Alongside our curation and art working commissioning for GULP magazine, we have hosted temporary exhibitions.

Co-founder of our platform, Natasha Kay-Sportelli, has studied curating, art theory and institutional practice, graduating at a Masters level. Reflecting her interest in underground artistic practice and exploratory curation, expanding GULP into a space that supports the early stages in the development of an artwork and the commissioning of experimental ideas felt like a natural step. 

Through the umbrella of GULP, she has curated and independently funded several exhibitions, and hopes to establish a working connection between our platform and the artists we advocate for.

As part of the launch of Issue No. 7 of GULP magazine, we hosted an installation of longtime collaborator Jordan Warren’s design work in art book shop, UniTom, from 22nd-24th September.  Warren’s work has occupied our broadsheet multiple times, included the centrefold for Issue No.7.

Jordan Warren is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Essex, UK. A multi-instrumentalist and record collector himself, Warren specialises in designs for the music industry, with an emphasis on composition and form used for physical media. Aside from his signature digital airbrush illustration style, his work features elements of 3D graphics, animation and bespoke typography; creating multiple custom typefaces. His work seeks to enhance the sensory experience of the listener, using strong textures and surrealist visuals to evoke a heightened interaction between the music and its audience.

Since graduating in 2020, he has been commissioned by Sony Music Nashville, Bandcamp, Reverberation Appreciation Society Sacred Bones Records, Big Machine Label Group, Greenway Records, Fellow Creatures, North Bend Film Festival, Library of the Occult, Up In Her Room, SFI Records, Eeasy Records and Sour Grapes Records.

www.jordanwarrenvisuals.co.uk/

@JordanWarrenVisuals

GULP PRESENTS...

Sonic Reconstructions

16th- 31st October 2021

Hosted by PINK

86 Princess St | M1 6NG

Alex Cook - Shane Dickinson - Nile Marr - Millie Thomas - Freda Wallace

Working from the theme of rebuilding and reconstructing, ‘Sonic Reconstructions’ focuses on reconsidering the traditional paths of sound making, encouraging artists to reevaluate their practice and push the boundaries of what their musical output can be. Assessing if de-constructing and re-contextualising is necessary or a productive notion, 5 artists were chosen as they rethink their approach to creating music and the environment it is experienced in, through multi-media installation. 

Immersion of audience participation and analog equipment is utilised to bring a unique experience to every interaction. Machines traditionally used to measure or facilitate music are repurposed as instruments, manipulated and enhanced to experiment with how changing the context of an object can construct new sonic effects. Cooperation between the viewer and the artwork is centred to incorporate elements of chance, spontaneity and biological factors which affect the succession of the sounds. 

Alex Cook, Millie Thomas and Shane Dickinson have collaborated on ‘The Quadraphonic Plant Synthesiser’. It raises awareness of the encroaching environmental breakdown through its use of  bio-data of plants to trigger a host of synthesisers to create an immersive experience. 

Nile Marr’s ‘Midnight Blooms’ materialises the process of deterioration and sonic longevity, facilitating the need for sound that is constructed in order to be deconstructed. Marr has created 7 unique ambient compositions recorded onto cassette tape, which are heard individually for the duration of the exhibition.

When Freda Wallace thinks about musical instruments, she views them as complex machines that when combined with human interaction create harmonious or percussive sounds. The metronome, traditionally is not used as an instrument as such but a device to keep time. It is a tool to syncopate sounds. Wallace places ‘The Click’ as the main sound, the guiding beat; stripping down sound to the simplest noise.

MUSICA! MUSICA! MUSICA!

The first solo exhibition by Raissa Pardini landed in Manchester after a huge success in London and Milan.

After producing graphics and design for music's leading independent artists, labels and clubs around the world (via Milan, Berlin, London and Glasgow), MUSICA! MUSICA! MUSICA! focused on Raissa Pardini's contribution to music and design through old-school typography, retro patterns and colourful detail.

Positive & fresh, Raissa's works (IDLES, Squid, The Orielles, POND, Snapped Ankles + more) filled the walls of 86 Princess Street, in collaboration with PINK.