Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy

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2012-02-14T01:25:00.003-08:00

Bits from an upcoming project

New Updated website

2012-02-02T09:14:00.001-08:00

Samples

2012-01-21T06:52:00.001-08:00

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Cyclops

2012-01-19T13:44:00.001-08:00

Quick icon illustration for a piece about mythical creatures.

Creature

2012-01-15T09:39:00.001-08:00

Busker

2012-01-10T03:35:00.000-08:00

I found this on my old computer of a busker in Brighton from a few years ago. Not that he actually played any music, just sat there with a mask on and a DIY doll. It wasn't Halloween.

Me, pretending to draw.

2011-12-20T11:22:00.000-08:00

An online magazine asked for a photo of me in my studio. This was it.

Pettybone 2

2011-12-20T05:25:00.001-08:00

For an upcoming Pettybone gig.

Wonderland Magazine

2011-11-22T05:51:00.000-08:00

Wonderland Magazine have a feature/interview on me up on their website this week.

Big thanks to Jack Mills.

Headhunter, Converse

2011-10-18T04:43:00.000-07:00

I was recently asked to produce an illustration almost as tall as me for Converse.
The idea was to create a piece in one of the colours of their new range of shoe. Mine was a warm grey and various hues of this. The image didn't need to be of or about Converse, it was totally open which was great. I chose to base mine on the Konyak Headhunters of North East India.

"Headhunting is the practice of taking a person's head after killing them. It was common up to the 20th century and may still be practised in isolated Naga tribes of Burma. Many of the Naga warriors still bear the marks (tattoos and others) of a successful headhunt."

I was lucky enough to have access to some great photos of the tribesman by my friend Christo Geoghegan for this.

2Pacalypse Now

2011-08-11T04:05:00.000-07:00

Personal commission.

Peapods to Zebras

2011-08-03T12:20:00.000-07:00

I edited my Pettybone illustration to be featured in 'Peapods to Zebras', an upcoming book showcasing 40 illustrators work. Looking forward to seeing it. Thanks to Orlando Lloyd for asking me to be involved.

Petty Bone poster

2011-06-18T10:43:00.000-07:00

Gig poster for an upcoming hardcore gig. Headliners Pettybone with Diet Pills, Legal Highs and State Icons.

Hannah

2011-05-30T13:56:00.000-07:00

Portrait of Tattooist Hannah K @ Nine, Brighton

The Mask

2011-05-30T13:44:00.000-07:00

Vultures

2011-05-30T12:04:00.000-07:00

An on going project on Vultures and their feed.

Vultures seldom attack healthy animals, but may kill the wounded or sick. When a carcass has too thick a hide for its beak to open, it waits for a larger scavenger to eat first. Vast numbers have been seen upon battlefields. They gorge themselves when prey is abundant, until their crop bulges, and sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food.

4 Days Off

2011-04-26T06:50:00.000-07:00

I've got a very limited edition Royal wedding Tshirt at Super superficial for the next couple of weeks (FYI I'm not a massive Royalist, its tongue in cheek don't worry).

Emma riding a pig

2011-04-26T06:24:00.000-07:00

Personal illustration for my good friend/associate/life partner Emma Clark.

Verbal diarrhoea

2011-04-04T03:45:00.000-07:00

Follow me on my twitter if you like.

Railway

2011-02-11T12:23:00.000-08:00

I'm trying to get into painting again, and using colour a bit more. Here's my recent attempt.
For some reason blogspot warps the sharpness of the paint which is annoying.

Attitude Magazine - Loverat

2011-01-27T16:01:00.000-08:00

Recently Attitude magazine asked me to illustrate an article about 'Love rats'. Here's a sample.

Profiles

2011-01-27T15:49:00.000-08:00

I've been working in a wide squared sketchbook recently, to get back into drawing from my head and not from photos. I'm filling it with side profile characters. This is on-going and just for fun.

Grandad

2010-12-28T15:23:00.000-08:00

Recently I drew my grandad from an old photo my mum had of him.
It was taken soon after he was drafted for the Second World War.
As much as I like the drawing, it's a solemn image and one which I found difficult to finish.

Tote bags

2010-12-28T14:54:00.000-08:00

I'm thinking about printing a collection of tote bag designs.
This is a possibility...

