NiA Guest speaker : Owen Griffiths at UpMarket Galleries Last Saturday (19/04/14) whilst I was away for the weekend in the land of my fathers, Newport activists NIA (Newport International Airspace) hijacked my exhibition space in order for a gentleman speaker by the name of Owen Griffiths gave a talk to 30 odd people about […]
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A Virus With Shoes I started making this ottoman several years ago, made my way halfway through it, cocked it up, moved house twice, then got back on it recently. I acquired the wood to make the box from an old library, painted it a lovely deep green, plushed out the inside with crushed velvet, […]
Giddy: An Allegory Mae’r darn hwn yn alegori o natur gylchol cyfalafiaeth mewn cymdeithas fodern yr ydym i gyd yn euog o’i gario mlaen.Yn cael ei rannu mewn acen Lerpwl – dinas gall yn hawdd cael ei galw yn ddinas mwyaf sosialaidd Prydain. I painted this triptych recently, I’d had the wood for ages and […]
Every Man Needs His Shed I paid a visit to my friend, the artist Henry Williams at his new work space in the deepest darkest valleys today. Henry is an artist who can turn his hand to pretty much anything of an arty nature and has been by turns a traditional sign painter, roadie, teacher, […]
Book Review: Sign Painters by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon Levine, F. Macon, S (2013). Sign Painters. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. This book may never have happened if truth be told. We only have to look around our immediate environment, anywhere in the western world, to see the wash of tawdry vinyl signs that ruin […]