The lovely Lindsey & Claire of one of my favourite magazines, BALLAD OF, have featured me online. You can see the feature here on Ballad Of online—http://balladof.co.uk/2012/03/jasiminne-yip/#. x

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Those of you lucky enough to be following me on Twitter, Facebook, AND my lifestyle blog Posh, Broke, & Bored will by now have had enough about hearing me go ON and ON about this art fair in Chelsea that I’m participating in. Pardon me, but I’m quite tickled that a respected art historian/theorist would even ask me to exhibit & sell my work in an art fair among much more talented artists in a venue as rich in history as Chelsea Town Hall, King’s Road. Any excuse really, to sit in the courtyard of Bluebird with my frames taking up a WHOLE seat while I bleat loudly into my Blackberry, “Yah, that’s what I said, £1000 for the set, FRAMED, it’s a bargain raaah-lly…”

The private view was last night and happily it was a success. Huge turnout, including many very gorgeous posh men in cashmere and tweeds (who I may or may not have stalked), intimidating ‘industry people’, friends & acquaintances, interesting artists from around the world who flew in specially to exhibit, AND Twitter & Facebook followers I’d never met. These people are awesome…why am I so lucky? I don’t deserve you all.

Anyway, here are the photos from the private view. Kindly disregard the jarring switch from one watermark to another—some of the photos were meant for Posh, Broke, & Bored as well as my ILLUSTRATION WEBSITE  and I was too lazy to change the PBB watermarks. I know, I’m a bad blogger, smack me.

The calm before the storm. There was a long queue to enter PAF even before the private view started at 7pm. I sneaked past the line and skipped the open bar (where many artists were taking advantage of their earlier arrivals to drink as much free wine as possible) to take photos before the place filled up with crowds of people.

The venue was beyond gorgeous…I would DIE to have my first solo show here. But first I would have to actually make more than ONE outstanding piece a year…at this rate I will be 50, or dead, before I have my own show let alone a retrospective.

“Conceived as a summer of trophy fucks, MEAT is a post-feminist introspective on using men for pleasure based only on their looks. Each man was chosen particularly for his physical beauty which specifically correlated to traits of certain types of meat.” See, I LOVE using double standards to challenge double standards. Because men have been objectifying women and getting away with it for SO long, for a woman to come along and do it isn’t sexism, it’s getting even. One of my themes is ‘Emancipation via Emasculation’ which I will properly expand on sooner or later. But yes, it’s ‘post-feminist’ (not my words) now because it’s a fairly new concept, after a while I figure everyone will get used it and call ME the sexist pig. I’m not! I’m just getting even on behalf of women everywhere treated like meat…

Jasiminne Yip; champion and defender of women, or ball-crushing man-hater bent on male humiliation? Neither, I just find the point above interesting enough to explore. 

They seem to find it interesting too.

My lovely friends who surprised me ♥ The surprise is on them, the free wine ran out just after they arrived. 

The quality of most of the work was incredible. The attention to detail from gigantic 6 foot square paintings to miniscule sculpture, the craftmanship whether displayed with the most delicate dots or roughest of strokes, the sheer originality…I felt somewhat amateurish, gratuitous even with my eye-candy portraits. Here are some of my favourite pieces from PAF’12. I’m not going to caption the names of the work or the artists’ names—if something catches your fancy and you want to find out more by all means get your pretty self down to Chelsea Town Hall from today to this Saturday. 16th February-17th February (Thursday and Friday) 10am-6pm, 18th February (Saturday) 10am-5pm. Chelsea Town Hall, King’s Road, SW5 London. Entrance is free to the public.

Anyway, I will be in attendance throughout the length of Parallax Art Fair 2012. I intend to be there from 12pm-2pm from Thursday to Saturday, maybe a little later and a little longer on Saturday. This time come up to me and introduce yourselves, you absolute sweethearts. x

I am awfully excited for Parallax Art Fair 2012 in King’s Road next week! I will be taking up residence in a nice little spot at Chelsea Town Hall with my illustration series MEAT on display and on sale. For those of you who’ve RSVPed for the private view, see you on Wednesday the 15th. I’ll be there at the fair (that rhymes!) everyday, from 16th to18th February. See you all there. 

