          Self-Portrait oil on canvas 24″ x 36″ 1987
In 1987-8 I was interviewed twice by Goldsmiths College….firstly by Mary (Post-partum)Â Kelly and Nick de Ville (Roxy Music covers) for the part-time M.A. In the second interview (in my squat/house on north-circular) I clammed up as they launched a scathing attack on Peter Fuller who had informed most of my recent work then indeed the copy of Beyond the Crisis in Art shown below was a virtual template for my work drawing on post Bomberg figurative expressionism right up to Auerbach/Kossoff. See work at link below…
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To say I was dismayed to be attacked by a graphic designer, levitra and a student whose finest work I discovered later was hanging five bin bags on a wall a la Barry Flanagan was an understatement. Fuller’s erudition was obviously beyond the ‘panel’ and off they jaunted to help launch YBAism. I still think Fuller is some kind of genius and I still think Goldsmiths was not…..
The painting above was stolen by another graphic designer some time later posing as a proto-Saatchi and that was it ..game over……
The picture below is all that remains of ten years painting in ruins in a garage in my home town.
Moral of this story? I have none …but I was right to not get drawn into their vacuous course.
I did not realise that the damage it was doing would last twenty years….in all senses…
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