Creative Events & Exhibitions
Work that created spaces for creativity, connection, and thought
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Buffalo Bill Gates – a graphic comedy exhibition Stockholm, Sweden · 2017 🇸🇪
Produced a solo exhibition for Swedish graphic designer and illustrator Kalle Mattsson, whose work sits at the intersection of graphic design and comedy. An unlikely but completely compelling combination — and proof that the best exhibitions start with a simple, sharp idea.
Team: Studio Theolin + Kalle Mattsson
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Noori: Tales of the Indus Delta for H&M Foundation and WaterAid – an outdoor exhibition in Stockholm Kungsträdgården, Stockholm, Sweden · 2016 🇸🇪
Designed, built and produced an outdoor exhibition in Kungsträdgården featuring the work of Swedish-Eritrean photographer Malin Fezehai, bringing stories from the Indus Delta to the heart of Stockholm for H&M Foundation and WaterAid. August to September 2016.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Dan Bull
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Comic Sans for Cancer for Cancer Research UK – 13 million people, 38 countries, one typeface London, UK · 2015 🇬🇧
13 million people reached. $12,000 raised. 38 countries represented. Co-curated an award-winning global poster campaign marking Comic Sans's 20th anniversary, turning one of design's most derided typefaces into a vehicle for something that actually mattered.
13 million reach. 38 countries. $12,000 raised.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Chris Flack + Renee Quigley
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Eating Sound at Truscott Arms – a dining experience where food meets music London, UK · 2017 🇬🇧
A unique dining experience co-created to explore how food and live music deepen the understanding of sound, connecting timbre, texture and taste through a carefully crafted menu, composed musical movements and immersive atmospheric design. The kind of evening that makes you realise how much of eating is actually listening.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Sam Bailey + Dan Bull + Masketeers
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Food Stories West – performances about food, family and the stories that link them InTransit Festival of Arts, London, UK · 2014
A live performance event co-produced with Piece of Cake for the InTransit Festival of Arts in West London, bringing together food vendors, performers and storytellers to explore the connections between food, family and memory. Part street food market, part cultural programme, entirely human. Team: Jenny Theolin + Soapbox & Sons + Piece of Cake
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#Bagsie – a self-portrait show on paper bags, photographed by Jonathan Knowles The Proud Archivist, London, UK · November 2014 🇬🇧
Ten illustrators and artists. One paper bag each. One brief: create a self-portrait that reveals the personality within. Curated and produced a creative collaboration between ten artists including Lizzie Mary Cullen, Murray Somerville and Tash Willcocks, photographed by Jonathan Knowles. The private view drew 200 people. Covered by Design Week and Digital Arts. Supported by GF Smith and Generation Press.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Soapbox & Sons + Jonathan Knowles + Creative Advice Network
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LOLCat: Teh Exhibishun – the world's first lolcat art exhibition The Framers Gallery, London, UK · 2013 🇬🇧
A group art show exploring the cultural impact of the LOLcat – bringing together designers, illustrators, photographers and writers to reinterpret the meme as something exquisitely crafted. Over £4,000 raised for Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. Covered by BBC, Wired, The Independent, Creative Review and more.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Soapbox & Sons
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Alien Nation: The Art of Blending In – a group show about identity and belonging in London Great Western Studios, London, UK · March 2011 🇬🇧
A month-long exhibition, art programme and music event inspired by George Mikes's 1946 book How to be an Alien. Curated and produced a group show bringing together high-profile artists, photographers, writers and musicians to explore what it feels like to arrive in London as an outsider, and the extraordinary cultural diversity that results. Covered by The Guardian.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Soapbox Events + CIA