Club Mofo

2010-12-28T14:42:00.000-08:00

Last week I exhibited some of my work at Club Motherfucker episode 2, Corsica Studios, London with Romy xx djing and Aérea Negrot on stage.
Thankyou to The Daughters of Chaos for inviting me to do it! (And Rose for being very butch and helping stick stuff to the wall)

Sony music App

2010-11-20T04:28:00.000-08:00

I've been working on a series of music themed illustrations for an up coming facebook app made by Sony.Here are a selected few, I doubt all of them will be used but keep an eye out.

Oh look Armand Van Helden is wearing one of my t-shirts in the Barbra Streisand video

2010-11-05T13:51:00.000-07:00

HERE is the video

Here is the T

Although I have to admit I was slightly disappointed when I found out it was this
and not a video of THE Barbra Streisand.

Halloween

2010-11-02T17:40:00.001-07:00

Not totally sure what my costume was supposed to be... gremlin goth beekeeper?

Kreuzberg '08

2010-11-02T16:59:00.000-07:00

I recently moved house and came across an old sketchbook/scrapbook that I took to Berlin with me a couple of years ago.

ARTNOT - Nottingham Visual Arts

2010-09-20T13:57:00.000-07:00

ArtNot recently asked me to produce portraits of Martin Creed

and Bob/Roberta Smith for an event at British Arts Fringe Festival Nottingham.

www.supersuperficial.com

2010-08-14T03:05:00.000-07:00

The new online SSF store is now launched and ready for action, buy my designs HERE.I'm working on a new design for the near future too so watch this space!

Super Superficial T's

2010-07-13T11:05:00.001-07:00

I know I've posted a couple of these before but I've got some nice clean photos of my range at Super Superficial now so I thought I'd put them up.

Their website is currently being re designed and will be fresh and new very soon. In the mean time you can find all these designs and more at Super Superficial Carnaby, 17 Fouberts Place, London, W1F 7QD and SSF Covent Garden, 22 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, London.

Anomaly Studio Piece

2010-07-13T10:57:00.000-07:00

The people at Anomaly (www.anomaly.com) asked me to come in and paint a large-scale wall piece on their brand new studio walls.

The starting sentence was 'Be Without Ego'. Here is what I came up with.

The Dubious Salvation of Jack Viljee

2010-07-07T16:01:00.000-07:00

I recently finished the cover for The Dubious Salvation of Jack Viljee by Jaques Strauss. The book is being published by Random House later this year.

"This is ostensibly the story of a boy with identity problems and a meditation of the rivalry between English and Afrikaans communities. With a winning combination of fabulous, enlivened writing, wit, insight, and truth, this is a very human story that never once preaches or gets bogged down in the weighty issues."

Read more about the book here.

LZP Typeface designed by JCB graphic design.

2010-06-29T06:20:00.000-07:00

I have my very own typeface designed by Jennifer Boulter, who also created my website.
Check out her blog HERE and my website at www.louise-z-pomeroy.co.uk

Impose Magazine, NYC article

2010-05-25T15:43:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Brooklyn based magazine Impose today for the really nice write up. Check out their website here and the article HERE

IM/UR

2010-05-14T15:04:00.000-07:00

Each month the people behind IM/UR - fashion/music/art blog, ask a different illustrator to design their background wallpaper and logo. I'm May! Find the artwork and full interview with me here.

(Second Idea- unused- inspired by 1960's artificial limb suit, Science Museum)

Re-painted

2010-03-30T11:55:00.000-07:00

I finally got round to scanning the newer painted version of my final image from 'Butchered in the bath', the short story from 'I Married a Toyboy Convict'.

Sloth

2010-03-23T17:09:00.001-07:00

The XX

2010-03-16T03:22:00.001-07:00

Portraits commissioned by band The XX.

http://www.myspace.com/thexx

Ghosts

2010-03-16T03:16:00.000-07:00

Last year some of my work was used on the set for The I.T Crowd (C4) and this year they've asked if I'd like to work with them again. Here's what I've come up with...

Guilty Parents

2010-03-16T03:12:00.000-07:00

LP Cover design for Nottingham band Guilty Parents

http://www.myspace.com/guiltyparents

New T-shirt at Super superficial

2010-03-04T10:34:00.001-08:00

Website Up!

