Announcing 'The Secret Members' Show'

Humbled by the response to our last two shows, we're most excited to finally pull the silk sheet off the next one: The Secret Members' Show.

Featuring specially-commissioned new work by one male and 17 female international artists and craftspeople, this is the first group created by Factoryroad, and will showcase work in a bewildering array of media by

Andrea Gibson, Boulder, Colorado

Anne Coleman, Hinckley 

April Ball, London

Beth Robinson’s Strange Dolls, Vermont

Caroline Allen, Brighton

Drew Jerrison, Leicester

Florence EMA Blanchard, Paris

Inkymole, Factoryroad Gallery

Jacquie O'Neill, Cornwall

Jill Calder, Kingdom of Fife

Kelly Merrell, Leicester

Lily Blythe, Stoke on Trent

Lisa Hayes, Hinckley

Melanie Tomlinson, Birmingham

Rebecca Lewis, Reading

Rebecca Lupton, Manchester

Shirley Gibson, Glasgow

Tracy Walker, Hinckley

Guests and contributors are invited to the opening night on

Saturday 24th September, 5pm till 11pm

Factoryroad Gallery

Hinckley

Leicestershire

t: 07545 599801

e: gallery@factoryroad.net

w: http://www.factoryroadgallery.net

The exhibits will remain on show until Friday 11th October. If you'd like to come during the week, just let us know. gallery@factoryroad.net

Since this is a living/working space as well as a gallery, attendance is strictly by RSVP to gallery@factoryroad.net

Once you email we'll send the full address! 

And if you need accommodation or help with travel plans, do email, we have information ready.

Please note that although youngsters are usually welcomed to our shows, this one contains adult themes, so is:

We cannot wait!

Lily's blog.

We have a guest blogger this month, Lily Blythe from Stoke on Trent, who is working at the Inkymole studio just a month after graduating with a first in Graphic Design. Lily has something of an obsession with - and incredible flair for - typography, and was in the audience at the last college lecture I did in 2010. When she approached us at the D&AD New Talent Show last month, we were only too pleased to get her involved in our current projects.

Watch this space for more about What Lily Did Next!

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This month I was invited down to the Inkymole Studio to lend a helping hand in this month's installation at The Factoryroad Gallery space.

After bumping into Sarah at the D&AD exhibition in London in July, on the last day at around closing time, we got chatting and she was kind enough to give me a project to help keep my hands and mind busy. The brief was to use all of Inky's unfinished creative scribbles, which were a result of years of process work showing an insight in the life of a busy creative.

I kept an open mind and when shown the three crates of work, thought…this isn't that much. Little did I know that once I started to delve into Sarah's work, it was like Pandora's box. Thousands of tiny treasures on scraps of paper, ones which folded out, ones which were covered in coffee stains, blue-tac and ink splurges, and ones which were stuffed into folders along with many other different versions. All of which were done with love.

Whilst taking this sneak peak into Sarah's work I saw that being a creative with such love and passion, it really isn't a job, but it's her life. All the stains on the work showed hard working nights, and early mornings, thousands of drafts trying to get the right solution for a client (and yourself). Every picture really did tell its own story.

After reflecting on all the hard work we put in as creatives, many of us with little money in our pockets, many sleepless nights and cluttered work spaces, this experience has made me realise that I really do love what I do and I can't wait to get my first foot in the door of the creative industry.

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The show is on the walls of The Factoryroad Gallery until our group show in September, 'The Penis Show', opening Saturday September 24th. If you're interested in calling in for a look, please get in touch on gallery@factoryroad.net and we'll get the kettle on.