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J’♥dore my new notebooks! Courtesy of le marketing dept at work. Harper’s Bazaar Malaysia, n’est ce pas.  It’s so perfect… Chic, glossy black hardcover reminiscent of a Japanese lacquered box. Blank pages in an unjarring off-white with the faint paper smell I love so much. And bien sûr, c’est la Harper’s Bazaar…something about the nameplate is so sleek to me. Ah, HTF Didot, how beautiful the typeface…

Foreword/introduction by Natasha aka Le Boss aka the EIC. I heart new notebooks so much to the point that I daren’t write the first word or draw the first stroke for fear of defacing the pages. Well…that’s why I took TWO of these. One for unrestrained scribbling, the other to display and admire.

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So some of you may have by now cottoned on that I’ve been away from London for a month or so. I’ve flown away from the cold to wait out the winter in the Far East as I do each year. I’m based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, until it gets warmer—but don’t be fooled, I’m not lying under palm trees by the pool being fanned and fed grapes all day (although there have been some tropical funtimes, see here)—I’m working.

I’m pushing pixels at the art department of Harper’s Bazaar Malaysia :) Graphic design, to be exact, but Editor-In-Chief Natasha has expressed an interest in me contributing illustration work to the magazine. Mais bien sur!

And yes, in case you’re wondering, everyone at the magazine just has a fabulous time all day long, cooing ‘darling sweetie’ at each other, painting each other’s nails, draping our fabulous selves with next-season’s CHANEL while making eyes at celebrities on the shoots, and air-kissing over the top of gleaming white iMacs. Um, actually, it might be, but not so much for me. I push pixels. But I look damn good doing it.

x

Happy New Year my darlings! 

It brings me great joy to inform you that my art series MEAT will be exhibited and sold at PARALLAX ART FAIR 2012, CHELSEA TOWN HALL, from 15th February-18th February. I would be delighted if you could grace with me your attendance at the PRIVATE VIEW, 15th February, to show me some love, drink wine, and generally have a good giggle at my art. Of course you are all very welcome to take it seriously as well, and also welcome to show me support during the course of PAF2012.

You can view more details on Facebook here. Mostly all you need to know is to RSVP by 3rd February 2012 if you are attending the private view on 15th February :)

Entry is free, obvs, and hopefully so will the canapes and champagne one always wishes there is.

x

Just received an email from the lovely people over at Barlow Fine Art that they’ve selected me to pimp out  exhibit my work at Parallax Art Fair 2012. :)

PAF 2012 is from 16th February-18th February 2012 and held at (I think) Chelsea Town Hall. I’m excited, this is the first time I’ve exhibited outside of Shoreditch (apart from that fun stint on Bond Street station with Art Below)

Parallax Art Fair website here: http://barlowfinedrawings.com/parallaxaf.html

x

Marilyn Rose of We Are CAN (Collaborative Arts Network) www.wearecan.net shows some love for Bunny Ain’t No Kind Of Rider on the CAN blog. Thanks Marilyn!
http://wearecan.tumblr.com/post/11693029479/bunny-aint-no-kind-of-rider-from-the-petting

originally published at Posh, Broke, & Bored on 26 October 2010

Remember my collaboration with photographer Lauren Haslam for her fashion magazine, GUTTER? You can view it on my portfolio here. Combining my illustrations and photomanipulation with her photography, together we created a otherworldly fashion spread. There has been a trend among fashion photographers to have illustrators draw on their photos, but back in summer 2010 (ah, the age of semi-innocence) Lauren and I took it further and blended ink with pixels so seemlessly that one wonders where the photos begin or paintings end. I can’t believe it took me this long to post these Before and After shots! Here is a screenshot of all 4 spreads together, forming the narrative of an opium-intoxicated young lady whose animalistic, pagan, hyperreal hallucinations take her to a sinister but beautiful place.

