GRAFFIK GALLERY PARTY...

Well the gathering Graffik tonight was good, lots of work traded and good people talking, painting tales swapped and such, more up later... and not an Art Bin to be seen...

More later: Here comes the more later bit... Well actually there's a great big review type piece of the evening (and Michael Landry's Art Bin) and such to be found on the Organ magazine art pages over at Organart.com, no need to repeat that here (no Organgrinding right? just hit the link, you'll find lots of words, photos and more, the Orangrinding never stops).

So the Graffik gathering (over at the Graffik gallery in Portobello Road, West London) was good, took down some cardboard pieces, left them on the side and watched people pick them up, seven or eight of the cardboard pieces... And then along came Benny from Grange Hill with some of his work, he's a little older now and his real name is Terry and that's his Yellow Gilbert And George celebration there. Seems Terry picked up one of the recycled 12" vinyl pieces and one of the Estate Agent board pieces, they they are in his hand there... Good gathering of art-makers, art-enthusiasts and... the review and everything is over there at Organart.com

CREATE AND SURVIVE #1 - THE THOUSANDS

The THOUSANDS exhibition happened in London last November, at the Village underground. An important show, bringing some of the best pieces of street art in to a more formal gallery environment and presenting it on the 'mainstream' established art world's terms, a show that challenged the way 'street art' was treated by the art mainstream...

Lots of bottles of Brew Dog IPA Punk was drunk at the opening night (bottle labels did not go to waste) and we took some Resonance FM recording equipment down there to make a radio documentary (yes I know, this is more Organgrinding and I said I wouldn't Organgrind here, that is the painting I did after the opening when I got home though so this is about my art making as well as a bit of Organgrinding, confused girl behind the bar helped pull of the labels. Quite a big piece on the side of a found cardboard box - 60cm x 50cm, collage, acrylic paint, spray paint, gouache and a late night, well we didn't get back from the opening preview until the early hours...)

SO anyway, point here is to tell you we started making a series of visual art documentaries for our favourite radio station, Resonance 104.4FM - hear it on FM in London, or on-line worldwide via www.resonancefm.com - the series is called CREATE AND SURVIVE and the first of these broadcasts will run on FEB 11th at 8pm - an interview with Michael 'RJ' Rushmore of Vandalog, for it was he who put together the Rather excellent Thousands show...

The second CREATE AND SURVIVE show will be made tonight at a rather good rather new street art gallery in Ladbrook Grove, West London, called GRAFFIK (that sells some of my work by the way). Small gallery (that once, back in the late 80's/early 90's was the Planet Alice shop and sold early handmade copies of Organ alongside psychedelic clothing, the copies of IT, Ozric Tentacles tapes, Fat Freddie's Cat comics and the early ORG release when our record label was a DIY cassette tape label).

Anyway, GRAFFIK, great little street art gallery come shop in Portobello Road and tonight they're having a gathering of artists and such, a few DJS and a bring your own bottle and some new art situation... We shall bring along our interview machine and make CREATE AND SURVIVE number 2.

Now what about number 3? Any ideas? An ongoing series on audio documentaries about visual art and people getting out and doing things... come join in...

Right, let me go make some coffee, I was up until 5.00am this morning, painting this mechanical bird on to canvas...

A little bit of Organgrinding then...

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So a bit of Organgrinding to do before the paint comes out with the Tuesday morning sun... Time to get some more new work together before the Graffix gathering on Thursday. More vinyl, Gog Magog seven inchers to convert, isn't there a couple of dozen Dream City Film Club blue vinyl seven inchers around here?

RECYCLE...

Photos of a whole load of new pieces of work up on the website, leaves and marks on cardboard box lids and flaps - recycling, picking boxes up off the street, putting them back out on the street... Recycled wild art

12" VINYL

recycle and create, we once had a record label, we have some stock left over... wonder if I can paint on it? Ah yes I can... 1995 Poloroid 12" single recycled...

the flood... one of those days

the great Organ office flood, big pile of old painting and drawing mush and old copies of Organ - the hand made hand screen printed ones from the last century (and weaving woven together and all kinds of things lost...) Guess we needed a clear out....


That one there intentionally looks like that, resist dying and screen printing on hand dyed fabric. Taking walls, graffiti marks and old concert posters, it dates from 1987... Lot of more recent stuff looking like that now though...One big pile of mush to dry out and maybe turn in to collage or probably just heave towards the recycle bin... been one of those days/weeks....

