on working in print making, especially fashion print.

  
Who/ what inspires you?
References to niche pop culture, YBA, Larry Clarke, Harmony Korine, youths, James Long, different types of printmaking, fashion print, London, video games, EVERYTHING.

Ill Manors

I recently had a t-shirt design of mine feature in Plan B's latest music video Ill Manors.  I designed whilst working at Illustrated People.  Below is a screenshot and the actual video.  I'll be showing my work alongside the rest of Westminster Illustration.  You can check out any other work of mine HERE.

Angelina Ioannides-Beer

Best friend Angelina Ioannides-Beer (or Ange for short) will at showing at IDENTITY 2012 too.  She and I worked for Illustrated People over the summer last year just off Brick Lane and I think it's from there where Angelina clicked and realised what she wanted to do.


From printing large psychedelic patterns and repeated shapes Angelina has this year built herself as a brand.  She takes elements and significant signs of her work and hand prints them onto jersey wear, shoots, models, designs and prints look books all by herself and is even setting up a installation/pop-up store at P3.  When she's not working she likes the occasional drink... or five.


Angelina says: These are two fabric designs i have done.

The first fabric design is done for my last project which was called Hidden Wisdom.The second fabric design is for my most recent project which i called Geometric - God. I wanted this fabric design to represent and look like part of the universe as this project was based on the connection between geometric shapes and the universe.
My main interest is fabric designs and printed garments.

Hidden Wisdom 

Geometric God




Here's a snap of Angelina's desk I took this morning of some of the books she's been looking at.

Feature on Illustrated People

Thanks to my friends at Illustrated People for featuring us on their blog!!

Illustrated People

A couple of students have been working with East london street brand Illustrated People.  They have a concessions stand in Topshop all across the UK and also an online store.

Fresh in this week for Topshop is a design by Josie Shenoy called TRIBES. (Buy HERE)

Illustrated People are a studio with really cool designers.  As a company, they're full of friendly people and hand screen print their garments.  Follow them HERE on twitter and check out their website/ online store HERE.

Check out more from Josie Shenoy HERE and follow her blog HERE.