Archive for December 2018
The Influencing Machine – The Reader
Get yourself an early Christmas present and enjoy this exceptional reader which supports and develops themes of group show The Influencing Machine (nGbK, Berlin). In fact, get yourself six copies, as images from my website are wrapping the inside covers in six different ways. I’ve seen a couple of preview copies, and it looks like…
Read MoreThe Influencing Machine at nGbK, Berlin – an update
Get along to this brilliant show if you’re in Berlin… Great work, so perfectly installed – thank you to everyone at nGbK and the curatorial team of The Influencing Machine. What a belter to be involved with. neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Exhibition The Influencing Machine Saturday, 01 December 2018 — Sunday, 20 January 2019 Adress: nGbK,…
Read MoreSue Zuki & Amor LP launch at The Blue Arrow
Thanks to a Vernon tip off, I saw a great set by Sue Zuki. Listen to Boring af and more here, and be not bored. Sue was supporting Amor’s LP launch. Sinking into a Miracle had some early smooth, silky, yacht moments which were a little Beloved and a little Blue Nile. Phenomenal drumming – something…
Read MoreNewspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman)
Here’s the front page of Alex Hetherington’s Newspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman), written in response to Peter (2014). It’s not a collaboration, this is all Alex, but I wrote a bit of text and choose the images. All these images by Alex Hetherington.
Read MoreShe Was a Visitor – No.35 Project with Alex Hetherington
Thank you to everyone who came along to She Was a Visitor, the last No. 35 project by Alex Hetherington. Alex used my work and imagery as a jumping-off point, writing and designing a gorgeous text which was launched (in very limited edition) while we played around with www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com, watched Peter, nou and The Man…
Read MoreArtist Talk – Moving Mountains Art in the Environment – Millom Palladium
Thank you to Moving Mountains artist and curator Irene Rogen, Phil of the vital Signal Film and Media, Frank (not Santa), Mary (who hung out with Norman Nicholson when she was a child!) and everyone who turned out of my talk in Millom the other week. Drinks were served and badges worn.
Read MorePieces of You Are Here – Lorna Macintyre at DCA
I was lucky enough to get along to Lorna’s opening at DCA last weekend and had a tip-top lunch with some long term favs to boot – thank you Lorna, Val and all at DCA. Pieces of You Are Here is delicate, detailed and full of beautiful surprises. An emotional thing for me – which…
Read MoreMargaret Salmon at DCA
Margaret Salmon’s show at DCA is dealing with things my work has skirted around at times, but while I’ve come (ahem) at notions of love and intimacy by implying that the screen itself is both a barrier and a conduit of desire and touch, a semi-permeable membrane, a bad condom, Salmon plunges us right into…
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