Created Local – Sadie Tierney & Neal Layton

I had the pleasure of spending a few hours last week with husband and wife Sadie Tierney and Neal Layton. They are both established artists and have lived in Southsea for the past 8 years.

Sadie is an artist and film maker who trained as a printmaker at the Royal College and was encouraged during her studies to investigate as many different disciplines as possible. She was head of printmaking at Eton College taught Illustration at Glasgow School of Art and Fine Art at Brighton and Swindon. Sadie has had her work shown extensively locally, nationally and internationally in galleries including Flowers East, Rabley Drawing Centre, Aspex and Transition.

Neal is an award winning children’s book illustrator and author. He has illustrated and written 13 books and has worked on over 40 titles. His books have been translated into 18 different languages. Some of his titles he  illustrated include the Emily Brown series, The Mammoth Academy books and Poo, A Natural History of the Unmentionable.

He studied graphic design at Newcastle University and then went onto do an MA in Illustration at St Martin’s, London.

“We moved to Portsmouth because of the skatepark, Wedgewood Rooms and nudist beach. It’s become a lot cooler than it used to be and it’s so nice to live by the sea. The locals are very supportive and it’s a very welcoming city also like a mini Hollywood with the hill and everything within 5 miles – beach, docks, forts, forests, Hilsea Lines, bike rides”.

Sadie Tierney – http://www.sadietierney.co.uk/

Neal Layton – http://www.neallayton.co.uk/

Sadie and Neal also run Saft and Boneless a film production company specialising in downhill skateboard racing. ROAD BUZZ is a feature length film documenting the downhill skate scene featuring interviews and riding from all over Europe.

Road Buzz

Neal from Saft and Boneless got in contact about their new film Road Buzz which they just completed. Road Buzz is a feature length documentary about Downhill Skateboarding and features music from three Portsmouth bands, Big Squirrel, The Reactor Core is Beautiful, And You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All Turn Into Demons.

There is a screening coming up in Woking, The Longboard Lounge will present ROAD BUZZ at 3pm and 6pm on Sunday 11th July at Woking YMCA. Running time 80 minutes. Entry is £2, which also enters you into the Longboard Lounge Random Raffle with all proceeds going to the YMCA.

They hope to organise another one in Portsmouth soon with some of the bands playing.

For more details about the film check www.roadbuzz.saftandboneless.co.uk.

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