Homeless Gallery

this weekend me and my friends danielle and owen participated in this rad exhibition at Shoreditch Town Hall. basically anyone could show their work, you just had to sign up and then hang & invigilate the show yourselves. it was really good, here are 3 photo's i robbed off their site of my pillar and danielle hanging (thats my sister picking up one of my cards so don't think i'm trying to be a showoff)


and here are some photo's i took. they are all pretty bad, it was a dark space and flash was nuts. the space was actually awesome though.




danielle's work:

some rat poison just chilling out;
owen's work;
this guy had a slide projector set up projecting into a frame. they were really nice;
some close-ups of my display;

a picture

was waiting til she actually got this before i put it on the net but i expect its arrived by now. here's a poster wot i drawn for my friend Kathleen. some explanation is probably needed. the Tinsley Towers, recently knocked down, represent Sheffield, where she took her degree in being awesome. the rest is because she just got her wrist broken by the police. hence the limp wrists (she ain't edge i just enjoy x-ing everyone up) and the Doom rip-off. Doom being one of the best anarcho bands to come out of the UK who put out a 7 inch called Police Bastard with that copper on the front. yep. 

photo's from the photography exhibition up tomorrow! (maybe)

an interlude

i don't want to turn this entirely into a charity shop finds blog, but other than shit i've found around the shop there isn't really anything else to put on here. i am working on a poster for a friend though so expect that within the week. but for now, back to the chazza:

found these two photos in a box of donated books.

bought this tape because it's essentially this photo (which is signed on the back) and a gold sticker on the tape that reads 'BIG TIM LANE. Comedy and Songs'. who wouldn't take the chance for 25p? its essentially a collection of your standard irish, scottish and welsh jokes (i imagine it'll move on to the queers & blacks with due time, there's already been hints) as well as masturbation and married life. not worth the money.

ripped this cover off a bin-bound book because... well LOOK AT IT. if only books still had covers like this.

talking of books, here's another gem i saved from the bin this week. i cannot wait to read it:

www.deadtreesanddye.com

countess bathory

i was going to do a zine about different people i think are interesting. gaeten dugas (or whatever his name is), simha rotem, biggie smalls, nico, pauline campbell. one of the people was Countess Bathory, a romanian (i think) countess who, allegedly, used to bathe in her maids blood in order to stay young. shes the reason the band Bathory are called bathory. no one really knows it was true but she was definitely done for murdering a bunch of her servants but because she was so high up the aristocracy all she got was like house arrest or something. anyway, her story is pretty mental, and i made this based on it. its not very good but its summer so it doesnt really matter.

biggie smalls

drew notorious b.i.g on a bit of cardboard. it's all good babay babayy

more sketchbook scans

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ALL'S WELL

here's another piece i did. using very cheap pens from the pound shop i drew the Camberwell Crest onto some reciepts from shops in the butterfly walk shopping arcade. it was then hung in a frame i bought at the charity shop next door. on the reciepts it says who served you so i wrote their names on it as well thanking them for supplying me with stuff in the 9 months i spent frequenting butterfly walk. it wasnt meant to be patronising but i think it probably comes across that way. oh well. the show was sort of all about the community and that so i guess thats where it came from. yep.

work from Best Before exhibition

here, finally, are some of the bits i did for our first year show BEST BEFORE. the show ran for 3 days at 2 shop spaces opposite a 99p Stores in butterfly walk camberwell. we based all the work we created on objects we bought from the 99p shop and used materials we bought there. i bought this manchester united poster kit, where you got the outlines and a set of paints so you could paint the players shirts etc yourself. using pound pens i instead changed the footballers into satanic amputee metal fans, skeletons, zombies, tattooed punk fans and henry the 8th.

notebook scans