Secret Postcards

As its the RCA Secret Postcard sale tomorrow, I wonder how many people are hoping to find themselves a bargain buy, maybe a Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry or Anish Kapoor for only forty-five pounds. Well whether I brave the crowds tomorrow morning and head down to Kensington Gore is yet to be decided but here are my favourites.

See more here: http://dams.rca.ac.uk/res/sites/RCA_Secret/

Promotion

So as I posted already about bill stickers, here is some more examples of the very great sticker promotion! It spread all around Paris, from Saint Germain, Pigalle right through to the Palais de Tokyo, while looking up at the Eiffel Tower. What has happened now is it seems to be spreading across the water right into London. A very big thank you to a certain individual who posted on a post box - perfect! Keep looking around London, they are going to start appearing more and more.

Bill Stickers

So I have now returned from my trip to Paris, Paris Photo, Off Print and Nofound which really was an excellent trip, filled with much laughter, great work, wine and fantastic company. I will post later about what went on in Paris, which exhibitions I saw, the overall debrief of the trip. but first a lovely little image that shows off the flyers that my designers made for the pre-sale of my publication, coming in early 2012.

I collected the package from my designers Kummer & Herrman on Friday afternoon at Le Bal, a lovely little exhibition space with an incredible cafe serving some amazing food. I was very excited to see what they were like and they are truly fantastic! You can peal off the middle section of the flyer, so it was only right to promote the book in the correct fashion, spreading the word around Paris with the stickers! A special thank you to everyone who participated, very funny indeed! The image above is a little taster of what, where and how they look.

Paris, Off Print, Pre-order Publication Leaflet

As it is getting very close to Paris Photo now and I am arriving in Paris on Thursday I felt you should see what I have been planning! My wonderful designers Kummer & Herrman have been very busy producing my pre-order publication leaflets. I will be in Paris Photo on Friday day and Off Print pretty much the rest of the time, with a little trip to the Nofound Photo Fair.

Please get in touch if you would like a pre-order card as they really are beautiful and really start to show you what the concept of the book is going to be. I will also have the Book Dummy which you might even get a glimpse of too. See you in Paris!

NPG

As the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize opens tomorrow night, I thought it only right to draw your attention to my good friends work, Tina Hillier, whose portrait of me has been selected for the exhibition, very exciting! This portrait was taken in early January 2011 in Turku, Finland. To see more of Tina's work see here: http://www.tinahillier.com/

Hijacked Artists Announced

The final selection of artists / photographers for Hijacked v.3 AUS / UK have now been announced and I am in very, very good company. UK Artists include Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Seba Kurtis, Trish Morrissey, Simon Roberts and WassinkLundgren to name but a few.

See here for the other artists and for more information: http://bigcitypress.com.au/blog/

The British Journal of Photography

"The Photograph as Contemporary Art" series is now published in the new October issue of the BJP in the portfolio section. The publication is ten full colour pages and the opening text is by Simon Bainbridge. The above pictures are a few of the pages in the article.

Simon Bainbridge writes, "If Melinda Gibson’s photomontages look familiar, don’t be surprised. A flash of Ed Burtynsky here, a slice of Juergen Teller there, they are all made up of elements of some of the major works of the 1990s and 2000s, culled from the pages of The Photograph As Contemporary Art. Written and edited by Charlotte Cotton (former curator at the V&A and LACMA, and now creative director of the UK’s National Media Museum), it is one of the key texts for students starting out in photographic education. Which is precisely why the 26-year-old, who graduated from London College of Communication in 2006 and is now a visiting lecturer herself, chose to use it."

See more of the article online and inprint: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/2103858/photograph-contemporary-art

Harpers Bazaar

Very nice article in Australian Harpers Bazaar about my inspiration for HUGO by Hugo Boss's SS12 collection "Poetic Tailoring" in the October issue 2011 - 3 Artistic Licence. They talk about Eyan Allen's thoughts after the show quoting him,

"It's definitely a very artistic-inspired collection....There's such a strong link between art and fashion and when you fuse them together you end up with something quite interesting,' explains Allen who drew his inspiration from British artist and photographer Melinda Gibson. She does beautiful abstract collages and when I saw her exhibition, I was very excited by it and a lot of the prints on the womenswear are inspired by her own collection."

Helsinki, KUVU, Turku

I am back from my trip to Finland, and it was as beautiful as I remembered but a lot warmer than when I was there back in January! I flew into Helsinki and stayed for a couple of days, then travelled onto Turku to see the "Alice in Wonderland Exhibition."

Helsinki was as wonderful as ever and I couldn't believe the difference the warmer weather makes to a city, many more people and a cafe culture I hadn't seen before. I met up with some friends from the Finnish Museum of Photography and went for an excellent, traditional Finnish meal at the fantastic Sea Horse, some say this is the authentic Aki Kaurismaki Helsinki experience, the interior is stunning and an atmosphere to match, many thanks to Anna-Kaisa and Tiina! As I wondered around the city, there was an abundance of antique shops with truly beautiful things, and lovely little bars, the image above demonstrates the lovely little/ and rather large finds you can seek out.

Then onto KUVU, (The Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts) to lecture. What a great environment to study and with a small department of only 200 students across all the Fine Arts, the students are very lucky! Then it was onto Turku.

I arrived in Turku to see the exhibition and take some more installation shots when there was now more than 6 hours of daylight! The show looks great and it was lovely visit the places I had been before and not forgetting to act as a tour guide for my parents. The trip was very enjoyable and what a great end, sitting drinking wine in one of my favourite restaurants Tintå , a stunning little Finnish wine bar overlooking the Turku River, great food, great wine and even better company - thank you!

http://www.seahorse.fi/ and http://www.tinta.fi/

BJP iPad App

"The Photograph as Contemporary Art" is now available on the BJP iPad App which was released on the 7th September - Issue one, Autumn 2011. My series is in the Portfolio section, to see a taster of the article read below:

Simon Bainbridge writes, "If Melinda Gibson’s photomontages look familiar, don’t be surprised. A flash of Ed Burtynsky here, a slice of Juergen Teller there, they are all made up of elements of some of the major works of the 1990s and 2000s, culled from the pages of The Photograph As Contemporary Art. Written and edited by Charlotte Cotton (former curator at the V&A and LACMA, and now creative director of the UK’s National Media Museum), it is one of the key texts for students starting out in photographic education. Which is precisely why the 26-year-old, who graduated from London College of Communication in 2006 and is now a visiting lecturer herself, chose to use it...."

Read more here: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/2103858/photograph-contemporary-art

Lenscratch

New article on Lenscratch about my series "The Photograph as Contemporary Art." Aline Smithson writes,

"It's hard to ignore a statement like: "I am interested in the changing perspectives of the photographic medium, how images are viewed and understood through the technological advances in photography and the help and hindrances this begins forth into our contemporary culture." It's pretty clear from her statement that Melinda Gibson is looking at photography in a new way. Her images are wonderfully complex and layered, and allow us to question reality."

See more here: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/08/melinda-gibson.html

Behind the Scenes

Behind the scenes in Berlin, as HUGO by Hugo Boss launch their Spring/Summer Collection 2012 'Poetic Tailoring.' Your get to see the beautiful garments for both Men and Women that were inspired by my photomontages from the series "The Photograph as Contemporary Art." This body of work is being published as a Limited Edition Book with a Special Edition of just 33 handmade by me! Don't miss out on the opportunity to purchase one of the books, contact me for details.