In less than 48hrs we’re flying to Berlin to present our very first international event ‘Character Totem’, part of the official Pictoplasma Character Walk! ‘Character Totem’ is an inspiring and colourful walk-through installation of hand-painted customised totem poles, lovingly created by an evolving collective of artists from across the globe; a new twist on the traditional exquisite corpse game. Check out the full line-up here.
As part of this project, we invited illustrators, artists or anyone feeling a little creative to enter Colour Me Totem, our first online creative project! The rules were simple – ‘Discover your inner character – doodle, ink, paint or digitally design your own Character Totem. Give him a name & send us the results’ And what a collection of entries we received! Quirky, colourful and full of character, the entries were incredibly diverse and sent in from artists as far afield as Guatemala, Australia and Germany.
We are now shortlisting a collection of our favourite entries to print, frame and exhibit on the walls of the Neurotitan Gallery, as part of our Character Totem exhibiton, launching next Wednesday 6 April. As a special treat, visitors to the show can also come down and create their own Colour Me Totem on-site at our Colour Me Totem workshop (just bring pens!).
If you can’t wait till then, here’s a teaser of the best Colour Me Totem entries so far…
