Dead Meat, Lazarides Gallery March 2nd – April 12th 2012

The 3 Wise Men (detail), oil, aerosol and gold leaf on linen, 2012 (photo Ian Cox)

Black Herds of the Rain

Last summer I went home to Ireland with filmmaker Andrew Telling to make our second film together since we went to the Middle East to make Crossing Lines.

The cowboy mentality is common in Ireland. It might be because we’re on the Wild West of Europe, I’m not sure really, but we also have a strange fascination with American Country and Western music. It would also appear that our politicians and bankers were in cahoots with each other, got carried away at the party of a lifetime during the Celtic Tiger years and rode the country to near ruin (of course the people of Ireland were at the party too but I’ll leave them out of it). This film is dedicated to them.

Dead Meat / The Last Supper

Here’s a super quick-ass piece I did on Sunday. By far the quickest piece I’ve ever done, infact if I was organized enough I could do one of these on my lunchbreak everyday. But I’m far too much of a hungry man to waste valuable eating time. The piece is part of an exciting film project I’m involved in, and its also an image from my upcoming show at Lazarides in March. More details soon.

Stephen Lawrence

Haven’t heard this tune in years but searched it out a few minutes ago after hearing the verdict in the Stephen Lawrence case. I can’t remember how much the story made it through to my 13 year old self at the time of the murder but this track by Life MC from Phi Life Cypher certainly did when I bought it on vinyl a few years later.

Underbelly Paris – Le Film

Here’s the video of our Parisian escapades, beautifully captured by Marine Longuet.

Thursday Morning Glory

Monday Morning Glory

Underbelly Paris, oui oui oui.

This is my piece from a wee top-secret baguette-fuelled ninja mission I was on a couple of months back. Big up to the organizers of the project, I don’t know who they are but they live in the shadows and under bridges and exist on covert banditry alone. Brooklyn Street Art have the full article.

I would go on and on about how cool it was to meet everyone, Saber, Futura and Martha Cooper in particular but that would sound boring and lick-assy. All I’ll say is that it was the 2nd best painting session I’ve ever been on. The best of course, being my premier mission in September 1994, nothing’s going to top your first time but this came close

Decline of the West

A quick piece this morning. Nice and drippy, fading glory of former empires.

ARAF

The latest film from my boy Andy Telling in collaboration with Owen Richards, following photographer Robin Friend deep into a Welsh mine. Highly recommended.