Airbourne, oil on linen, 140cm x 99cm, 2009
Lullaby, oil on linen, 140cm x 99cm, 2009
Boundary, oil on linen, 140cm x 99cm, 2009
Reign, oil on linen, 140cm x 99cm, 2009
Passage, oil on linen, 140cm x 99cm, 2009
All photos courtesy of Ian @ Wallkandy.
A Worm in the Suburban Bud, oil and aerosol on canvas, 122cm x 107cm, 2009
Trapped By Language, oil and aerosol on canvas, 122cm x 107cm, 2009
Strange Music of the Human Sphere, oil and aerosol on canvas, 122cm x 107cm, 2009
The Power of the Ring, oil and aerosol on canvas, 122cm x 107cm, 2009
The Elusive Mechanics of Memory, oil and aerosol on canvas, 122cm x 107cm, 2009
All photos thanks to Ian @ Wallkandy. He thinks I’m always eating. He might be right.
Strange Music of the Human Sphere
Airbourne
Greetings from Sunny LA. Here are 2 preview pix for our show opening this Saturday. I’ll be back in a wee bit with some more news. Oh yeah, and thanks to Ian from Wallkandy for the pix.
New drawing just finished over the weekend, available this week at Laz. Apologies for the crap quality, need to get a professional scan so once thats sorted I’ll post it up here.
My lovely people at Lazarides have re-opened the Greek Street gallery as a shop selling all manner of arty bits and pieces – prints, books, drawings blah blah blah. The above drawing is ‘The City That I’m Claiming’, my first pencil drawing in many a year. I took the title from a classic Compton’s Most Wanted tune. I was approaching a not too nice birthday about a month ago so I revisited a lot of the hip hop i used to listen to way back when. Early midlife crisis? Maybe.
This is the video but its the clean edit. Yuck.
This one has no pictures but all the bad words. Yum.
So off we headed to the Bank of England one sunny day. Its only about 15 minutes from my studio so I thought why not. Unfortunately the police heard I was coming so they were out in full force.
These boys were photographing everybody in the crowd but the ironic thing about this protest was that the vast majority of people there were only there as spectators, myself included. Everybody had a camera, anytime some ruckus started up went the cameras click click click.
My favourite placard of the day, this guy totally stole my ‘OMG’ placard idea.
So as you can see most of my photos are fairly dull but here are some quality shots from the Guardian -
So there you have it, the official review as brought to you by Conorsaysboom. I’m not anti-capitalist and I’m possibly the worlds biggest pacifist (Dalai Lama is a thug compared to me) but the way the police treated us all yesterday made me re-think my peaceful nature. I even looked scornfully in their direction, from a safe distance.
From the estimated 4000 ‘protesters’ at The Bank of England yesterday, my survey has produced the following results. There were about 50 anarchists, 200 protesters and 3760 spectators all in attendance with camera in hand to put up on sites, blogs and flickr accounts.
But the problem with all this protesting stuff is how it polarizes people. To the police, we were all anarchists. Everyone of us, even the mother with her toddler in a buggy that they wouldn’t let out. But them again as you can see from the above pictures, the anarchists that were there gave plenty cause for concern. So I’m going to finish up this with a nice chilled optimistic tune from Timmy Thomas. And don’t worry kids, Obama reads my blog.
