end of show...

Well now, that was the solo show at the gallery space underneath Patrick's Harvist cafe. Thanks to everyone who took the time to come have a look, thanks to everyone who took part, who went hunting for the art left on the street everyday of the show, vinyl hanging from trees in the park, painted cardboard on street corners (sometimes question if all that distracts from the big canvas pieces?)

Some of the work will stay in the gallery, some will be taken down (and a few pieces delivered to the buyers, thank you very much...), so if you haven't been to the gallery space yet there's lots to see in there still both in terms of my work and work from others including JUSTIN BAILEY, ROBIN CLARE, DAVID DIPRÉ, GURDISH HAUGSDAL, BEN OAKLEY, CARRIE REICHARDT, MARIA SLOVAKOVA, TWINKLE TROUGHTON and more...

STREET ART PART 2....

Today's five pieces of art were a recycled 12" dance remix of the first Poloroid single (released on ORG back '94 or '95) and left outside Graceland's Cafe in Kensal Rise, alongside a cardboard piece left on the windscreen of one of the Indian Karma Cabs that live in the street here in NW10. Another piece was left on the window of the lock up shop by Kensal Rise railway station (the lock up shop I really want to rent and turn in to some kind of art space). A fourth piece was left by the street sign on the corner of Mostyn Gardens and a fifth outside the flower shop on the pavement just over the road from the gallery on Chamberlayne Road (on the border of Queens Park and Kensal Green).
All five pieces have contact details on the back (alongside flyers for the current show at Patrick's Harvist) , all five had gone when I went down to the gallery this afternoon. So far I've heard from a girl called Jane asking about the vinyl piece and had it been lost? Could she keep it?

More tomorrow? Maybe a canvas piece? Or maybe leave some more out tonight?

STREET ART?

Sean_Worrall - Every day this coming week, starting on Monday, I shall leave five pieces of art around NW10/NW6 somewhere near @ph_gallery #streetart - vinyl, cardboard, canvas - watch the streets, Kensal Green cemetery, the tube station, the park, don't know where yet... Let's see what becomes of it all, each will have a message, I hope people will response and.... Art is a gallery on formal walls, art on the street for people to find... pick up... ignore? Destory? Take home? Frame? Share? Bring back to the gallery?

The Red Series and the Solstice sunrise and...

Sunday morning, none stop working on this solo show and the Affordable Fair and doing everything ourselves has burnt us out completely... Organ team grinding away more than ever, no time to write about music or consider radio shows or anything else... There's the recent red series, as recent as earlier this week actually, and there's the big Wilfred beatbox painting - this really is a great space, feel like I need a day of sleep rather than thinking about Sunday morning flyering in Queens Park(right by the gallery space that you'll find underneath the tearoom). And such grey weather for the eve of the Summer Solstice... too burnt out to blog, put so much effort in to this show that I'm all out of words, and I would really like you to come have a look... Lots more photos on Facebook, I really don't like Facebook but one must tell people using all the platforms I guess, whore it all away and suck at the soul... Enjoy the sunrise... The Summer Solstice piece will be in the gallery on Monday (or maybe Tuesday, paint doesn't dry that fast)

PATRICK'S HARVIST GALLERY SPACE IMAGES

A small taste of what's on the wall of Patrick's Harvist gallery space right now, the show runs (all day every day) ubtil June 27th... Kensal Rise, London, NW10

SO THE SHOW OPENED...

Show opened last night, burnt out, we were hanging all day, right up to the last minute. Maria performed her spoken work poetry soundscapes with cello, laptop and visuals in the cafe area, she made it rather special, well the night was special anyway, but Maria added so much. the paintings are all hung in the gallery area, there for the next ten days... More words later when I've caught a minute, Thursday was frantic, Wednesday was frantic, loads of new paintings or new layers on old paintings, ever evolving... Heading down there now, Friday morning, catch my breath and see it all properly

And even if I do say so myself, the work looks good all together on those walls... that's the way to see it, not on line via digital soulsucking, live and in the flesh, living and breathing on the walls for you to see, touch, explore....

power cuts, bad weather and 11 different slices of art maker...

