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Handmade from manmade. Blue Peter maintains its long-standing practice of avoiding using commercial names on air. This long-standing tradition was started during the 1960s and 1970s by the show's editor, Biddy Baxter, along with producers Edward Barnes and Rosemary Gill, and most of them still feature on the programme. Most famously, this policy led to the invention of the phrase "sticky-backed plastic" back in the 1970s for the products marketed under the trade names Fablon and Coverlon. Sellotape was often referred to by the term "sticky tape", barring one incident in which John Noakes used the trade name and remarked as an aside "I'll get shot for that".
The process As mixed media collage, the process utilises built up or inlaid layers and combinations of household & industrial vinyl, paint and other everyday materials and finally sealed with acrylic varnish. Most works are on wooden tray boxes, some framed behind glass. All of the application is cut and laid by hand.
History In 2000 I started to exhibit at the Apart Gallery that was uniting emerging artists and first time buyers - creating a niche of street/pop driven fine art. Still exploring a variety of graphic techniques, my output covered stencil work, cartoon, instruction/signage language, woodcut and photographic abbreviation. In 2002, an encounter and collaboration with Paul Weller on the 'Illumination' release - where I was redrawing simplified photographs in flat colour, or 'mapping' - opened up my own drawing style - constructing with tonal shapes encased in line that could be filled with a simple colour palette
Background Born in 1968 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, Sean studied for a multidisciplinary degree at Bradford Art College and spent 10 years in advertising, design and marketing agencies as a graphic designer and art director. After 20 years in London, he now lives and works in Bath.
Exhibitions Apart Summer Show, London, June 2011
Collectors & Commissions Ted
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