6×4 Secret Postcard Exhibition

The 6×4 Secret Postcard Exhibition kicked off this weekend and in the end nearly 800 postcards were sent from artists around the world including Paul Smith, Wayne Hemingway, Martin Parr and Richard Wilson. The launch night attracted quite a lot of people and over 80 postcards were sold including a card made by local award winning jeweler Barbara Tipple. The lucky person who bought the card for £20 also received over £200 worth of diamonds.

I popped by the exhibition this afternoon to see the work and take some pics and was very impressed with the selection and quality of the work. Jan Williams informed me that all the cards left after 5pm today will be for sale online.

If anyone has any stories to tell of their purchases or if you are one of the artists with a story to tell about your entries then please add these to the Flickr 6×4 Group. Jan would love to hear how you made your piece and if you have bought a postcard then you could take a photo of it on your wall and upload it to the flickr group. When you find your postcard in the group please add comments. If anyone took photographs at the opening night then Jan would love to see these added to the group. I was lucky enough to purchase a piece of work by Dan Thompson of Artist and Makers. It now sits very proudly at home.

See more photographs of the exhibition at my Flickr stream.

Southsea Postcards

I’ve no idea if these are genuine postcards or a bit of fun, but you have to admit they’re classics.

Edit: Strong Island reader Zygomatic posted the link where you can buy these postcards and many more. Genius.

PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage