Friday 24 May 2013

Faces from discarded objects

Stranger Visions: DNA Collected from Found Objects Used to Create 3D Portraits



Facing the Genetic Future
Sitting in a therapist’s office, New York City artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg discovered a hair
lodged in a crack in the glass covering a painting on the wall. “I stared at it for an hour,”
she says. “I couldn’t stop wondering who it belonged to, and what I could find out about
that person.”
After reading a story in Science about the new field of forensic DNA phenotyping
(18 February 2011, p. 838), Dewey-Hagborg decided to turn her fascination into an art
project. She collected 11 hairs left around the city by strangers and learned how to test their
DNA at a genetics lab. Now, she’s printing three dimensional masks, or approximations, of those
people’s faces, which will be on display—along with her own—in a January exhibition called Stranger
Visions. The masks reflect eye color, geographical roots, sex, and other traits, but not exact facial
features because forensic phenotyping can’t fill in all the details. But it might one day, and with ever
cheaper sequencing, an era of “genetic surveillance” is looming, says Dewey-Hagborg. “As a society, we
need to have a discussion about that.”

1381 Myrtle ave. Brooklyn, NY
MtDNA Haplogroup: H2a2a1 (Eastern European)
SRY Gene: present
Gender: Male
HERC2 Gene: AA
Eye Color: Brown
















Heather Dewey-Hagborg with self portrait 
Full bio and other work at http://deweyhagborg.com/

Monday 20 May 2013

Lenka Rayn H (havelockwalk open studios)

Thanks to Havelock walk's open studio's i have found a huge amount of inspiration right on my doorstep in Forest Hill (www.havelockwalk.com)

I will be doing a little series featuring a few of what i really loved starting with Lenka, her beautiful studio covered in Acer plants in full Technicolour was an inspiration of photography hidden at the end of the cobbled street. Bellow are a few of her pieces. Please do check out the full series at: www.lenkaraynh.com



 





Friday 8 February 2013

Forest Hill Fashion Week

Come to Forest hill next week;
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Friday 14 December 2012

Fresh hip hop!



Thought this beat with rhymes from  JAM BAXTER was a bit of alright, thought id share his new stuff for old times sake.  Heard him when he was 16 rhyming over friends beats and was impressed back then. The boy come good! 

Friday 7 December 2012

10% off in-store purchase @ Our pop up shop (Sydenham)

Print this flyer and bring it down to our shop

CONQUERS WARDROBE:

10% off in store only till the 24th of december,  also Friday night late night shopping with a FREE glass of mulled wine 6-9pm!

Monday 3 December 2012

Conquer's Wardrobe, open and running!


With Louise Brooks (SEE3) in the space before the epic shop fitting.
Window.
Shop Open,
Dave: here to help!
 visitors.
 Mayor opening the project at the Hub
 Mayor likes conquer
 Decadorn @ Conquer's Wardrobe
 Alyssa Boni @ Conquer's Wardrobe
 Tintine @ Conquer's Wardrobe
For the love of Law @ Conquer's Wardrobe
Patch Shirts & Pen and Gravy lampshades @ Conquer's Wardrobe
 Clajs @ Conquer's Wardrobe
 Shop counter.

 Art and Ethics
 OPEN TILL DECEMBER 24th
Conquer's Wardrobe
Wed - Sunday
10-6pm
10-5pm weekends

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Monday 19 November 2012

Announcing our "Conquer Wardrobe" Christmas Pop Up Shop – Sydenham


 We are very glad to announce our Christmas pop up shop:

on the 1st of December we will be opening the door's to Conquers Wardrobe

Conquer’s Wardrobe at Unit 4, Sydenham Station Approach, London SE26 5au
In collaboration with SEE3 we are opening the doors to our very first shop space, For the month of December we will be displaying Art pieces, Having a photo exhibition, Selling Conquers Collections and having a few choice pieces from other art and craft labels that we fill our wardrobe's with. We look forward to being a destination for local and not so local residents with late night openings every Friday night for December, interactive art, Mulled wine, and music is a distinct possibility!




           On December 1st we open the doors with our "adults at play" exhibition as part of our I'm Five collection:

Do you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up? with a photo booth at this years Secret Garden Party during our festival tour inside the Secret Emporium we captured young and old at play and encouraged a level of imagination and fun not usually associated with growing up!
Come and see the exhibit for 1 month only @ Conquers Wardrobe (photography by Alyssa Boni)


Saturday 5 May 2012

Monday 19 December 2011

Merry Christmas, Have a free present from Conquer

We recently created some christmas decorations for the Secret Emporium secret christmas market @ Village underground, and thought we might share it with the rest of the conquer people out there in the world. When printed you can either make christmas baubles as we have in our conquer home, or you can play Drop Dead the dice game (instructions included.) Some assembly required but they look fantastic made up.

Full image can be downloaded by clicking here enjoy!



Post some pictures to our facebook, we would love to see your efforts and interpretations of how you used the final box.

Merry Christmas everyone.

C xx

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Axed Movie premier

Conquer is found at the recent premier of Axed, No prizes given for naming the shirt he is waring, if you do pop the answer on the back of a postcard do it for prosperity and time killing, feel free to post it to conquer, you never know it might get to us.
Thank you to Christopher Rithin for sending us the picks, And good luck with the acting roles mate. Keep it up.


Tuesday 18 October 2011

Thursday 17 March 2011

One more place you can find Conquer;

Conquer Clothing is now available fromThe Style Showroom:



featured designers are innovative and diverse each having their own unique style, which adds individuality to the store. Dare to be different and you are guaranteed to find something whatever your fashion fix might need!!!! An added bonus is the quirky lifestyle pieces and wall graphics.




Style Showroom
t: 0207 734 9800
Unit 1.5 Kingly Court
Carnaby
London
W1