48 galleries, but tonight’s top three are…
6pm: Stuart Shave Modern Art: sophisticated, chic & beautiful. My favourite gallery owner in London. 23/25 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8DF. The new show is called Damned Women by Lara...
View ArticleBerlin SubCulture to London NoCulture
I’d been going on at Ernesto Leal to programme Danielle De Picciotto in his Red Gallery in London’s Shoreditch, and am super-proud he invited me to steer this panel. I knew this picture of Danielle De...
View ArticleMy bag doth protest
ATHENS: beautiful day philosophising with Vassilis Haralambidis who runs Bios – soon opening a new space, in an edgier area, continuing his natural propagation of cultural agendas. We first met when I...
View ArticleBorn FREESTYLE
HOT IN THE CITY, HOT IN THE CITY – it was, when Jason McGlade, editor and publisher of Freestyle, parked up in my mate’s gallery, RED, blogged me with this picture, and it was the beginning of a...
View ArticleThurston Moore + Burroughs + Cunnilingus
Never has the art of getting down and worshipping sounded as sexy Thurston Moore is as close to William Burroughs as I’ll ever get. Moore’s band, Sonic Youth, were borne on the back of the New York...
View ArticleBOOK LAUNCH – MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING, RED GALLERY
Shoreditch’s RED is the creative force engaging local communities through facilitation of the continuing Cultural Revolution in the heart of East London. This versatile, multi-functional space has...
View ArticleI WROTE THIS BOOK & GUARDIAN STORY: RED GALLERY
I was first approached about writing the book which became MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING in 2011. It was published in December 2014. We had a party. I escaped before dawn. RED gave away 2000 copies....
View ArticlePhilly Press – Shoreditch as a cultural model
After writing the Red Gallery book on Shoreditch last year, I was delighted to be interviewed by Andrew Mark Corkery for this three-parter comparing Shoreditch with his hometown of Fishtown, in...
View ArticleLE GUN of LE EAST, SAMUEL JOHNSON & THE SOCIETY CLUB
LE GUN are my fave collective of illustrators: their drawings and installations rip through urban horror like Hogarth on a bender with Hunter S. Thompson. Getting in early on the Christmas pop-up...
View ArticleMy bag doth protest
ATHENS: beautiful day philosophising with Vassilis Haralambidis who runs Bios – soon opening a new space, in an edgier area, continuing his natural propagation of cultural agendas. We first met when I...
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