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RCA Secret 2016 (London and Dubai), with a total of three postcards each by FL@33’s Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek for the 22nd annual postcard exhibition and fundraising sale, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 8–15 April 2016 and for the second time in Dubai, Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 16–19 March 2016.
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RCA SECRET 2016 | TOMI VOLLAUSCHEK'S POSTCARD CONTRIBUTIONS (3 OF 6)
Shown here are three mixed-media postcard contributions by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek experimenting with soap bubble ink prints, laser print toner and colour pencils to interpret the theme of growth.
___ Another three FL@33 2016 contributions created by Agathe Jacquillat were posted on a separate project page – you can see them here.
___ Agathe and Tomi contributed a total of six postcards for Stewarts Law RCA Secret 2016 – the 22nd postcard exhibition and fundraising sale. Fig. 01 (#1694/UK) and Fig. 02 (#535/UK) were on display at London's Royal College of Art (8–15 April 2016), while Fig. 03 (#84/Dubai) was part of the RCA Secret Dubai exhibition (16–19 March 2016). All proceeds support students at the Royal College of Art.
___ We would love to know who bought our cards. Please do let us know if you have any of our RCA Secret contributions. If you can and don't mind please send us a picture or two of the framed postcards for this very website.
THE SECRET
Prices for these original works of art increased over the years but are still available for a reasonable £55 (considering that some sell for thousands of pounds at auctions sometimes). You guess who it's by. The postcards are signed only on the reverse. The author of each work remains a secret until after the cards are purchased and the signature on the back is revealed.
___ There are usually 2,500 – 3,000 postcards on display (in 2016 a total of 3,120 with a maximum of three by contributor) and as we wrote in FL@33's book Postcard (Laurence King, 2008):
Viewers (...) must pretend not to be disappointed if they mistake a FL@33 card (such as those featured here) for a Damien Hirst or ...
Categories: Customisation, FL@33 projects, Graphic art, Illustration, Installations | Exhibits, Posters | Postcards, Print, Typography
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