2010-01-22T04:12:00.000-08:00

Guten Tag,

My website is finally up and running! Check it out at

www.louise-z-pomeroy.co.uk

Jaguar Shoes Wall painting

2010-01-05T16:34:00.000-08:00

For the NoBrow 2 launch party, I was asked to paint one of my images on the wall of the venue.
The final painting was about 6 foot high. My image and a whole lot of other really great stuff is up in Jaguar Shoes on Kingsland Road London until mid February.

NoBrow Issue 2: Jungle

2009-11-14T02:32:00.000-08:00

I'm in the brand new issue of NoBrow! It's available to buy at various outlets including The Tate, Magma book shop, Gosh and Dave's Comics in Brighton (for anyone who lives back in my home town) or alternatively you can buy it online at www.Nobrow.net

The theme was 'The jungle'. I decided to use the body modification that indigenous rain forest tribes have used on my own face.

Hong Kong found photo No.1

2009-11-03T10:32:00.001-08:00

Attitude Magazine

2009-08-07T06:34:00.000-07:00

Bad sexual experiences...

Adventures in the Beetroot Field.

2009-07-28T12:46:00.000-07:00

Recently I've been working on some promotional imagery for AITBF (London based booking/club nights, festivals) They asked me to create a family of 'twisted individuals'. Here's some of what I came up with.

Addition to Super Superficial Wall

2009-06-29T13:18:00.000-07:00

This is now part of a Victorian style mantel piece wall illustration I've recently finished on the walls of SSF Covent Garden. This image went inside a frame above an illustrated fireplace. Photos coming soon..

Check out Super Superficial, 22 Earlham Street, Covent Garden.

A Turkish Poodle in Harringay

2009-05-18T13:35:00.000-07:00

Nose Bleed

2009-05-01T09:13:00.000-07:00

Really old, but I quite like it.

Butcher

2009-04-21T06:00:00.001-07:00

Observational drawings from pigs heads for Butchered in the bath,
a story from I Married a Toyboy Convict.

Super Superficial Wall work

2009-04-21T04:38:00.000-07:00

I have an on going project at Super superficial, Covent Garden, to transform the
store into an illustrated Victorian (ish) family living room.

Watch this space for its development...

Wallpaper* Review

2009-04-08T14:23:00.000-07:00

The people at Wallpaper* Magazine/website were nice enough to come along down to my
exhibition at Gallery 7, Covent Garden.

I'm really happy with what they said.

"..With an inaugural exhibition of work from Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy – an illustrator awarded the coveted D&Ad Best New Blood award last year – Gallery 7 is setting itself a high standard to sustain.

Pomeroy’s work is dark to the point of downright ghoulishness .
she adopts arbitrary snippits from low-rent weeklies and adapts them to her own rather grisly designs. Comic, irreverent and technically mesmerising, Pomeroy’s illustrations offer a delicate glimpse into her left-of-centre outlook on life."

http://www.wallpaper.com/art/gallery-7-inaugural-show-london/3226

!Exhibition!

2009-03-03T06:03:00.000-08:00

An exhibition of my work will be held in the gallery at Super Superficial, Covent Garden.

Heres what DesignWeek.co.uk had to say..

"Clothing company Super Superficial is opening a new illustration gallery in Covent Garden, London WC2.

The gallery, which will open on 3 April, will be in the basement of the Super Superficial shop at 22 Earlham Street.

Super Superficial collaborates with artists and designers on a shared-profit basis to produce limited-edition clothes.

Super Superficial’s David Kay says, ‘When we opened the store we always had the idea of putting a gallery in the basement.’

Kay says the gallery design and show curating will be by Super Superficial, and the first show will be I Married a Toyboy Convict, by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy, who recently won the D&AD Best New Blood Award.

The show draws inspiration from real-life stories published in weekly women’s magazines.

Kay says the gallery will host shows from a mixture of up-and-coming and more established illustrators, with exhibitions from Hannah Melin and Matt Johnstone already planned."

www.designweek.co.uk

Take My Breath Away

2009-03-01T14:34:00.000-08:00

Image for an anti-smoking campaign I've been commissioned for.

2009-02-20T15:01:00.001-08:00

Weird videos on youtube...

2009-02-11T15:03:00.000-08:00

Inspired me to draw these from my head at work..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_aiRGXghIY&feature=related

Doodles at work

2009-01-08T08:06:00.001-08:00

Here are a few drawings i've done when i've been bored. Most are based on photos or articles i' ve found in magazines and the Metro. The one of the woman with tattoos is from Russian Criminal tattoos.

