3 paintings/drawings featured last month in Tape Club Gallery’s Tape Modern #21: ‘Nouveau Art Nouveau’ exhibition in Berlin. Hugely successful crazy opening, thanks to everyone who came down…More information on Art News Deutschland Deutschland
Feature interview with Feral Army: http://www.feralarmy.com/viewarticle.aspx?ID=229 + New painting…puzzle…
New feature & very in-depth interview (“…on the joys of living in Berlin, the importance of observational drawing practice and the core of her feverish work.”) in Jotta Contemporary. Vielen Dank an sie! The past few weeks have been patched together by adventuring into a slight “abstraction” of the figure, forming potentially the most exciting [...]
Another whirlwind weekend back in London and I have a lot of thanks to give, namely to the Enterprise Centre of the Creative Arts, University of the Arts London and Candid Arts Centre. And of course everyone who came down to the talk at Camberwell College of Arts on the 16th. As it transpires, I’ve [...]
The site is finally starting to take real shape and soon I will be updating more regularly. Have a look at my shiny new expandable thumbnails in ‘Works’. And also, of course, the work is taking a new direction. Through limiting my use of colour to about 5 tubes, I’ve developed a different and more [...]
A beautifully shot short film by Marc Holtbecker & Lukas F. Hartmann for einsfestival (as televised alternative to advertising). Filmed in my studio in Berlin. The source material was provided, so an added challenge – the figure is not particularly representative of my work’s current path but is a comprehensive expose of the process of [...]
The Watermans event on Hounslow high street was a joy. The official turnout was over 8,000. Thank you for the dropped jaws. I’m gratified to have hoisted you from your daily routines, and distracted you from your shopping. Here are a couple of the clippings/links. Photographs and films soon… 8,000 see Elizabeth Hepworth paint Live [...]
The interview today will be on the 91.8 Hayes FM drivetime show with Angela Kanwar, at 6:00pm.
This coming Saturday 24th July I will be painting the public on Hounslow High Street in London across two giant surfaces for four hours from 12-4pm. There will be, of course, be loud sweet music (punk, ska, reggae, electro, trash, rock n roll – the good stuff). I want to push together action painting and figurative drawing for [...]
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