rob pepper and aimie littler...

...are signed up to begin work at this year's festival on a 'long now' piece to be exhibited in 2011 :-)

where the wild things are...

for 2011, how about turning the hub into the bedroom of max from 'where the wild things are' [the book version]
then across the weekend we can transform it as per the book into the land where the wild things are...
we can run a load of wild-thing-themed things in there [eg monster-making stuff] and there are good potential links to be made there with literature ben's programme and film, and it fits the as-yet-unannounced festival theme really well too...

oliver east...

...again thinking of 2011 and the theme, oliver east might be a good fit.
he did the artwork for the last elbow album [seldom seen kid] and produces these little comic-book travelogues and memorials little daily journeys and stuff.

he's produced loads of volumes of his work in the 'trains are... mint!' series, and just had a show entitled 'berlin and that' [with a book to accompany it]

jon mcnaught

i just bought this beautiful little book [from nobrow press] by jon mcnaught and thought it'd fit next year's theme beautifully...