Tomorrow is the private view for an exhibition I am showing some work in. It's a follow up to the very successful East Pop West that opened September 30 in West London. It's a Red Gallery, 3 Rivington in Shoreditch. 6-8 pm. Come say hi.
Artists showing are Josephine Chime, Daniel Junsei, Alexis Milne, Christina Mitrentse and Jonas Ranson, Leo Cohen, Laura Oldfield Ford, Adam McLavery, Dean Brannagan, Oliver David, Aimee Neat,Sydney Southam, Esther Ainsworth.
Oh ya, and I am getting surgery on my nose (remember how I broke it?) ON WEDNESDAY so you can come wish me luck!
I am showing my film Ice Cream at a late night Art exhibition at the Rio, an awesome art deco theatre in Dalston, London. It's on October 1 from 11:30 until 3 am, and the lineup is looking pretty fun, what with all the crazy filmmakers and performance artists getting involved. It's going to be wicked! So get your asses down there next saturday to look at some art and party with meeeeee!!!!
One of my films was published on a curated video and performance art blog. Check it out yes please by clicking that link you see right there. You might have to scroll down, they update often. They published it on my birthday, August 29, same birthday as Michael Jackson.
I have a film screening at New Gallery in Peckham. The private view is tomorrow. My film screens on Tuesday. Should be a good good time with lots of good good art.
Tomorrow is the beginning of the annual Hackney Wicked Art Festival, which is pretty much a mad excuse for all the whacked out arty people in and around Hackney to make a bunch of weird shit and get wasted all weekend. It's good fun. I am in an exhibition with a group of great young artists in a pop-up gallery in an abandoned shop. It's well good. The private view starts at 6 and the show runs until sunday. Come!
KWICKLOVE
Summer Exhibition
Hackney Wicked Art Festival 2011
29 July - 31 July 2011
Opening Friday 29 July 6 to 8 PM
LEO COHEN ALISON THOMSON
LUKE BRENNAN BABETTE SEMMER
LUCIA RIVERO PATRICIA DELGADO
DAVE CHALKLEY ANNA LOUISE HALE
JONNY MORGAN SYDNEY SOUTHAM
JAMES BOMAN HARUKA HASHIGACHI
DAVID JONES HENRY MACKAY-BULL
BEN NATHAN BEN WESTLEY CLARKE
Osama bin Laden's death has given every racist SOB a chance to protest thoughtlessly and breed hatred in this country and around the world, and given religious fanatics a new fire in their belly.
A month ago, Caisa had a birthday. We sat in London Fields and drank Cava and ate brownies and it was lovely. So are Caisa's purple tights.
I left the party early attend The Secret Cinema with Charles. The theme was Arabian Tribal, and the film we saw was, unsurprisingly, Lawrence of Arabia. As you can see, the organizers went all out to make the experience as authentic as possible. Good fun, but I wish I had brought some extra cushions. The floor gets mighty uncomfortable after a few hours of lounging.
Check the website to find out about the next Secret Cinema. It is pretty cool, if you are in to dressing up and watching films and all that jazz.
A while back I entered a film competition sponsored by Kopparberg Cider and Vice Magazine. It was called the Kopparberg Klash. And I totally won.
Here is my winning film.
The night was super fun, and my friends actually came! Yay Nick, Charlotte, Katia, Francesca, Helene, Alix, Tom Tom, Elly, Mikey, Joel, Zoe, Dan and Leo. Winning something is just so much more exciting with your loved ones around. That said, I was more relieved to not disappoint the people who had made the effort to support me than excited.
photos by Paul Bence and Alessandro Bergonzoni
Click HERE to check out more photos from the night.
Winning something is always fun, especially when the prizes are money, exposure and a job.
To further my obsession with my mother, here are the first three parts of an amazingly bad and amazingly awesome movie she was in called Shadow of the Hawk. She is the hot blond babe by the pool in part 1, and she is in the party scene at the end of part 2 and beginning of part 3. After that she isn't in the movie, so I never bother watching parts 4-10. But don't let me stop you from doing so. And just in case anyone reading this lives in Vancouver, she is currently acting in a play at the Arts Club until June 6. Check it!
I love the Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington. In fact, the love I feel may be bordering on obsession. The other week on Guy Fawkes Day, a friend and I broke in to the abandoned chapel, whereupon we made a rather large bonfire which I then filmed on a 16 mm camera. Besides the mess of ash, we also left behind an empty wine bottle, a full water bottle, and various exploded fireworks and lighters. I returned to the church a few days later to film some more, only to discover a message left for us. Someone had typed the words "COME CLEAN" on thirteen pieces of paper, which they then displayed with various rocks and debris, including the bottles and lighters we had left behind. Spooky, eh?
Some fellow students of mine from Central Saint Martins and other universities are putting on an art show that opens on Thursday October 15 at East Gallery on Brick Lane. Check out the blog about the show and the facebook event and then come and look at art while you drink wine and say hi to your friends. See you there, lovelies.
My mother was an actress in the seventies. An actress, and a total babe. She had a supporting role in this awesomely bad cult film called Shadow of the Hawk, and due to the miracle of youtube, I was able to find the trailer. Mummy is the babe in the white bikini kissing and screaming poolside. Check it out, it is so worth it.
