The Framers

We will be hosting this exhibition throughout April, as part of flatpack film festivals 68 weekend, in our shiny new exhibition space on Gibb Street featuring a selection of posters, cuttings and images drawn from the programme. And some editions for sale.

Opening night as part of Digbeth first Friday, 6th April.

On 15 April from 12:00 – 16:00 the space will host a free Sunday Social drop-in workshop for all ages, where you can make your own stencil art and psychedelic posters.

flatpack festival

As you may have heard i’m moving to a new gallery and workshop here at the Custard Factory in the New Year. So it’s time to clear out the old gallery; spare stock, antique frames, odds and ends, big clearance sale! Starting this Saturday 25th to join in with the Digmas event happening across Custard ground floor. Come grab a bargain!

Occasiomaly we get some celebraties and well known artists through our door but this was an absolute treat after we’d somewhat caught olympic fever at the framers during the games. Robbie Grabarz, olympic high jump bronze medalist bought his vest he was wearing when he won the medal to get framed, what an honour and he seemed pretty pleased with our handy work!

Leading up the the London 2012 Olympics we started collecting these great Munich ’72 original posters, heralded as design classics by German designer  Otl Aicher. We had a mini exhibition of these over the duration of London 2012 games, along with some of this years Artist commission poster series. We still have a selection of these original posters for sale in the Gallery.

I’d like to think we can frame almost anything, here we framed a Death-Head Hawkmoth, so called because of the “skull” in it’s back pattern. Nicely box framed, actually an obscure film memorabilia piece as this species was used in the film Silence of the Lambs.

We got hold of these original old Birmingham Bus Blinds for the galley, noticed they had some in Selfridges for twice as much as we charge! We have a selection of destinations available, pop into the gallery and ask if you’re interested.

We’ve framed a lot of this chaps beautiful film poster prints, he does some amazing detailed illustrations and seems popular amongst our customers, had a lot brought in to get framed, check out his work here

Just framed this set of  Vintage Polish Circus posters for a shop in London, done a few of these over the years this is a particularly good set, love the illustrations on these, reminiscent of The Beatles Yellow Submarine.

New year, new VAT! We’ve been busy framing lots of new stock for the gallery, we’ve started to invest in some nice classic and vintage prints to compliment the illustration we’ve been promoting over the years. These are all a little more affordable than some of the limited prints we regularly stock so you can still get some great pieces on your wall for your budget in this present economy. We’ve got some vintage adverts, B-movie posters, propaganda posters, music/rock prints as well as a few classic pop art and japanese woodblock illustration prints to name a few.

We regularly Frame Football shirts and other sports memorabilia, there are various finishes and techniques for framing shirts, here’s a few examples of some we’ve done both for private clients, charity events and clubs.