Tickets: £13.85

This month's Crafty Fox Talk will cover a tricky and regularly requested topic: IP protection. Illustrator Alice Tams (Birds in Hats) has had her fair share of experience with the subject and will recount her experiences with businesses small and big thus far, sharing the many lessons she has learnt along the way. Lawyer Gavin Llewellyn (Senior Associate with Stone King and ACID Partner), who represented Alice against Sainsbury's throughout 2015, will be on hand to explain the legal intricacies of creative IP, when to act and what you can do to try and prevent it happening to you.

About Gavin:
Gavin Llewellyn is an intellectual property lawyer at Stone King LLP in London specialising in design law and brands. He is the President of the Intellectual Property Commission of the international lawyers’ association the ‘UIA’ (‘Union Internationale des Avocats’) and a Legal Affiliate of ACID (Anti Copying in Design).

About Alice:
Alice Tams is an illustrator best known for her ever expanding project 'Birds in Hats'. From her messy studio in Bermondsey she sells her illustrated stationery and giftware in shops throughout the UK, Europe & Australia, online and at events around London.

The talk will take place at Hotel Elephant's new artist's studio's and creative space on Spare St, close to Elephant & Castle station. The bar will be open for refreshments. Registration is from 6.30pm and the talks will begin at 7pm. 

Tickets: £5

Will Lunn will talk about the the realities of running an independant contemporary art gallery in London. About successes and failures, unwritten rules, trends and survival. He will discuss the pros and cons of commercial funding vs applying for funding and the increasing prominence of art fairs.

About Will Lunn

Lunn started working with a pop-up model in 2009, and co-directed his first gallery in 2011 at 22 years old. Leaving the partnership and closing the gallery in 2013 he opened Copperfield in 2014. Copperfield represents living artists from around the world and regularly attends international art fairs, placing work with museums, foundations and private collections. 

Tickets: Free - booking required

A night for new ideas, Photo Scratch is an opportunity for photographers (mainly from a documentary background) to understand how their work is perceived and gain valuable insight into how to take their work further with the benefit of other people’s outside eye. For spectators this is an opportunity to preview projects, offer feedback, and engage in conversations about photography.

The format of the night involves a group of approximately seven photographers previewing a project in an incomplete state. These photographers are selected in advanced based on informal applications. Each photographer is given a wall space to display their work in any way they see fit (rough prints, contact sheets, annotations, text, projection etc.). An invited audience of other photographers and people within the industry are then welcome to discuss the work and leave written feedback for each project. This valuable written feedback is then kept by each photographer for future reference. The night is free for all to attend, but booking is required.

The July 2016 Photo Scratch features the work of:

Caro Hutchings

Jamie Clark

Clare Hewitt

Betty Zappata

Jonathan Turner

Kevin Percival

Giovanna Del Sarto

Daniel Kallberg

(Photo credit: Celine Marchbank)