International designers Timorous Beasties work with Blackburn Cafe

New art work entitled Japonisme a la Brule le Noir designed by internationally acclaimed, award winning design duo Timorous Beasties has been installed in the window of the new El Greco café in the Pavilions on Church Street in Blackburn. 
 

Commissioned by Creativity Works, the piece has drawn inspiration from the impressive collections of Japanese prints and prints of local landmarks housed in Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery as well as hinting at the cotton and wallpaper industries which have been so prevalent in the town. The work, which is part of the ReVisit campaign, has been designed to shed new light on the beautiful and curious collections housed at the museum and inspire and encourage people to visit and discover more treasures. 
  

Timorous Beasties work can be seen internationally from New York to Paris, London to Milan. Their designs can be seen in a variety of diverse places from the walls of Michelin star restaurants to stage curtains at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Wall Street, New York. By inviting such celebrated creative people to work in the area alongside our own home grown talent, Creativity Works hopes to highlight the wealth of culture available in Pennine Lancashire, challenge museums to use their collections in new ways and bring new audiences into the venues, places and spaces of Pennine Lancashire.
 

For more information on ReVisit please see www.creativityworks.info
 

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Editors Notes:
 

1. More high res images are available on request.
 

2. Creativity Works is an initiative co-ordinated by the Arts and Cultural Officers of the six Pennine Lancashire districts, Arts Council England, Curious Minds and Lancashire County Council.
 

3. The ReVisit programme is a series of commissions by five national and international artists’ collaborations across Pennine Lancashire’s museums and galleries including new work from Stuart Haygarth, Steve Manthorp and Grennan & Sperandio. The artists seek to throw new light on the venues beautiful and curious collections in order to bring the venues and their collections to a new audience. This work is funded by Arts Council England and Renaissance North West.
 

4. Alongside this piece local artist Sarah Lawton has been running creative print sessions on Wednesdays and Saturdays at the museum to give people the chance to take inspiration from the museum’s collections in their own way.
 

5. More information about the work of Timorous Beasties can be found at http://www.timorousbeasties.com/
 

For more details contact:

Elaine Lees
Creativity Works Communications Officer
Elaine.lees@blackburn.gov.uk
01254 667130

Laura Rodgers
Creativity Works Arts Engagement Officer
Laura.rodgers@blackburn.gov.uk
07896272045