Mucking around on the canal today, cold but warm in the rum!
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MonroER
Mucking around with Teners, know there’s been a few..but fancied having a play myself , this is an early test spray. The idea came from reading an article on counterfeits on the BBC website that during checking” Notes are also screened for graffiti and if there is any sticky tape, the machine measures the surface area to determine if the note is too old and tatty to put back into circulation” The idea of notes getting buffed is funny, made me want to leave a mark, comes as an edition of 100 at a cost £20 each 😉
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Exquisite Corpse
Unique canvas 105cm x 75cm
The work was created using photographs taken in the modified Mighty Booth
at the Royal Academy of Art on the 19th of February 2011 for the Club
Monaco UK launch.
These photographs were cut and pasted, in a manor based loosely on the
Exquisite corpse technique invented by Surrealists, at the beginning
of the 20th century. The work will be auctioned at Sotherby’s on the 22nd of March, the proceeds going to the Royal Academy of Art.
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Racking card
In these austere times none of us can afford to leave that dam Oyster card on the mirror or Cd case at whichever den of iniquity, rubbing salt into the wounds of an already expensive evening out on the tiles. 86mm x 54mm plastic cards edition of 250.
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Cans festival Poster #2
So, tidying up the studio and trying to organise the place for a hopefully imminent move, i came across a number of the old Cans Festival posters from Banksy’s Leake Street event back in 2008. So seeing as they were so popular the first time round i decided to do a second edition. Its an edition of 25 numbered signed and blind stamped and available here. Price is £150 and they are going fast even before i post this.
The crew of ‘nutters’ behind Creative Routes ‘MUSES CAFE’ events are once more teaming up with campaigning organisation MAD PRIDE to stage a special event to mark the international ‘HOLOCAUST DAY’ memorial.
In Germany in the 1930’s the Nazi’s put out propaganda ‘newsreels’ showing images of mentally ill and disabled people alongside slogans telling the taxpaying population that these ‘degenerate’ people were costing them money to keep alive as a justification for the ‘final solution’ of exterminating them in the concentration camps.
MAD PRIDE are asking the question ‘how far does this differ from the current government and media propaganda which aims to label all welfare benefit recipients as ‘scroungers’?’
Vulnerable people at the bottom of the social ladder are once again being made to be the scapegoat for the bankers and capitalists reckless mishandling of the economy.
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Don’t drink the koolaid
One more left to go in the “Dont drink the Koolaid” triptych.
Two Polaroid style canvases 65cm x 75cm. The third in production.
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Capture at last!
At Last, its taken months, but the capture series is finished. Nine 40x 40 cm canvases that depict cultural cctv moments from a London centric perspective. “The CCTV camera is the perfect icon for Britain today, summing up the nature of the changing relationship between civil society and political state. They are an innovation in which Britain leads the world both technologically and in usage and are the visible manifestation of so many things which happen out of sight. It is almost impossible to avoid their gaze for an entire day and sitting like steel crows on their perches above us, truly they are emblematic of modern Britain.” Perry de Havilland
Depicted top left to top right are:
Securitas raid Heathrow
Last footage of Lady Diana and Dodi Fayeed
The stabbing of Derek Spaulding
Mid left to right:
7/7 bus bomb
The shooting of Jean Charles Menezes
Ian Tomlinson
Bottom left to right:
Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud beating Bandar Abdulaziz
Brinks Mat raid
Last footage of Jill Dando
You may of seen the posters, Tee shirts, placards or the shutters on Curtain Road. Well here’s the silkscreen print. Designed for Mad Pride’s current campaign against the benefit cuts, this is a two colour hand pulled silk screen in an edition of 50 measuring 57cm x 38cm on 300gsm somerset antique white.
25 of the edition of 50 are available from me here at the price of £30 each, all proceeds going to Mad Pride
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Show time
So it was a mad 24 dash to get the thing together but 6 of the 9 of the ‘Capture’ series went on show at the Black Rat Press gallery in Rivington Street last night. A series of stencil painted canveses depicting famous cctv footage. A decision to make a more interactive element at the last minute, resulted in manic midnight carpentry, thanks shaun. The final 3 of the series will appear over the course of the show, shambolic i know, but its been hectic and blah blah blah.
It was a busy night a big thank you to all who came! A special thank you to Fatty and his Viking longboat.
More photos of the works can be found here