OUTCROWD COLLECTIVE: June 2007

TEN 4 MAGAZINE INTERVIEW

The Outcrowd were recently interviewed and photographed for Ten4 magazine and quizzed about the perks and pitfalls of running a creative collective. Above is one group photo taken for the article sporting some budget masks I made. You can view our thoughts in magazine format or online and we're in fine company. http://www.channel4.com/4talent/ten4/collectives.htm/

THE OUTCROWD AT SONAR!!!

Next week we're off to Barcelona for the Annual Sonar festival of progressive music and multimedia arts, well...we're going to visually bother the Spanish, if you happen to be there to, then come by our stall and buy a badge!

Website under construction!!!

THIS IS A TEMPORARY BLOG WEBSITE!!! We'll be slowly bunging up the old content, artists, archive, info and links as well as (eventually) up to date news regarding all our visual shennanigans. Our REVISED WEBSITE will be ether bound towards the end of the summer so check back soon and keep those peeps wide eyed!!!

In the mean time please check out http://www.studio4gallery.blogspot.com/ for relevant news and links to Outcrowders websites and affiliates. If however you are in dia need of our creative outpourings then you can contact us via the demonic virtual world at http://www.myspace.com/theoutcrowdcollective/

Manifesto

Here's to the crazy folk, the round pegs in the square holes, the misfits, the recluses and the strangers. The people on the fringes of society, outsiders looking over, looking in..."

"The Outcrowd" is a shambolic visual collection of hoodlums and battered psyches, born out of a basic obsession to create. Not to be trusted with pen, paper or any other medium that can leave a mark. Initially formed amongst a group of friends, skateboarders, Illustrators, Designers, Image-Makers and Lurkers.

The Outcrowd has taken on an organic, parasitic growth form, spanning continents and breaking cultural boundaries as more creators mutate to survive. Compiled, curated and realised in 2004 by two artists Lawrence Roper and Simon Peplow (Mr Ben has also been taking a more active role of late).

"This is chance for some of us to air our secret visual diaries, a mass of weird visions and telephone squiggles, that until now have been left ominously gathering dust in darkened corners. For others it's about escaping and creating work they enjoy, outside of any particular agenda. It's about a personal freedom to express themselves. And it's about creating a network to share ideas, collaborate, exhibit, commission and expose. After the success of their first group exhibition in February 2004 The Outcrowd have continued onwards and upwards steadily gathering awards, accolades, commissions, publications, collaborations, exhibitions and growing notoriety on their eventful trail.

We like to keep things loose these days; more of a co-op than a collective. With ever evolving members and co-conspiritors, projects, opportunities, networks, as well as a platform to show case new work, exhibitions, prints, books, t-shirts, badges and a plethora of crafty collectable ephemera created under the Outcrowd umbrella. Be prepared for a continuous visual onslaught from these pencil wrestling enthusiasts.

We Are all Temporary

TEN 4 MAGAZINE INTERVIEW

THE OUTCROWD AT SONAR!!!

Website under construction!!!

Manifesto

Say Hey

Incidentals

Art Makers & Chums

Archive