Q: What do you get if you cross some Pirates, the CIA & The Mothership Group?
A: London’s Mothership Group, the capital’s most forward thinking bar group, the guys behind The Book Club & the Queen of Hoxton, have joined forces with the artist management platform Central Illustration Agency and Pirates to create Clerkenwell’s, and perhaps London’s, very first Pop-Up-Bar-as-Art-Installation project.
Open for three months between May and August, Pop-Up Pirates will be part late-night bar, part art-installation.
The team for this ambitious project are CIA’s fresh talent, Pirates, a collective of artists/art directors using a mixture of spraypaint, set-design, paper, film and photography.
Taking inspiration from the venue’s history, the site was an old factory building specializing in silver lithography. So this idea is all about type, be it modern and bright or traditional and sophisticated.
Expect 3D mock printing presses spewing out reams of paper, mural style painted words that shout out from key walls, imagine a walk in wardrobe of letterforms.
There will be vinyl lettering covering mirrors, blackboard paint lavatories to encourage physical conversations and including free standing cut perspex letters. Pirates have full creative control, so expect big, bright and beautiful.
There’s a 4am licence, promising some great nights.
Pop Up Pirates – Mothership Group, Central Illustration Agency and Pirates to open new pop-up bar in Clerkenwell
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The Pirates at centralillustration
