Entries Tagged as 'art'

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Cut and Fade Out: Juxtapoz Feature on Miss Bugs

My latest piece for Juxtapoz Magazine is a feature on London’s Miss Bugs.
It’s strange because although I really like them as people, I know they’re capable of better work than what’s being produced. I wish they’d shake the fear of being labeled political and actually embrace that element in their work – collage and [...]

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Life Imitates Art

This weekend, Mutate Britain asked kennardphillipps to revamp one of their more recent works Fucking Waste of Money for their Robin Hood Tax event at London’s Cordy House.
Fucking Waste of Money looks a bit like this:

They erected the picture on Thursday – the same day my erstwhile companjero, Sky News’ Niall Paterson, took these photos [...]

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Dr D: UKIP Me Hanging On

Dr D’s swipe at this year’s election campaign continues unabated. This time it’s on a billboard at the M4/A312 junction in London.
Of his latest stick ‘em up he’s said: “I never thought I could cram in a reference to WWII graffiti, a has-been chat show host and a suspect political party on one board [...]

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Silly Lazarides

Oh dear oh dear. A silly man at London’s Lazarides Gallery has just sent an email cc’ing everyone on their client list. I won’t reprint the list but suffice it to say some of the people on there have A LOT of money.
A bit of background – photographer Steve Lazarides founded LazInc many moons ago…it [...]

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

The Great COP15 Can-Can

Artists and activists will gather in the saunic sweat of Dalston’s Cafe Oto this Friday to revive “Cafe Carbon“, a musical devised by The Gluts for the COP15 demonstrations this past winter in Copenhagen.
The Gluts are Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews and Hayley Newman. Gina’s a founding member of The Raincoats, I once lay in Kaffe’s [...]

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

All Charges Dropped Against Space Hijackers

Crown Prosecution Service drops all charges against 11 Space Hijackers for impersonating police officers.
Elated. Over the moon. Downing a stiff gin to celebrate. But shaking with anger at the drama I and my friends have had to endure over the past ten months. Many of us have suffered throughout this ordeal, a farcical attempt by [...]

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Mutate Britain 09

After an enforced day off, I hauled my languid self to Ladbroke Grove to the Mutate Britain show for its private view. Knowing full well I wouldn’t get anywhere near seeing the art, I busied myself by fixing a grin on my face and calling people “darling”.
I did, however, catch up with a few old [...]

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

G20 vs 34C

Despite the fact that photographs from the first day of the G20 protests in April 2009 show me astride an armoured personnel carrier in black bra and blue boiler suit with another woman straddling me in red stockings and lipstick heels, the Crown Prosecution Service has charged me and 10 others with impersonating police officers. [...]

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Kindred Times and Future Goodbyes

A few weeks ago, I went to an abandoned shell of a building in Tel Aviv to cover a show called “Kindred Times and Future Goodbyes” for Juxtapoz Magazine.
It was put on by arguably the best artists in that town’s street art scene – Know Hope, Klone, Zero Cents, and Foma.
Know Hope put me [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Ooh. I've done "new things"….

After years of barking at cameramen and laying shopping lists of demands on tape editors (most of whom I can still only recognise by the backs of their heads), I sat a two-week shoot/edit course at the Frontline Club.
I came out with a certificate that says I know what a camera does and that computers [...]