Thinking whilst making things – a challenge – beyond the crisis in art
I have long been a fan of the Sharkforum and resident artist/critic Mark Staff Brandl’s take on the present state of art criticism. This is by way of a practice …
Academic Artist? Oxymoron?
There was a time when the phrase ‘academic artist’ was synomonous with a certain conservatism and use of traditional strophes that reflected the academic virtues of fine handling of paint, …
Is traditional publishing dead? Next Wave..
This a response to some interesting issues raised by a CNET video on future of the book. Basically the incoming changes are going to revolutionise the whole concept in a …
Nottingham Contemporary the good, the bad and the ugly
I have recently had to pull a discussion post from the Nottingham Contemporary Free discussion group on facebook. Here I explain why and deliver a more considered version of basically …
Free as a bird?
Today I finished adding my entire catalogue to this website. Through an industrious mix and mash of elements from wordpress, viagra ning and twitter I have a fully functional always …
Moon over the Downs revisited
This wonderful set of renditions of my lyrics came out in 2003 and pretty quickly sank in the quicksands of the music ‘bizness’. All the artists volunteered their tracks by …
Tools for thinking about the contemporary art world
Following a very interesting post by Rob Van Beek in the Nottingham Contemporary Free Discussion Group on Facebook I replied to the following which was last paragraph in a much …
Damien Hirst – the Emperors New Clothes fall away….finally
Fake artists, patient fake academics..a sad low, buy dishonest decade (to paraphrase Auden) of infantile, greedy pseudo intellectuals… and here the best of them all…greedy bankers, brit artists, mps expenses….spot …
Juvenal: Bread and Circuses
For a long time I have been known for the acerbic (sour or bitter tasting) nature of my cartoons attacking the poor denizens of the contemporary art world or I.A.W. …
Part the first: In which our hero awakens in a distant land…
Each drip off the corrugated plastic sheeting made a tinny sound that he could hear from deep within the damp sleeping bag and layers of blankets where he was trying …