GENTRIFICATION KILLS CREATIVITY:

neglected blog... but not through apathy, just busy doing actually rather than writing/talking about doing... Paint alive and going off and things... A collection of reasonably big new pieces coming together for this new show in Kensal Green... that and searching for new space to put events on and pull art together

GENTRIFICATION KILLS CREATIVITY: Spent an interesting couple of days searching out London area live-in art spaces, abandoned hotels, cheap unloved factory spaces that need converting and such (not squats). Found a great space yesterday that could be converted in to 12 or so live-in art-making spaces and a gallery... ...we'll know next week if our proposal for that one goes through although I now hear someone wants for a corporate media company base.

Fed up with the way some galleries treat artists, really enjoying showing other people's work, time to shake it up even more, need alternative spaces.... as excited about the other painters at the next show as I am about my work . Found a great old (closed) railway station that would make for a great gallery/work space but Network Rail are far too tied up in red tape and obstructions to want to make it happen...

Anyone got any interesting gallery space they need running I wonder ?

Anyone interested in these ideas, getting involved in alternative art making/living space and such, there's a core group of artists looking, but space could mean we need/want more.... Had enough of greedy landlords, estate agents and the gentrification of our living / creative spaces

Need more/better creative, bathroom overflowing with new work drying...

MORE NOTIONS OF STREET ART...

NOTIONS OF STREET ART... Went out for milk this morning, found two big canvas beasts waiting for the bin-men, one with a big rip that will require more stitching (as did last week's found canvas) and the other with some kind of unfinished school artwork course work (I know this because a note saying 'course work' so is stapled to it), it looked like decent start, wonder if that's the end of the person's artistic output? Thrown out at the end of their school life... but no, not heading for the dump, saved and now probably heading for a gallery in September once I get to work on it... For this is one of my notions of street art, these abandoned (clearly unfinished) canvas pieces are my personal walls waiting for new layers, walls to be painted on, to be added to , worked over... my radar is tuned, forever on the look out for canvas or frames or... yesterday a flat screen computer monitor found on the street, now out back waiting for paint, the thing is broken, cracked screen, looks great when plugged in ...

The Harvist is in...

Neglecting things a little in blog land, not enough hours.... The adventure at Harvist Gallery is over for now, the three summer shows have now been and gone... three shows, more than fifty artists, it didn't work quite in the collective way we hoped it would, ended up me/us running a gallery and everyone else just sticking their work on the walls (or letting us stick the work on the walLs for them). It was a positive experience, most of it went well, most of it was a pleasure, lots of interaction, lots of interest from people, healthy reaction, some sales... It all got a little in the way of the process of making art... meant for a lot of healthy interaction with other artists... it was good... on to the next thing