Art Fair has been and gone, all kinds of things happened, organised, Organ-ised... Power cuts, storms, people, eleven artists coming together and feeding off each other in a positive way. Once it was all on the walls and we could see it all properly it all looked excellent (even if I do say so myself), quite a buzz to see it all there and to know we pulled it all together - lots of effort, lots of work, busy opening night. work sold, work traded, eleven slightly different ideas on how to go about the art of making and presenting art. The weekend wasn't without a problem or two, not sure I want all my time and energy sucked up running a gallery space right now, really ate up my art making time and well... time to get the solo show together, hanging it tonight and opeing tomorrow, been painting up a storm, spaying up a storm.... photos of it all up soon... and more words... no time today...

That piece up there is another that emerged yesterday, well it has been emerging over the last couple of weeks... no more spraying on it today, need to let all the new pieces or the evolving pieces dry out in the wind or we're going to have the gallery and cafe engulfed in the sweet smell of Montana Gold paint...

All out of found canvas now, found another one last week... and I do rather like that people are now bringing their unfinshed of 'failed' pieces to me... "paint on this, cover it all up so only you and I know what's there underneath, validate the art" she said...

WHAT IS AFFORDABLE ART? WHEN IS ART AFFORDABLE?

It happened something like this, tired of the way galleries here in London, on the whole, seem to treat artists (it appears to be nothing but an exercise in squeezing as much money out of their cash cows at they can...), tired of all this, I went searching for something different. The notion of some kind of artist collective, people pulling together, a space for a collective...

I’d heard about this new gallery space that wasn’t really being used, right on my doorstep here in Kensal Rise (we need some art life around here, this has to be the deadest area of London in terms of art events). Went in with the simple intention of hiring the space to put a couple of show on, the enthusiastic man who runs the place somehow talked me into the task of running the entire art space (the gallery space is underneath his rather pleasant tea room). His terms seemed reasonable enough, this deal seems a little more like it terms of the artist. How difficult could it be? After all we’ve put on hundreds of rock gigs, Napalm Death rider demands, mosh pits and ambulances, and we know how to hold and publicise an event. How many flyers have we given out? Press releases, posters, we know how to do all that... this should be rather enjoyable... we’ll do it ourselves, we’re good at that. . We know where the exciting artists are...

So the idea of a collaborative art fair thing seemed like an exciting way to kick things off, gather together some artists that excite us and hold a four day event with art, music and a whole load of good creative people... Something that would get people of this area of London interested (and hopefully) excited about the space....

Without really thinking we called the opening even an “Affordable Art Fair”, just a name, we just wanted people to know there was vibrant art to come enjoy and that if they wanted to buy it then it was “Affordable”. We didn’t really think too much about it...

But what is affordable? One person’s affordable is another person’s way out of reach, I mean if you have a fiver in your pocket until the end of the week then there’s no such thing as affordable art is there? A bus ticket isn’t affordable... Affordable art? Only if you can afford it... We were wrong to call it an affordable art fair, got quiet a reaction. The art will be there for you to enjoy, it will be reasonable priced, that fact can’t be argued with. for the record, the price range will be anything between £5 and I think the highest priced piece £1500 – may or may not be “affordable” to everyone, but more than reasonable. And it really isn’t about the selling anyway, no, just come and enjoy...

Personally I’d rather just give my art away, some of you know I often do, paint shop doesn’t seen to be in tune with this though... the notion of what is affordable and what isn’t has bothered me this last week, people have really question the whole notion of selling art. I‘ve changed all the website flyers and the event is just an Art Fair...

I shall put on a new two day event, it will be called “WHAT IS AFFORDABLE?” The art will all be free to take if you think that’s the right thing to do. You can pay for it if you want, put some money in an envelope, put it in the black box by the door... We’ll have some of my art, some found art, artists who want to get involved get in touch... we will be picky though, this will not be some kind of art bin for your failed art...