“In my work, the pains of the past need to be appeased – or they will come back.” – Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair is one of the greatest writers alive. His books are sprawling labyrinths of verbiage, containing paragraphs so dense in detail and potential for interpretation that they could function as imploded novels in their [...]
What a great picture. Daniel Camacho is the snapper, but it stands out from the rest of his fashion work for the mood it evokes, which always brings to mind for me the song ‘Shame‘ by Low:
a long time awaited
you thought it had abated
shame of it all
the harm that it causes
pours down like a faucet
shame [...]
This is my mock-up for a cover to Mogwai’s excellent Friend of the Night, released as a single in 2006. I’m not alone in believing that this band, probably my all-time favourite band, have been very poorly served in terms of their album covers. But now we’re in the age of mp3 and none of [...]
Jenny Saville came to public attention in the famous Sensation art debacle of 1997. Alongside the conceptualist tat of Hirst, Emin and that shower here was someone who could actually fucking draw and paint and render images that had some human content.
On completing studies at the Slade School, an art collector bought her entire final [...]
Kent – the garden of England, where the white cliffs of Dover cast their symbolic two’s up at the ghosts of the Spanish Armada and the Luftwaffe. It was also the setting for The Darling Buds of May, but there’s none of that misty-eyed nostalgia (for something that never existed in the first place) is [...]
