This latest phase of Project Mogwai has had the longest gestation period of any of the images completed so far, principally because I was waiting for my abilities and my confidence to catch up with my ambition. The song that inspired it is a dark one that always evokes for me late night walks through [...]
December 22, 2008
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Further to my previous post about book of the decade, I’ve now found the one title that fully deserves that award: George Shaw’s I.D.S.T. Designed to look like a secondary school exercise book – complete with protective cover made from old wallpaper – the illusion that this is a genuine artefact from 1981 is further [...]
December 12, 2008
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The whole punk thing became a complete bag or arse…At the start it was all about being different, at the end it was about acting exactly as the Sun newspaper told you… like sheep, bloody sheep. – Chris Sullivan
This painting, the latest phase of Project Mogwai, is inspired as much by the song itself as [...]
December 8, 2008
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