Tenderproduct Window: Featuring Mengsel and Tenderflix 2010 DVD

Tenderproduct is pleased to feature the arrival of some brilliant new prints, teatowels and DVD’s in the shop. This month’s window exhibition proudly features the work of London based, Southafrican born designer, Luzelle van der Westhuizen. Inspired by African and Scandinavian design, Luzelle runs her own homeware accessories label, Mengsel, which includes pillowcases, tea towels, screen prints and more. Mengsel is the Dutch/Afrikaans word for mixture. Luzelle uses traditional silkscreen printing methods to create bold and colourful artwork. More info at www.mengsel.com. Luzelle designed for Tenderproduct a fantastic super 8 limited edition print that is also the cover of our 2010 Tenderflix DVD compilation. These are available at the shop as are a vibrant series of other handmade prints by Luzelle. The prints retail for £45 each, and the Tenderflix DVD is £15.

La Mouche

SERGE JUPIN’S – R O B O T F A C T O R Y

JUNE 22 – JULY 13

Tenderproduct shop is very pleased to present Robot Factory, a new window exhibition/product display designed by Serge Jupin. Robot Factory’s kinetic sculptures literally give objects a whole new lease on life. Fashioned from found objects and recycled vintage materials, this wonderful ‘unique-piece’ collection of figures quietly clicks and whirs from a distance. It is only on a closer inspection that each robot’s humble origins (discarded objects such as little electronic items, rivets, bolts, and other everyday refuse) are revealed lending wit and poetry to each quirky mechanical assembly. The result: a perfect retro-futuristic design.

For Tenderproduct, the artist has created two unique kinetic mini-robot models: Mr. Mouche and Mr. Watson (available in our online shop). Both are solar-powered kinetic sculptures. Serge manages to ‘input’ personality into each entity; when watching one spring into action from the rays of the sun, it is amazing how fast a bond of attachment can be made. These little characters will be available at Tenderproduct shop throughout the exhibition, and will remain part of the Tenderproduct collection afterwards. Also on display are medium and large-scale automatons hand-crafted by the artist.

A r e  y o u   r e a d y   f o r  t h e  r o b o t i c  a g e ?

Mr. Wattson

Botanical Surprise

New Sign and Window Display

Tenderproduct’s facade has gotten a brand new look. As you can see on the top left, we just had our first sign installed. Also, Aimee Furnival has created a spectacular window installation out of her Postcardens.

Paula Salischiker's Lencticular Art

A lie. A tale. A truth.

The Tenderproduct shop window showcases and introduces two new artists to the product shop family: photographer Paula Salischiker and jewellery designer Zoe Duthie. This dynamic duo employs the use of found photographs in their work: Paula is intrigued by the way in which the superposition of two instances can somehow fill the gap between subsequent moments and she has been working with lenticular technology to interrogate this phenomenon; Zoe creates photo-etched jewellery, which attempts to convey a story or hold a memory.

For the Window exhibition at Tenderproduct, Zoe Duthie has created a limited edition collection of five silver and gold brooches inspired by Paula’s original found photos of an unknown German family. By adopting the technique of photo-etching into her designs, Zoe transfers the quiet beauty of these images onto silver and gold embellishing the imagery with her own contemporary style and designs. She has selected her favourite images from the German family series and has incorporated them into a selection of stunning jewellery. Each brooch explores family connections and ties, whilst also referencing the fragmented original unknown stories behind these photos.

Paula has created a limited edition lenticular photograph series from rediscovered images; the artist has been collecting multiple anonymous family album images for severalyears now. The characters in these series often photographed one other identically positioned within the same setting, producing a bizarre series of  double-take photographs. Salischiker’s lenticulars destroy the photographic essence of fixed imagery, giving birth to a hybrid that reconstructs a dead moment. These once real images become part of a new fictional narrative. Each new image is static yet simultaneously in flux, acting not only as proof of the past, but as an alternative interpretation of it.

Mixing Art and Science

Hugh Turvey is recognised internationally for his x-ray works and as one of the worlds few contemporary x-ray artists. He continues to experiment with the new emerging x-ray technologies to produce his imagery for projects and commission. The work is observationally perceived and is a multi-stage process leading to intense detail capture with some overt unique colouring techniques applied by hand.
Hugh Turvey’s experimental x-ray art is now available at Tenderproduct and includes greeting cards and paper-rock-scissors flipbooks. Yay!

Crispin Jones at Tenderproduct

These funky creatures have rapidly become part of Mr. Jones’ already well-established and original Tengu product line. The Allstars, according to Mr. Jones, ‘wear their love of music with loud and massive hairstyles’, they also come with a selection of complimentary accessory stickers, to compliment their ‘look’. They live by your computer and react to auditory signal (music, your voice, the dog barking, a telephone – whatever sound they can hear around them). The louder the sound, the more frantically their faces animate. Tengu All Stars connect to the USB port of your computer for energy, they are otherwise very self-sufficient not requiring any additional software on the host machine. They are both Mac and PC compatible. Rotten, Stardust and Woodstock will swing into action inside the Tenderproduct Windowspace and passers by will be invited to watch their collective performance, singing, sleeping, and making amusing Tengu facial expressions.

Festively curated window

In typical tender-holiday spirit, tenderproduct’s newly curated window celebrates all that is merry. ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas is the brainchild of the creatives behind Bobby Dazzler, Ink Illustration and the always amazing Jill Green.