From this week until the 31st I have a drawing in the Swiss Cottage Gallery (88 Avenue Road, Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3HA)

June saw 3 works in IKAS art, Bilbao Exhibition Centre, Baracaldo, Spain (also published in IKAS 2010 book). I have never exhibited photography in a group show before so slightly exotic move, I wish I could have made it over. Looked to be a great show.

I’m still showing in the Lunasol Gallery in Berlin’s Kunsthaus Tacheles, but it’s going to be completely shaken up with new work when I return to Berlin in a week.

The UdK Rundgang 2010. I was showing in Raum 146 with artists Thibault Bourgoing & Marc Siebenhüner (special boys!)

Ours was one of the least ‘decorated’ rooms; lacking strobe lighting, music, a bar. We just cleaned the room and hung our paintings, a surprisingly unconventional approach. The reason rooms are cleared beforehand is surely to avoid distraction of attention to the art, so to add sensory clutter like disco balls and DJs (without connection to the work but in the same space) feels like a step backwards. If the props attracted, I question how many of them just wanted a drink, and if the distractions for some where just a product of confusion or insecurity. Surely, the art should speak for itself. To put it another way, I would rather have few people who want to experience painting than a crowd who want to buy beers and leave. The turnout, incidentally, was sensational. Berlin you never cease to amaze

My work chosen by Rundgang curators are below: ‘My blood knows the way from my heart to my brain’ (x2) and ‘Ohne Titel’.