//Le Gun’s Planet Frottage, one of the group works featured in Space Is Deep//

Tomorrow sees the opening of Space Is Deep, the latest exhibition from art collective Le Gun.

The show, at London’s Daniel Blau gallery and featuring contributions from fellow travellers such as Wildcat Will Blanchard, Andrzej Klimowski and Will Sweeney, marks a departure for the group; for the first time work in colour is included alongside Le Gun’s trademark monochrome representations.

“We felt the time was right to introduce some colour and started off by making two technicolour free-form ‘nightmare paintings’, says Robert Rubbish, who founded Le Gun in 2004 with fellow artist/illustrators Bill Bragg, Chris Bianchi, Neal Fox and Stephanie von Reiswitz and designers Alex Wright and Matt Appleton.

“Then we reassessed our approach, fine-tuned our colour pallet and made three space-inspired paintings, taking references from the likes of (horror/scifi comic artist) LB Cole and  Tintin’s adventure Explorers On The Moon.”

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Tags: Alex Wright, Andrzej Klimowski, Bill Bragg, Chris Bianchi, Daniel Blau, Doremi Fasol Latido, Explorers On The Moon, Hawkwind, In Search Of Space, LB Cole, Le Gun, Matt Appleton, Neal Fox, Space Is Deep, Space Ritual, Steph von Reiswitz, Tintin, Wildcat Will Blanchard, Will Sweeney

//Selection of poster prints Graham Wood made for Magick Is Freedom! (After Barney Bubbles)//

Best known as one of the founders of British design collective Tomato, Graham Wood chose a 1968 poster for underground magazine Oz as the wellspring for a series of 24 poster prints.

I corresponded with Wood about the ways in which the original artwork- made by Barney Bubbles and his 60s design partner David Wills with a team of contributors – sparked inspiration for the two dozen A0-size posters, which were exhibited in Stockholm in November 2012.

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Tags: David Wills, Do It Yourself, Existence Is Unhappiness, Graham Wood, Hawkwind, In Search Of Space, malcolm Garrett, My Aim Is True, neville Brody, New Boots & Panties!!, Oz, Peter Saville, Scarlett Gallery, Tomato, Vaughan Oliver