Part two of the ongoing 1p painting experiment

Part two of the ongoing 1p on-line painting experiment. Part one has now been sold via Ebay and will be on the way to Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Part two is one of the Yorkie Bar box spray can paintings. On line at E.bay, opening bid price of 1p once again, and once again up there to be viewed and bid on for seven days. Let's see if more people have a look this week, a virtual snowball as it were...

Already left one of these Yorkie paintings and had feedback, so it has a home... The word is 'create'

THE ONGOING ADVENTURES OF PIECES LEFT TO BE FOUND...

Seems one of the latest 'recycled' pieces, left down at the Southbank, just inside the door of the Royal Festival Hall a week last Sunday, in all that snow and rain, is now in the production office of the National Theatre (I leave contact details on the back and ask people to let me know where the pieces have got to). Seems someone picked it up and took it in that evening and a college who had been looking at it for a week, and has now claimed it as her own, made contact last night, said hello and asked if there were anymore anywhere, wanted to buy some 9not sure if that's how it works though?). Didn't have time to leave one on the Southbank this week, running late, but do keep an eye out today, and maybe next Sunday down by the river. The one left on Ebay last Tuesday hasn't been found yet, but as someone pointed out, how will anyone find that? Another one up tomorrow? Will people eventually find them?

That one there was done at the exact point of the Winter Solstice... 5.47pm. Last night I painted several pieces of old ORG vinyl, nothing ever goes to waste here, old records that didn't sell, pieces of cardboard the corner shop throws out, old tea boxes.... Found another large unfinished canvas waiting to be collected by the binmen/women just before Christmas, the third big canvas in recent times.. all now painted over like they were unloved walls wainting for a can of green spray paint or something...

HYSTERICAL WOMEN

That painting there is called Trillian. The Trillian is the Captain's Table and the taking back of old walls, new leaves, fresh marks, old surfaces, always growing, new marks over old marks, new layers, new leaves, fresh leaves, new growth over old, new paint over old, new leaves, the covering up, the taking back by that green growth

New graffiti, Kensal Green, grown over, new leaves growing under, new marks on old marks, rain marks, rain drops, new leaves over old leaves, new graff marks obscuring old marks, green shoots, blue spray paint, red shoes, green rain, Montana Gold, To Her....

New leaves, fresh graffiti over old graffiti, fresh leaves over old leaves, cardboard boxes, old beat boxes – ever evolving, there today, covered tomorrow - old walls growing, new leaves, fresh layers, hiding the old, revealing the new -

New leaves, revealing the old, evolving, regenerating, the taking back, plant life, street art, plants as street art, plant shape as pop art, organic graffiti, found things painted on, grown on, green shoots taking back

Well the London Art Fair looks like a little bit of an enormodome cattle market, some good work in there. Menawhile, like the energy of these Hysterical Women

WALLS OF AUTHORITY - Hysterical Women say they are pleased to present the exhibition “Walls of Authority”. An exhibition, at the Old Police Station, Deptford, South London (running from Saturday 16th to Saturday 23rd of January)showing in total 25 artists from different backgrounds and countries, working with mediums that range from painting to photography, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, printing, performance, video, animation and multimedia. As the Old Police Station has been cleared of violence and submission to power, we will exorcise the building from its past and celebrate its birth with a new creative identity. Hysterical Women is a newly formed female art group who aims to create thought-provoking exhibitions, where stunning artworks create a remarkable experience. To find out more head over to www.hystericalwomen.com - all looks rather stimulatingly intriguing, more here next week

And then there's the CROW CROW COLLECTIVE, looks intersting so far, early days, mailart is fun...

THE WEEKLY 1p PAINTING...

The weeky 1p painting, number one. One a week, up on ebay, opening bid of 1p, just to see. One piece a week until further notice. Go view the sale here on ebay, bid if you wish, watch if you wish, if it goes for penny all well and good.

This first one is a one-off mixed media piece on cardboard, 25cm x 38cm, who knows what next week's will be, one will go up every week at least until the end March, what's that? About 15 pieces? 15p?