All 4 spreads, a screenshot:

Spread 1.BEFORE: Lauren’s photography

AFTER: Manipulation and illustration by me

Spread 2:BEFORE

AFTER

Spread 3:BEFORE

AFTER

Spread 4:BEFORE

AFTER 

Of the many drawing styles I’ve experimented with, this one seems to capture the most imaginations! I remember back in my second year at St. Martins, two tutors—yes two, not just one!—chastised that very same drawing style.  ”It’s pretty, but then what?”—“It’s so gratituous”—“There’s too much going on” Ah, to be old and nearsighted…It’s a good thing I believe in my vision and fight for my right to be wrong, and that I never listen to anyone when they tell me that they don’t like my work.

You have to fight for your right to paint on top of photos, to have foresight with your vision, to collaborate with complete strangers and give everything you have—because you need courage to create beauty and meaning.x

originally published at Posh, Broke, & Bored on 15, 21, and 24 June 2010.

15 JUNE 2010/ TEENAGE IS THE NEW WHITE MEAT

For my next illustration, I intend to document the shift in my taste of choice of men. I don’t strictly have ‘a type’—although if he has black hair and blue eyes i’m helpless—but I used to prefer tall, broad-shouldered strapping ones. Recently I’ve noticed myself drawn to the young, baby-faced, lean, and feminine. Pretty boys! They either are teenagers, or look like teenagers! People have been making jokes “Jasiminne you can’t wait outside the school gates”, “Jasiminne you’re lucky the legal age in this country is 16”, “Jasiminne we’re going to call child protection services on you”. 
This new illustration series is a continuation of Bunny Ain’t No Kind Of Rider aka ‘Staaaay. We’ll try again in the morning.’ Each following illustration depicts beautiful young boys I’ve curated, in a similiar pose—head, shoulders and upper chest shot against bed sheets wearing animal ears best suited to their personalities, with a speech bubble summing up the whole experience. The next one I’m going to draw will be about the  19 year old gay model who reminds me of a little baby duck. Except…how do I draw duck ears? Do ducks even have ears? Perhaps I’ll depict him as a kittycat instead. Eek! A kitten! I’ve already decided what he’s going to say: ‘Sowwieee! I don’t usually have sex with GIRLS!’ * edit * I’ve got it, he’s going to be a puppy!
 But wait, there’s another kitten-like boy who fits the bill—except that he’s so sweet that I can’t bear to put him at the brunt of the teasing that will follow if I draw him! And what could he say? ‘You’re quite pretty’? Well there’s always Foal, who DID say ‘Ah yes you’re an EXCELLENT Oriental Lover! VAFFANCULO!’
Oh god this is going to be so much fun. Teenage is the new white meat. Young, lean, and tender!

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21 JUNE 2010/PETTING ZOO…

…is the title for my little illustration series about teenagers being my new white meat.My favourite thing about making art, apart from drawing it, is naming the pieces. So far I’ve come up with: Bunny Ain’t No Kind Of Rider, Puppy Don’t Like Pussy Wants Bone Instead, Smitten Love-Bitten Kitten, and Foal Being Broken Into Italian Stallion.
Jasiminne’s Petting Zoo! Lewis and I had a dream, that we would buy a large cage from Columbia Road Market and put a naked lovely lad inside. We’d feed the boy through the bars of the Boy Cage and take him out to dance on hot tin floors for our amusement. I really relish the idea of turning my new balcony into a petting zoo full of baby-faced young men, but le housemate is horrified—she wants to grow tomatoes and lettuce on the balcony instead. I’d rather just harvest pretty boys, they’re better than vegetables, you can also toss them with salad anyway.

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24 JUNE 2010/PETTING ZOO (2)

Bunny and Puppy side by side. Next, Kitten and Foal.
Earlier today—

Puppy: Yip! You’ve been naughty. My nose is not that big!

Me: Your eyes aren’t that shiny either. I exaggerate.

Puppy: Also I didn’t say ‘I don’t usually have sex with girls!’ I’d say ‘Jasiminne Yip drugged and molested me!’ 

Me: You’re lucky I didn’t GHB+viagra you, or you’d be in a cage hanging from my ceiling right now.

Puppy: Been there done that got the t-shirt.