All in all it’s just another mdf sheet in the wall
The second part of the Happy Life in the Mountains exhibitions is coming up in London in September and the last couple of days Wesley and myself have been in the space we’re exhibiting in; building, painting and hiding from view the terrible damp. It’s an incredible space, in a building we’ve nicknamed the Funeral Palace, in a great location, practically neighbours with the Whitechapel gallery, and it’s going to enable a really interesting response to the Berlin exhibition. Full information coming, our opening night will be September 8th, good times.
and here’s a wee sneak peek at my book, Anchor & Drift, I’ve got coming out with Museums Press in the next few weeks……
No News Corporationanigans
I’ve been kinda busy, in the studio, in the garden, on the computer, on the dancefloor, and there will be some proper interesting things to tell you about very soon. In the meantime, lend your support to my inspiring friends Jess & Matt at Museums Press, they’re looking to open an art space/shop in Glasgow, which you’ll agree is a darn fine idea from darn fine people. Take part, help out…
Sail on the Museums seas….
You have absolutely no reason not to love Museums Press, get on it, now.
There’s a whole bunch of i’s goes into making a TEAM.
The very awesome Rosie Day & Philip Zavier Serfaty made a magazine, it’s an absolutely dreamy concoction of pictures, words, people, ideas and paper. I’ve not read it all through yet, but Jen Calleja‘s story is a blinding chunk o’writing. I have the painting I did with ALK in there, and you may recognise the front cover perhaps. Purchase options here.
The very same Rosie Day has her Camberwell show up at the moment, which is a fine fine fine display of her photographs.
(just fyi, this is the last official photograph of me with a beard.)
If you go be sure to check out the always brilliant Julia (girly middle names) Dalby Gray…
and my new favourite art, James Wright‘s ceramics…..
the cat that got the C.R.E.A.M.
I made a couple books and a print, and if you like you can have one…..I have an editions page on my website now. Go see.
trippin’ over gold
the other day in Islington I happened across the book stall guy near the Camden Head pub and picked me up £49 worth of art book glory. The chap said that a former director of the Hayward Gallery was moving out of her home round the corner and was getting rid of a load of books, which he took off her hands. If this is what she felt was unnecessary to keep in her library I can only dream of what her library contains.
oranges & sardines
Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool.
This exhibition is a testament to the persistence of the visual art object and particularly abstract painting. It is a reckoning with an abiding question: what is the necessity of a work of art? Abstract painting amplifies this question a hundredfold. What is the claim of abstract painting to our attention, to our lives? Why should it continue to persist a century after its emergence?
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