For the Financial Times I wrote about one of my favourite paintings and how it relates to one of my favourite activities, housesitting other people’s beautiful homes. To read about the joys of house sitting, and of leaving again, click here.
For The Fence: How My Dad Poisoned Himself Making Spitting Image Puppets
For this piece for The Fence I asked my dad to cast his mind back 40-odd years to one of the many weird and chaotic occurrences of his special effects career that spanned the 1970s-2010s and was extremely (and almost exclusively) weird and chaotic. This is how he poisoned himself while making the prototypes for the original Spitting Image… CLICK HERE.
Illustration by Viz cartoonist Davie Jones.
Overheard In Art Galleries Piece For The Fence
Her Stories Art Auction
Piece about excellent initiative to auction excellent art (powered by Paddle 8 and Christies) by excellent women to raise money for vulnerable women’s charities in the UK.
https://fgrlsclub.com/2017/11/herstories-art-auciton/
Banksy: The Shakespeare Complex
Here I argue Banksy is becoming a legend (in the mythological sense of the word) with the help of other artists, while everyone from academics to grannies on Gogglebox try to unmask him. Poor old Banksy …
https://www.myartbroker.com/blog/banksy-the-shakespeare-complex/
My Piece For Flux Magazine
Piece for Flux Magazine on the figurative artist Harland Miller, represented by the White Cube, and his catalogue raisonné that is rumoured to be announced later this year:
http://www.fluxmagazine.com/artist-harland-miller/
Review of Austin Osman Spare Exhibition, the man who refused to paint Hitler
My review of the amazing exhibition at The Last Tuesday Society of Austin Osman Spare’s (one of Alan Moore’s favourite artists) work for Creators — you can sit and have a tea or alchy drink and look some of the creepiest and most beautiful artwork on the planet. They’ll charge you £20 to go see Hockney or Picasso down the road, balls to that. This guy was compared to Michelangelo Buonarroti and Dürer and it’s free x x x
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8zjk/austin-osman-spare-forgotten-occult-artist-hitler-london?
Art World vs. Algorithms: Trump’s Top Financiers in the Art World
I wrote for Creators/Vice about a website that uses algorithms to reveal Trump’s top financiers in the art world that is also a conceptual art piece by Seth Price. It’s really, really, really cool. Have a look here.
ORDINARY BRAVERY: IN LESBOS AND ATHENS, REFUGEES LIVE IN LIMBO [PHOTO ESSAY]
Bob Dylan Beaten Path Review
I’ve lost my shit for Bob Dylan. Lose yours too, go see this. It’s really good. Read here on MyArtBroker.
