THE ALPHABET OF ART
S for Surrealism
In 2019 the Tate gallery’s merchandise team got in touch to see if I wanted to collaborate on a series of initial mugs for their shops.
They were interested to see if I could make the designs for each letter relate to a different artist or movement that the character began with. P for Picasso and C for Cubism and so on.
It ended up being one of the most complex commissions I’ve ever worked on, taking months of research, sketching and revising until we finally had a final 26 letters (plus an ampersand for Gilbert & George).
The overall effect was to create a kind of visual puzzle that you could spend hours deciphering to find all the references. The final collection included a poster of the full alphabet, as well as the mugs, to display.
BLAVATNIK MURAL
Tate Modern Launch
To help promote the launch of the collection I was asked to create a mural on the Blavatnik extension of the Tate Modern.
‘SHOP’ along the window display of the gift shop using their equivalent letters from the Alphabet of Art series blown up to a massive scale.