HAND PAINTED SHIRT HORRORS and "CREATE" is the word

I just had a flashback the early 90's and very stupid idea I once has that involved selling Atom Seed t-shirts (long lost English rock band of the early 90's who were happening news for a couple of years) with just white prints on a black t-shirt on them and then selling sets of fabric paint with them to get people creating a bit rather than just consuming. "Create" was always the word with Organ and Organart you see... There was some awfully bad attempts, really badly hand painted shirts with Organart logos on them, i would cringe every time i saw one hoping people wouldn't think it was me who had painted them that badly! And talking of Atom Seed artwork i forgot to tell anyone that if they took their Atom Seed 12" Rebel single and put it next to their Get in Line vinyl album that paintings on the front joined up, in fact whichever side of the album you put the 12" single, it worked as a repeat (the textile designer in me see)... You can see on the covers and how they fit together on the website, i forgot all about it until I put some of the covers on the website last week, must photoshop them all together as one piece. Some of those shirts were painted rather well, not many though, and I must admit I always got a kick out of seeing my Atom Seed art copied and painted on the back of people's jackets or made in to tattoos and such...

Cold out there today, spray painting on canvas and fingers seizing up. Got an e.mail today from someone who found one of the recent cardboard paintings, seems it is all framed and on a wall now... found on a train going North out of Euston, I never left anything on a train, i figure train cleaners will destroy them straight away. No word on the one left this weekend in the Royal Festival Hall down on the very cold southbank where the graff artists are also noticing the cold. That's not my work there, that someone else "buzzing" at -6 degrees, my paint all hits canvas or cardboard the days, can't spare the paint for walls

BREW DOG, THOUSANDS, RESONANCE FM, DRAWING ON TUBE TRAINS, LEAVING PAINTINGS, SNOW, ICE...

That piece down there with the first blog entry here on No Organgrinding is a piece on cardboard, it was left inside the Thousands show at the Village Underground in London (where lots of Brew Dog Punk IPA was flowing at the opening). Wonder if anyone found it? That Brew Dog piece (at the top of this blog entry), one of many made from the labels of Brew Dog bottles emptied (and thrown in the recycle bin and rescued by me, can't waste those labels) at The Thousands opening night, was left in a cafe in NottingHill last week, today's painting to be left is this Yorkie Bar piece done in December last year... For today we have to go out in the ice and snow and get to London Bridge via the Southbank (and the broken tube system) for our regular Sunday night appointment at Resonance 104.4FM. We have a music show on Sundays - but that is Organgrinding and I don't do any Organgrinding here. We are busy make a number of radio documentary pieces right now though, called Create And Survive, first of which with be an interview with RJ from Vandalog, curator of said Thousands show (there's an Organ review of the exhibition with that link earlier in this blog entry), been busy editing the show this week... we'll shout when we have a broadcast date, although it will be up on line as a podcast as well.. Loads of good informative street art talk and such from/with RJ as he takes us on a tour of the show.

So today, off to play new exciting music on the radio at 9.00pm UK time, you can hear it worldwide via the Resonance 104.4FM website, we do that every Sunday night - but no Organgrinding here! This is about my adventures in art. And on the way to the radio show it will hopefully be warm enough to hold a pencil and draw on the tube train (always intersting to draw on the tube, get all kinds of reaction), and then leave the Yorkie Bar piece somewhere on the Southbank and see how the river is doing in the snow and ice... check our Resonance music show tonight if you're at a loose end and you like cutting edge new alternative music, we'll have loads of good stuff on there... London's only Arts radio station, the worlds only arts radio station? Best radio station in the world so say the New York Times... off to put a radio show together, picking music while I throw paint... KEEP CREATING...

Resist dying,..

Resist dying, screen print, natural dyes, cotton... 1987

THE CROW?

Two things I said I'd never do, set up a web page and start a blog, that and a Twitter thing, looking at art on line is not really the way to do it... That one up there was the last painting of the year, goes by the name of Crow, unless Y/you have a better one... Naming work, putting it on line, two things I really don't like doing

NO TO ORGANGRINDING....

For Organgrinding has taken up far too much time. No, not stopping it, still grinding as much as ever, but all that radio stuff and writing about other people's music and releasing other people's music is taking up far too much time. You'll find all that on the Organ magazine website over at Organart.com including the ever evolving bits of art news and reviews and bit of other people's street art and more over on the Organ magazine art pages. This is some quiet shouting about this and that and we do take every care to ensure these things reach you in perfect condition... No idea what will evolve on these pages or how much I shall write here, this is about my grinding ans painting and not Organ grinding... Started digging out some old work, bits of fabric, street art influenced textile work from the mid 80's and such and putting it up on the rather hidden portfolio pages that lurks here on the Organart website... We'll keep it quiet for now, let you stumble upon it while some more Organgrinding gets done... Here we go then... 2010....