23 April – 4 May 2015
Open daily 10.00 – 18.00, late night Wednesdays and Thursdays until 22.00 Embankment Galleries, South Wing Day tickets £10.00, concessions £8.00 Festival Pass £17.50
Open daily 10.00 – 18.00, late night Wednesdays and Thursdays until 22.00 Embankment Galleries, South Wing Day tickets £10.00, concessions £8.00 Festival Pass £17.50
Pick Me Up returns to Somerset House for its sixth year, featuring a
fresh line-up of artists and designers bringing the best of new
illustration, graphic design and related disciplines to inspire and
delight. Vibrant, engaging and packed full of exciting things to see, do
and buy, Pick Me Up 2015 will once again feature a whole host
of different working processes and techniques ranging from traditional
screen-printing to animation, risograph printing to paper craft.
Both emerging and established talent will set up interactive workspaces
throughout Somerset House’s Embankment Galleries for the 12 days of the
festival. Each representing a different form of graphic art, the
studios will offer visitors plenty of opportunities to engage with the
artists and designers directly, see work being made onsite, and even
create their own work. The original pieces produced throughout the
festival, plus limited edition prints and accessories, will be available
for purchase with prices ranging between £5 and £200.
Located at the heart of the festival in 2015 will be Pick Me Up Platform,
a vibrant programme of debates, presentations and demonstrations.
Discussions will explore not only current work and trends but also
address issues facing graphic art communities in years to come. A
particular highlight for 2015 will be the UK premiere of
thought-provoking documentary Made You Look. The
much-anticipated film provides a rare and candid insight into some of
the UK’s top creative talent at work and at play in a hyper-digital age.
It reveals how the climate for graphic arts has changed and developed
over the last 15 years, particularly since 2010, the year which saw Pick Me Up’s
first edition. As well as hosting the premiere, outtakes from the
documentary will also be shown daily in Pick Me Up Platform.
As well as hosting the premiere, shorts from the documentary called Made You Look Daily Editions will also be shown daily in Pick Me Up Platform.