Timorous Beasties will be working with working with Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery (Spring 2011)
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery
Timorous Beasties will be working with BMAG to create work through exploring the vast collections of print housed at the museum. Still in the planning stages, Timorous Beasties hope to use an empty shop space in the town centre and a partnership with local wallpaper company Graham and Brown to interpret and present aspects of the collection in a contemporary and unexpected way.
About the artists
Noted for its surreal and provocative textiles and wallpapers, the design studio Timorous Beasties was founded in Glasgow in 1990 by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons, who met while studying textile design at Glasgow School of Art.
By depicting uncompromisingly contemporary images on traditional textiles and wallpapers, Timorous Beasties has defined an iconoclastic style of design once described as “William Morris on acid.”
McAuley and Simmons also execute special commissions, such as fabrics for Philip Treacy’s hats and for the interiors of the Arches Theatre in Glasgow and 50 Piccadilly, a London casino.
Timorous Beasties are experimental in approach to both hand-printing and machine production. These changes are reflected in an evolving aesthetic: from early wayward interpretations of naturalistic images of insects, plants and fish; to a searingly contemporary graphic style which, as Glasgow Toile illustrates, explores social and political issues.
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Museum Street
Blackburn
BB1 7AJ
01254 667 130
