The auction is over and I am happy to reveal the vinyl sleeve I created for the @secret7s exhibition in support of @warchilduk.
My sleeve was a response to the track ‘Lullaby’ by @siouxsieandthebanshees. Thank you to the person that bought this. There were over 30 bids, which is mad!
It’s been brilliant to be involved this year alongside so many talented contributors and to raise money in support of War Child’s work in conflict zones around the world.
Good fun at the Secret 7″ private view last night at Now Gallery and great to see my vinyl sleeve alongside all the brilliant contributions while trying to guess the tracks and artists.
Secret 7” takes 7 tracks from 7 musicians and presses each one 100 times onto 7” vinyl. They then invite creatives from around the world to contribute artwork for the vinyl sleeves. The visual artist and track inside are a mystery until the record is sold. All money raised will support War Child’s work in conflict zones around the world. To see all 700 sleeves and to place your bid, go to @peggy or peggy.com/secret7
The tracks…
Aurora – A different Kind of Human
Celeste – Stop This Flame
The Chemical Brothers – Skipping Like a Stone
Hozier – Swan Upon Leda
Paul McCartney – Pipes of Peaces
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Lullaby
The Specials – We Sell Hope
Contributors include Anthony Burrill, Babak Ganjei, Bob and Roberta Smith, Gregor Hildebrandt, Jamie Hewlett, Jean Jullien, Kate Gibb, Morag Myerscough, Paul Smith, Rachel Whiteread, Rob Ryan, Stanley Donwood, Tacita Dean and many more.
The auction and exhibition closes on March 17th.
I’m delighted to announce I’m joining this year’s War Child presents Secret 7″. My artwork will be exhibited at NOW Gallery in Greenwhich from March 2nd-17th alongside a stellar line up of contributors, including Anthony Burrill, Babak Ganjei, Bob and Roberta Smith, Gregor Hildebrandt, Jamie Hewlett, Jean Jullien, Kate Gibb, Morag Myerscough, Paul Smith, Rob Ryan, Stanley Donwood, Tacita Dean and many more.
Each vinyl sleeve is a unique one-off. You can bid on your favourites from March 2nd at www.peggy.com/secret7. All money raised will support War Child’s work in conflict zones around the world.
A brilliant night at the opening of the John Ruskin Prize meeting fellow shortlisted artists. Congratulations to the winners Curtis Holder and William Bacon. Thanks to the organisers at The Big Draw and to my friends who came along!
The exhibition is on until the 17th of February at The Buoy Store, Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, E14 OJW.
Mon to Fri llam – 4pm
Thursdays llam – 6pm
Weekends 10am – 4pm
Free admission
I will be showing a selection of collages from my ‘Death Landscapes III‘ series at the 6th John Ruskin Prize exhibition between the 1st and 17th of February. Organised by @thebigdraw, ‘Seeing the Unseen, Hearing the Unspoken’ takes place at the Buoy Store, Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, London, E14 0JW. This multidisciplinary art prize featuring 60+ works of sculpture, painting, photography and more.
Selected from over 4000 entries, the final shortlist of 78 pieces from 68 artists, makers and innovators have been given a “platform for the unseen to be seen and the unspoken to be heard”.
The members of The 6th John Ruskin Prize selection panel are: Narinder Sagoo MBE, Cornelia Parker CBE RA, Bob and Roberta Smith RA, Gary Hill, Dr Rachel Dickinson, Julian Stair and Jane Barnes.
