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Art for All

Visual Arts Hub

This year at the festival we want to give some art away for free! So we commissioned 6 artists to create a piece based on this years theme.

We're going to make a limited edition print of each of these pieces - which you will be able to collect in The Hub (the venue at the festival for all things Art & Literature - just by the Tiny tea Tent).

Hold on, Free Art, there must be a catch?

Well, there is. But we think it's a bonus, not a catch!

There's so much great stuff to visit around site to do with the Visual Arts programme this year (as you can see from these listings pages) and here's your incentive to get round them all!

In each Visual Arts venue onsite you'll find one of 6 different rubber stamps, based on the rising sun prints we have commissioned. Visit all the venues and print all 6 of these onto the special page we're making available in the Daily Diary and then bring it to The Hub to claim your free limited edition print. We will be giving them away 'til we run out. So don't delay and get collecting when you get to Greenbelt.

Here's a bit about each artist and a thumbnail of their print:

Brent Clarke is an illustrator and designer who lives in the beautiful East End of London. He is Third Way Magazine's illustrator and co-designed their new look. He is also passionate about his work with The Spitalfields Crypt Trust a charity that works in the field of addiction and homelessness.

Brent

Cara Heafey is a nurse living and working in the
beautiful city of Oxford, spending much of my precious free time printing, sewing and knitting. I'm also a member of the mayBe community.

Cara

Dean Rankine is an Australian community worker and comic artist. His work has featured in publications by the Salvation Army, Good Shepherd, Fusion, the Victorian Foundation for the Victims of Torture and Trauma and others. He was once branded a 'heretic' by some religious fundamentalists but he's trying not to take it personally. You can see more of his comics here.

Dean

Sally Thompson is a product of South Africa, the Seychelles, Canada and now the UK, and she feels comics are an extremely relevent contemporary medium whose potential to show us new ways of expressing and looking at the diverse world around us is just beginning to be realized. She also thinks they're just plain beautiful and fun.

Sally

Si Smith is a Leeds-based illustrator and maker-of-stuff. (He's also behind the GB self-portrait project this year.)

Si

Siku is an illustrator, conceptualist and art director with over a decade's experience in the frontline of the British comics industry. He is best known for his work on Judge Dredd and the successful sci-fi/fantasy weekly comic, 2000AD.

Siku

Art for All

Pictured: one of Siku's prints.