New Prints!!!!

He had no known enemies

Lilly, Brendan's dog

      Seriously.. I will never look at another print the same way again.

claire orange pots

The fabulous Claire Orange..

Made from found materials in her immediate location as a kind of tribute to the land, these experimental forms are produced using a variety of materials. Mostly she combines glass, clay, soil and stone as well as other natural materials to create unpredictable textures and colours. In her usual stubborn manner, Claire refuses to accept that the combination of materials may not work together. And although this may result in failure, it also serves up an accidental harmony in the work which i think is full of character but also vulnerability. 

Brilliant! James Unsworth...

jamesunsworth.blogspot.com

James' work is about not looking. You know you probably shouldn't look at a decapitated head or a severed limb; you shouldn't want to see teenage mutant ninja turtles having sex, but that fact that you shouldn't is what makes it so compelling. There's an overwhelming need to look, recoil, cringe and then look again. I started to question myself, 'is it a problem that i find the grotesqueness in James' work so hilarious? More than anything, i love the fact that some people will be horrified by the masses of erect penises. FFFFFFantastic work.


Can we have more visiting artists like James Please?

New show! (Post) Scarcity

Hey Guys...

I'm showing a new print in a group exhibition tomorrow

Curtis Mayfield House (Top floor of World HQ)

Carliol Square , NE1 6UQ

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

For more details of everyone else who's involved check out this link. Hope you can make it!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186929558008842&notif_t=event_invite

I WANT ONE!!

For me, without doubt, the best work i saw this weekend, was that of Claire Loder.







I saw Claire's work at The Royal College in London, a show case of new contemporary Ceramics...presented by the CPA (Craft Potters Association). There was all sorts of fantasitc stuff. Details can be found at  http://www.ceramics.org.uk/home.php



claireloder@blogspot.com claireloder.co.uk

Discovering Alan Measles for the very first time.

ha ha ha ha ha ha... Here are 20 reasons, why you all should read Alan Measles' blog!!!!.... (AM New years resolutions- Alan Measles aka Grayson Perry)

1.I resolve not to make any more bad art and clutter up friend’s back bedrooms.
2.I resolve to give up watching shit telly with a supposedly ironic attitude, I will just come clean to myself and admit I like shit telly.

3.I will be lazy and not wear all black outfits unless I am going to a funeral.

4.I will not end up going to Ikea.
5.I will go on a personal pilgrimage to somewhere I have always wanted to go. I must only go on foot or by bicycle. It can be a day trip.
6.I will not say ‘stunning’ when describing something beautiful, only when I get hit round the head.
7.I will get rid of most of my books as I am only hanging onto them to show off how well read I am and I am clinging onto the belief that books are a ‘good thing’, also in case I ever need a backdrop when being interviewed for a TV arts programme.
8.I will kind to my neighbours and not have any work done on my house for a whole year.
9.I will avoid long periods in West London, if I hang around there too long I may go native and end up having a ‘perfect life’.
10.I will give all my friends marks out of ten and dump those who score less than five then I can make some new better friends!
11.I will tell people when their name-dropping anecdotes are boring me/ they are standing too close in my personal space/ that no, actually I don’t like their child/pet/favourite film. This may work as a substitute for number 10.
12.I will not read, watch or listen to any interviews with actors.
13.I will not buy any products or go on any holidays described as ‘extreme’.
14.I will pick up some litter every day.
15.I will treat all my favourite friends to a special day out (inviting them to your wedding so does not count)
16.I will not read self help books.
17.I will dress up in a way that hopefully will attract sexual partners at least once a week.
18.I will rip up the paving covering my front garden and plant flowers.
19.I will commission something to be especially made for me.
20.I will join a cult that worships a 50 year old teddy bear (gotcha!)8:->

Establish base camp in major national museum from where I can recruit an army of doubters.
Get my man Grayson a major telly series so he can promote the cause of Alan.
Get myself a new set of clobber, my old boiler suit is beginning to seriously unravel.

Sort out my VAT.
Watch this space

http://alanmeasles.posterous.com/netiquette