Grotto

So after Jermyn gave us the task of researching different ways of screen printing onto various different materials, he introduced us to a new project he and his team were working on which was this shop called 'Grotto' they were going to open for a month in the Northern Quarter in Manchester until December 24th. They managed to get the shop for free from someone they knew so didn't have to pay any rent for the shop, (apart from the use of electricity etc). The aim was to sell artists' work by not ripping them off like most shops would do as they require a certain amount of money to keep their profits up and keep their shop running. Grotto would provide artists with the money they deserve for what they've made.-80% of the final price. So in fact the guys running the shop would get £0 unless they sold something themselves. They based the shop around the idea of Christmas being a little kooky and offbeat with not a typical view of Christmas by artists creating wrapping paper or Christmas cards. And for the final price of this they would give the artist 20%. Jermyn said that we could contribute as little or as much as we wanted to the shop, which was a great way to showcase our work to the public. It was great to visit it and see it running in action, it was like a working dream for them. I really like the idea of not ripping the artists like most shops do, so was fully up for supporting the idea. I produced my own design of Christmas cards for the shop- 2 in fact! I had designed a Christmas card of my mum dressed as Santa Claus and my dog acting like Rudolph 2 years ago while I was doing my art foundation for a project I was doing at the time based on dreams. The other card was based on a Christmas robot that cooked your Christmas dinner in his oven belly, and served it to you. I've added these designs below.