Shortlisted Artists: Graham Short, Claudia Barreira, Nick Grellier, Keith Ashcroft, Fiona Hodges, Elmira Zohrehnejad, Pascal Miehe, Blythe Plenderleith, Belinda Ellis, Sally Muir, Lorsen Camps, Jared Barbick, William Bacon, Helen Restorick, Linda Hubbard, Julie Graves, Matt Lee, Abby Cocovini, Isobel Scarsbrook, Thomas Cameron, Muhammad Hossain, Olana Light, Anna Larin, Scott Kelly, Francesca Alaimo, Max Bainbridge, Alyson J Barton, Katy Shepherd, J.G.Fox, Patricia Townsend, Simone Guideri, Rhys Thorpe, Trudie Shutler, Lucy Stopford, Ruth Swain, Sally Hewett, Wyatt Carson, Kirsty Bogle, Maayan Sophia Weisstub, Alan Fortescue, Julia Polonski, David Aston, Helen Restorick, Zoja Kalinovskis, Olga Kataeva-Rochford, Eithne Healy, Frances Gynn, Emily Lucas, Blair Cahill, Lydia Adams, Donna Fleming, Duncan Cameron, Julie Barnes, Eddy Greenwood, Sally Baldwin, Antoni Kuźniarz, Caroline Burraway, Kerry Collison, Dorcas Casey, Kate McDonnell, Fiona Hodges, Pinkie Maclure, Zac Weinberg, Francesca Centioni, Chris Alton, Hanfei Dyson, Daniel Hosego, Curtis Holder, Sarah Gillespie, and Elias Mendel.
Pleased that my illustration for the first issue of Left Cultures is on the winners list for the 10th Hiiibrand international illustration awards
The second edition of Left Cultures has arrived and it includes an illustration I created for a piece titled ‘Strike Badge’ by Alison Winch.
Left Cultures delves into the left’s cultural past to discuss gems of storytelling within film, literature, music, art and poetry. Buy a copy from the Left Cultures website… https://leftcultures.com/products/issue-02
Strike Badge – A new illustration for the second edition of Left Cultures, out now.
The illustration is a response to a piece by Alison Winch about growing up in Leeds in the early 80’s and making sense of the miner’s struggle and politics through the lens of popular TV culture of the time… “memories blur with television images of police on horses, truncheons, blue suits and handbags, adverts for Persil and Domestic Toilet Cleaner, lines of miners, Newsround and He-Man”.
This second edition really is an outstanding read and I’m very happy to have contributed again to this truly brilliant publication alongside so many amazing voices. There’s a limited print run of 1500 copies. Buy one from the Left Cultures shop… https://leftcultures.com/products/issue-02
Here’s a little Sunday doodle I created for Epilepsy Action and their fantastic National Doodle Day fundraising event.
There will be an online auction of postcard-sized artworks by over 500 artists, illustrators and celebrities, taking place between 15th-17th September. Contributors include Grayson Perry, Axel Scheffler, Billy Childish, Joe Lycett, Stephen Fry and many more. I’ll definitely be placing a bid or two when the auction opens next month… https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/involved/fundraising/national-doodle-day
‘Encounters in Experimental Film’, takes place at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (@artmuseumuoft) on Wednesday July 5th from 6-8 PM.
Join the Art Museum for a screening of four films from @savac_ ‘s Monitor series that expanded MVS Studio graduate Nimisha Bhanot’s artistic practice (@nimishabhanot). Following the screening, listen to a discussion with Bhanot and Indu Vashist (@indu_geita), Executive Director at SAVAC, on the films, SAVAC’s Monitor series, and Bhanot’s research.
This event is free and all are welcome. Due to capacity limits, registration is required.
Encounters in Experimental Film brings together four films from SAVAC’s Monitor series which align with criteria Bhanot seeks in her research (largely influenced by Dr. Dina Georgis’ research on The Aesthetics of Radical Hope)—rage, joy, pain, and refusal.
Films included in the screening:
1. I Love My India (2003) by Tejal Shah from Monitor 1
2. Partition (2009) by Holly Rodricks from Monitor 6
3. Rearview Mirror (1966–2011) by the late P.Mansaram from Monitor 8
4. Shaai (Ink) (2009) by Smriti Mehra and Matt Lee from Monitor 9
Image: @smriti_mehra & @mattrdlee, Shaai (Ink) 2009 Still, single channel video, 2 minutes
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