My Illustration on Set of Channel 4 Show 'The I.T Crowd' !

2008-11-30T02:01:00.000-08:00

The people behind the C4 show 'The IT Crowd' asked me if they might be able to use my work (the family portrait above) for the set for season 3, obviously I said yes. It aired last week, here are some pictures of my work on set!

(All photos copyright of Channel 4 and the IT Crowd)

2008-11-04T16:46:00.000-08:00

Finally, Here are some final designs for SuzukiDen

2008-11-04T15:07:00.000-08:00

Sorry it took me a while to upload them, I've been moving house/moving city/ havn't had the internet.

More things to come...Including something on a Channel 4 Series!!ooh

Suzuki Den

2008-08-10T11:01:00.000-07:00

Over the last few weeks I have been working on a commission for Suzuki at a showroom in Hackney. The client wanted the interior of the showroom to be transformed and its clinical white walls to become more personalised and urban looking, similar to the surrounding neighbourhood.

I have designed a number of images, mainly portraits, with a theme of Suzuki's history and past heroes (and a couple of other iconic motorbike themed characters including an old school Hell's Angel). I painted the images directly onto the walls, using a projector.

It's a work in progress but here are some photos of the job so far..

Bend Over I'll Drive

2008-07-28T05:21:00.000-07:00

Flyer illustration for Bend Over I'll Drive. It's a pretty straight forward portrait of a plump, smug girl's passport photo I found in a charity shop.

Bend Over I'll Drive! Fortnightly tuesdays at the Penthouse (above the freebutt, down the side of the Phoenix Gallery by St Peters Church) , Brighton.

August 12th, August 26th, September 9th and September 23

Topsy-Turvey

2008-07-20T05:22:00.000-07:00

This is the image I created for a print project set by the wonderful Jonny Hannah. A collection of up and coming illustrators worked with a University from New York to produce a series of silk screen prints responding to words typically associated with London and New York. The London based illustrators (me included) were given words or phrases for New York and the New Yorkers were given words for London.

Mine is NY Cop.

D&AD

2008-06-26T11:48:00.003-07:00

Yesterday I won a Best Newblood Award at the D&AD for my book, I Married a Toyboy Convict and my life size paper doll.

'D&AD has announced the winners of its New Blood Awards, ahead of the D&AD Student Awards taking place tonight.

Thirty six students exhibiting at the D&AD New Blood 2008 graduate recruitment exhibition were chosen as the ‘best in show’ in their respective disciplines.

They were selected by a panel of creative industry leaders as producers of the best work from the 120 exhibiting courses at the show.

Winners include Chris Wharton from Bath Spa University, Jonathan Naismith from Glasgow School of Art and Louise Pomeroy from Kingston University.'

(www.designweek.co.uk)

I Married a Toyboy Convict

2008-06-26T02:32:00.000-07:00

A book of illustrated short stories taken from True Life magazines (Chat, Pick Me Up, Love It!)

Living Doll (Peter Pigtails)

Butchered In the Bath

Portraits from The Beard and Moustache Championships 07'

2008-06-25T16:06:00.000-07:00

Beard and Moustache Postcard in Counterpart Zine!

2008-04-20T13:35:00.000-07:00

Over summer I attended the World Beard and Moustache championships '07 in Brighton. An amazing day with some incredibly impressive facial hair. Plus Nick Cave and Billy Childish on the judging pannel added to the entertainment.

This image was later featured in Counterpart DVD (http://www.myspace.com/counterpartmagazine) as 1 of 4 collecters artists postcards. The DVD featured music and videos from Foals, Dan Deacon, Mika Miko and Noah and the whale amongst others.

Do Tattoos Make Women Look Cheap?

Selected images from a series in response to the 'debate' forum on The Sun newspaper website about whether tattoos on a womans body make her look cheap and less attractive.

"I don't regret a single one"

"What sort of role model will you be for your future children? They'll get bullied
at school. What will you do then? Grow your hair to cover them all?"

"You won't see them unless I show them"

NYC Sketchbook

2007-07-26T08:02:00.001-07:00

New York City field trip March 07

(Click on an image to see larger size)

Sketchbook

2007-07-26T06:05:00.000-07:00

Selected pages from personal sketchbook started Jan 07.

Most of whats featured in here is drawings of people I know, or people sat on trains when I've been travelling between Brighton and London.

(Click on an image to see larger size)