welcome.
to the official website of loz atkinson.
award winning, internationally exhibited and widely collected artist living and working in Leicester. creating many wonderous things, from small prints to huge digital works.
please take some time to explore and enjoy all there is to see and read.
---news--
december 2011
if you're sitting comfortably, then i'll begin.
firstly the EGGciting news (sorry there will be a lot of these)
following the amazing successes of the elephant parade in 2010 and jungle city this summer, Elephant Family has joined forces with Action for Children to bring you The Big Egg Hunt.
Over two hundred 2 1/2 ft eggs will appear throughout London, each uniquely designed
and embellished by leading artists and designers including Faberge,
Vivienne Westwood, Chapman Brothers, Marc Quinn, Zandra Rhodes, Polly
Morgan, Diane von Furstenburg, Sophie Dahl just to name a few!
i am so EGGstatic :) to be invited back to be involved in such an amazing event! with the egg ready and waiting in my leicester studio for its transformation.
for
40 days and 40 nights London will be transfixed by the most astounding
and exhilarating egg hunt it has ever seen. in the hope of raising over
£2 million the event which launches on Shrove Tuesday, 21st February
2012, will see the streets become a thrilling adventure, a myriad of
wonder, a world of inspiration.
each corner will hold a secret treasure for you to discover and experience, hatching wonders and excitement as you journey through our great city. Get yourselves ready to scramble the streets for a cracking good time!
for more information on the hunt please visit www.thebigegghunt.co.ukkeep in practically real-time awareness with updates as they happen and for course lots of egg puns on twitter or facebook
throughout 2011 i've been concentrating more on creating new works and exhibition concepts rather than actually exhibiting (although there has been a few)
new paintings, digitally constructed images, photographic and paper based works have all been researched and developed, taking me on many tangents of thought using perceptions of sex, death, religion and nature. all oldies but goldies :)
so in the months to come i can hopefully reveal more about up and coming exhibitions of new exciting work!
i am also hoping to soon re-open my online shop. so i can create some more smiley faces like this one all the way in texas, USA. of course if you have seen something you like on this site and you can't wait until the shop is back up and running, please don't hesitate to get in touch
well i have finally been able to update my website after "technical difficulties" at this end.
so as it has been a while and before i forget lets get the boring bits out the way first!
if you would like more up to date happenings please visit/join/follow my blog, facebook or twitter.
now for the fun of lots of jungle city updates - my hornbill "one for the rock, one for the crow, one to die and one to grow" had the most generous final bid of £2,050 during the online auction which ended on 2nd oct. i will be posting more info on the jungle city grand total when i get wind of it :)
super excitingly my hornbill features on the front cover of the art book that accompanies the project - why not purchase one along with some mini junglers here
to see its painting in progress please visit my blog there is even a making of video that can be found here enjoy :)
for lots more info on the whole project and all the good it's doing please visit www.jungle-city.org
so news... mmm whats been going on well....
well more new work is in the pipeline after a short but sweet photoshoot with the fabulous Talulah Blue
for a digitally constructed image about the story of Lilith, Adams
first wife! was so excited after the shoot i started
putting it all together and i must say its looking good!
other newness includes work using semen (not the navy kind) and after receiving my CSI-esque black light torch and then a kind donation of a black light lamp from the lovely miss Husiw the invisible semen writings project is coming along nicely (pun fully intended hehe)
a few pieces of my print work was featured at the EM property show
courtesy of pedestrian gallery. who are now based at the LCB Depot in
Leicester and i hope to work with again in future.
the trans siberian art centre went ahead with great sucess to read more please click here or visit their website it was such a fantastically unusual project and now i can say im an internationally exhibited artist ah ha ha!
a new series of work in the pipe is a set of self portraits to find out a little more click here
i also recently spied my first ever review and it wasnt too bad for the first time :D
well my lovelies i shall leave it at that for now but if you cant live without more more more quicker faster nower! the please join me at these outlets for more profound nonsense and wonderings twitter / blog / facebook