This week I am sending some zines down to London for the Tooting Zine Fair taking place at the Construction Gallery .
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Just completed a short 8 page b/w zine on Leigh Bowery for a mail art project.
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Bowery’s work resonates for me as through out the 1990′s I was heavily involved in London’s club funk and jazz scenes and undertook several projects for club nights at venues like Shuffles, the Circa and showed work at Madam Jojos.
I have been laid up with a bug for the past 2 weeks so treated myself watching some DVDs:
And a fantastic free online documentary about performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery. Well worth watching *some might find that his work disturbing*. This was the work that resonated most and I wonder if it is because Leigh sadly died before his work became a commodity.
Finally a last link for Life Remote Control by MBW/T. Guetta featured in Exit Through The Gift Shop.
This evening is Empty Shop’s 4th Annual Opening
The show this year is cracking and includes a site specific installation by Neil Armstrong.
I am showing some of the zines I have made over the last year or so and a work in progress, The Normal Child that I have been working on for the past couple of months.
The Normal Child (work in progress) 2012
This photograph was taken towards the end of 2011 from the studio window.
This April I will be at the Glasgow Artists International Book Fair 2012 . I showed there in 2010 and am very much looking forward to taking part again in this years event.
In December I moved into a new studio space at Empty Shop HQ Durham.
It’s a slightly larger more self-contained work space over looking the Fighting Cocks Pub in one direction and Durham cathedral in the other.
Photos from Empty Shop today …
Here is the pdf version of December 2011. It’s now A5 size (printer ink has become mega expensive).
