Leomi Sadler
Happy Birthday
September 10th – November 6th, 2021
Preview: Friday 10th September, 6-8pm*
Artist talk: Thursday 4th November, 7-8.30pm
Happy Birthday is a solo exhibition of new and re-visited work by artist, designer, cartoonist and publisher, Leomi Sadler.
After a decade of publishing and self-publishing comic books, Sadler has become somewhat of a cult figure of the alternative comic scene, leading to this years much anticipated release of Tummy Bugs (Breakdown Press), an anthology offering a historical, thematic and material perspective over comic based work produced over recent years.
Alongside printed matter, Leomi’s drawing style both extends to and derives from her various sculptural forms and reliefs. Executed in materials as wide ranging as fabric, clay, resin and found objects, these utilise the application of loose, fuzzy and globby materials, often directed and assembled through re-forming past drawings & sculptures, layering materials and reappropriating found images and objects.
With her brother Stef Sadler and a core group of collaborators including GHXYK2, Kitty Clark and Uncle Jon Chandler, Leomi runs the revered “anti-ambitious entity” Famicon Express. An imprint that publishes their own material alongside a wider group of collaborators and affiliates.
Leomi also runs Tydrax 618, a production platform that produces hand made and printed garments that have also extended to items including hair extensions and staging live-events and performance, and also co-edits the Mould-Map series of magazines with Hugh Frost (Landfill Editions). Leomi has also designed garments for and with fashion houses and labels including Givenchy, Gasius, Brain Dead, Heresy and most recently Perks and Mini.
*Let it be known "This is how I decorate a cake!".
To extend the exhibition opening celebrations we ran a cake decorating competition. Everyone who came to the opening was invited to bring a cake they had decorated themselves. Judged by Leomi herself, the best decorated cake won a special prize and all entrants received a special thank you gift.
Limited edition artwork available here.
I Cannot Forgive But I Am Very Good At Pretending :), 2018
Jesmonite, adhesive, dye and wood with rubber coated fittings.
30 x 49 x 2.5 cm
Dream If You Can Dream It You Can Do It DREAM If You Can, 2021
Jesmonite, plaster, adhesive, dye, paper, paints, piano hinge and wood.
200 x 88 x 62 cm
Everything You Do Your Guardian Angel Is Watching, 2019 - 21
Jesmonite, adhesive, dye, paint and MDF.
70 x 35 x 1 cm
Vintage Style Landscape And Useful, 2014
Glazed Stoneware.
29 x 29 x 11 cm
I didn't Ask For This, 2021
Mirrored domestic decor x8
Dimensions variable
I didn't Ask For This (Detail), 2021
Mirrored domestic decor x8
Dimensions variable
I didn't Ask For This (Detail), 2021
Mirrored domestic decor x8
Dimensions variable
Left: Family Toilet Is A Little World Created By Love, 2011
Drawing ink, solvent ink, biro enamel and house paint on paper with butterfly pins.
63.5 x 45 cm
Right: Happiness Is A Clean And Organised Home, 2011-2020
Drawing ink, solvent ink, dye-based aquarell, spray-paint and house paint on collaged paper with butterfly pins.
59 x 41 cm
Don't Forget The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn, 2019-21
Jesmonite, adhesive, polymer paint, dye and wood.
43 x 58 x 2 cm
I Don't Have Hardly Any Love To Give So Stop Expecting It From Me, 2021
Jesmonite, adhesive, dye and correx with aluminium fittings and butterfly pins.
100 x 51 x 3 cm
Photo: Adam Grainger
On the occasion of this exhibition we are selling the following edition, available to buy here.
Leomi Sadler,
I’ll Do It Later, 2021
Screen-print and digital print on paper
42 x 59 cm (Slight variations between editions)
Edition of 12. Each individual edition is unique.
