Digital into Analog: Modern Collage

A series of digital collages that inspired analog paintings. Or, how to slow down.

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The Isolation

This week my painting partner, Renee Berthelette, and I mounted our first joint exhibition at First Live Studio in Brooklyn, as part of the their 30 days to Rock festival, for which we’ll be doing interviews about the work and a painting performance, in the coming two weeks. Our series of 8 paintings, connected to […]

Sonic

So I thought I’d play with the idea of collage and sound, after seeing a fantastic collage by David Michael Reyes, on instagram (see here for the post.) All in all, I think it needs to be animated somehow, but this is just the first stage, so we’ll see how it goes from here. […]

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer is having a new show in at the White Cube. Although he had a show earlier this year, there, this will be the largest of his work in London. The show, which will be called “Il Mistero delle Cattedrali” references a book by Fulcanelli, believed to be a pseudonym for a mysterious French […]

Thin Ice

Moroccan house paints, Acrylic, Charcoal and Collage on Wood. Its amazing what can happen with some powdered paint and a spray bottle in hand. The cat was scared shitless.

War Horse

Acrylic and Collage on Wood…. for more about the collaged images, and to see the original photoshoot-w War Horses‘ Jeremy Irvine see here

A splash of colour for heaven

Cy Twombly died this week and so in his memory I’m posting some of my favourite images. For those that don’t know of him he was a contemporary and friend of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenburg , also one of my absolute favourites, though sadly less well known. He beat out his own path, and […]

Dear Raymond

I stumbled across these a while ago. I’ve liked Raymond Pettibon for a while, dragged to go see a gallery full of his drawings in 2003 by a friend who was a huge Black Flag fan (his brother is Greg Ginn; he started off doing posters and album art in the hardcore scene) which looking […]

A Cunt is A Rose is A Cunt- from Juliet to Gertrude to Tracey

“A cunt is a rose is a cunt” is Emin’s reworking of the famous/notorious line from Gertrude Stein’s 1913 poem “Sacred Emily”: “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”. This was probably inspired in turn by Juliet’s comment on Romeo’s name, 300 years before Stein: “What’s in a name? – That which […]