“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”...
Street Life
“Never use a big word when a little filthy one...
Taken in GRACALisbon in 2023. A comment on gentrification?...
“Don’t it turn my brown eyes blue …”...
“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.” Alexander McQueen ...
In an English politician’s world there are always detractors, and their ire is nowhere more visible – apart from the London daily newspaper’s op-ed cartoons, than on the walls and hoarding boards of the inner city streets.
Once upon a time I collected signatures of famous artists. After that, it was a fixation with Les Nabis, a movement founded by Pierre Bonnard and Jean-Édouard Vuillard, artists who could magically resolve the extremely busy backgrounds of their paintings. Then came the fascination with renaissance masters and their rendering of hands and feet, which naturally led to their shoes.
Has life gotten you in a twist? Slightly cranky? In need of some navel-gazing, a good scare or perhaps a hard drink?
19 May – 24 June 2017 LISSON GALLERY, 67 Lisson...
NÎMES, FRANCE. There is something very soap-opera-ish about travelling – those niggling unknown eventualities; like coincidences and chance meetings, language and barriers, inconveniences and crowds, irritations and line-ups, a winning resourcefulness and . . . ultimately – great art, wonderful food, and air conditioning.
What a name. Does anyone remember, in the early days...
Hollywood Horse Head Soup, a ladle full of South Beach’s crunchy Cockroach Soup, or the vague possibility of being force-fed London’s Scrap Metal Soup?
How do people deal with endings, and beginnings, and then...
“. . . you could cut off one of...
London is a city with all of the symptoms of...
After a quick rifle through my photographs, I am surprised to discover the mammoth number of images that focus on despair. They are as prolific as Japanese knotweed spreading through the walls.
There is a mighty word that has infiltrated the English language. Love it or hate it . . . it is here to stay!
“The place told me what to do.” At the end of...
Grayson’s advice to any aspiring artist? “Don’t do a brown semi-abstract landscape”. Don’t you just love Grayson Perry CBE RA, the Artist and Coordinator of this year’s Royal Academy 250th Summer Exhibition in London, and his “man-in-a-dress” persona – Claire? He gets to check ALL of the boxes on my artist aptitude questionnaire, and then some. […]
It could be word association. Or I just like the...
Pow!Wow! Hawaii 2018, an urban contemporary art festival, has again...
Somebody is running around the town of London posting platitudinal...
There is something about street art images being set behind...
I am supposed to be writing about something else today,...