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...