Thursday, 17 September 2009



There seems to be no stopping Helensburgh’s Brian Cairnduff and Phil Burns. Their children’s book business - An Elephant Can’t - spawned waje (wall jewellery) which has just, as we reported, had a significant sales success at the recent Homes & Interiors Exhibition at Glasgow’s SECC.

Now they’ve done it again. They’re going on the road with wajefication, the next step on their road to world domination.

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The pair have produced Junior waje, giving young people the chance to shuffle their own wall jewellery, creating different patterns with prints that are like heavy duty posters, on a specially developed textile base and with an innovative, movable adhesive that apparently leaves no trace on wall surfaces of any kind.

The 3 roadshows, all in Glasgow and running across the end of September and early October, will feature both waje and Junior waje. Catch them at:



25th - 26th September at the Merchant City Festival at Wasps Studios in King Street
26th September at the West End Art Festival at Hillhead Library in Byres Road
3rd -4th October at Wasps Open Studios at Wasps Studios in King Street

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So much about the inventiveness of Cairnduff and Burns is sit-up-and-take-notice stuff.

Children will love these already known and loved images to play with on their walls - in colours they might have chosen.

Then, while they play and while they live with the patterns they make and revise, they are developing their visual and aesthetic skills.

1 comment:

  1. It's just a normal day in the AnElephantCant workplace. Phil, of course, has the brush - I guess he is about to be creative, or at least tidy up.
    I am obviously reading something important and meaningful (that's just the kind of guy I am) which I will then translate for Phil's benefit into our all purpose Esperanto style Pan-European language, which we call Eurinal. (Sorry!)
    And despite appearances to the contrary, I am not an air-head. My head is as solid and thick as the next man's, I can assure you.
    The scene is in reality the WASPS studios, and we are preparing for last month's open day.
    I hope that your delicate female sensibilities are not too offended, but as a small struggling enterprise we can only afford one pair of trousers between us.
    For next year I think we have to get Phil a strategically placed palette.
    Hope you like it, feel free to have fun with it.

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