Warm up to Secret 7"

This week I’ve been particularly engaging with the social updates from Secret 7”.

Secret 7” takes 7 tracks from 7 of the best-known musicians around and presses each one 100 times to 7” vinyl. They then openly invite artist of multiple disciplines to create artwork for the 7 tracks. The result is 700 unique records which are exhibited in London before being auctioned, where 100% of profits are donated to Choose Love - Help Refugees.

This year, is sadly the last year of the exhibition, and due to covid it’s been done a little differently. However I’m so glad I found out about it just in time to make a contribution to the final year.

I submitted 2 illustrations for the tracks, Koffee - Toast and The Internet - Come Over, as these are two of my favourite recording artists right now. The image submitted for The Internet sadly didn’t make the cut, however I’m really happy with the end result!

The Internet - Come Over, Vinyl mockup

My illustration submission for Koffee - Toast did however make it into the show! Due to the secret nature of the exhibition, I can’t show it just yet, so if you want to see it, you’ll have to make you way down to the Exhibition at NOW Gallery between the 14th Oct and 1st November and try and suss out what contribution is mine. - Entry is free, but you have to book!

I’ve never been involved in project of this sort, so I’m incredibly exciting to see my worst amongst many artists I admire.

This week Secret 7“ have been posting a lot of content as a sort of warm up, and this has only built my excitement further. They released a podcast featuring many long-term contributing artists, one of which is Kate Moross, a designer I’ve been following since the beginning of my art journey!

Kentish Town billboard for Secret 7"

This image from @diabolicalest93 was re-posted on socials. It shows a photograph of a billboard in Kentish Town advertising the exhibition and it features my tiny contributing illustration. This was a really surreal moment for me as being from North London, Kentish Town is an area I visited regularly in my adolescence and inspired me a lot growing up. I’m hoping the view at the exhibition will bring even more of this same feeling!