So it went something like this last Wednesday...

So it went something like this last Wednesday... art was left, vinyl was left, people picked it up, people werer seen with it under their arms, talking to each other about it... the council saw it all as litter... the elite West London galleries who seem to think art has to have a designer label attached didnt like the spae invasion too much... and the Facebook talk went like this....

Sean Worrall

come on then Mr/Ms Sxissor, come join us, reclaim the streets...

07 July at 14:49 · ·

Reuben Thompson

you still have gog/magog singles? I still lived with my mum when i bought that...

07 July at 17:57 · ·

Sean Worrall

Oh yes, still a few, as with most small record labels, not every release sells out, or you fall to the temptation of repressing one too many times... everything is a potential canvas though... Wonder if those left out last night found a home, most seem to have gone when we retraced our steps later in the evening,,, did they find a loving home or a council roadsweeping bin?

Thursday at 08:54 · ·

Doubledge Scissor

Gonna try and get involved next month! To short notice!

Thursday at 10:53 · ·

Sean Worrall

did you find one of the pieces last night then? Saw a few tucked under people's arms, overheard some interesting conversations... fun being invisible...

Thursday at 14:16 · ·

Monica Nelson

Much better to be a fly on the wall letting everybody find their own interpretations rather than robbing them of that by explaining WHAT it means. Same goes for songs

Friday at 05:03 · ·

Sean Worrall

Flies indeed, spies they are, this morning a delightfully colourful phonecall from the Kensington And Chelsea council explaining how they do like ot encourage art but that there is a place for it. Seems someone had made a complaint about someone littering the streets with big pieces of cardboard, we had an interesting conversation about litter ... See morebeing nothing but litter and this being a "friendly off the record warning" to say that if it happens again they have an idea about who what and where and that further action will have to be taken... they declined the invite to come talk on the radio show...

Friday at 11:16 · ·

Grebo Gray

typical!!

Friday at 13:58 · ·

Monica Nelson

‎"Encourage art but that there is a place for it"????!!!!! That is when my entire school life went downhill -in the 3rd grade- because there was a 'place' (and conforming standards) regarding art KEEP LITTERING THE STREETS WITH ART FOR GOODNESS SAKES! Thrown away chewing gum wrappers no one minds but art is objected to?

Friday at 18:47 · ·

Doubledge Scissor

There is rubbish on the street already, the very same pieces of art in question are painted/sprayed on to pieces of cardboard that, if i have my facts correct, started life after their initial use as rubbish/litter/garbage whatever you wanna call it! So really your not littering but just brightening up the litter that is already there, thus ... See moremaintaining the same amount of litter on the streets, but hold on, cos making them look good and then people taking them home, that's recycling and that is a good thing! No bad can come of this venture! Keep it up and I'm gonna join in!

Friday at 19:41 · ·

Sean Worrall

Well yes, that is true, the pieces were painting on cardboard found on the street, giant cardboard boxes that once contained flat screen TVs... found them in Brent though, so technically the litter has been moved from one borough to another

Friday at 20:11 · ·

Sean Worrall

actually all but one of my big canvas pieces from this year have been painted on canvas found on the street, litter as it were - bring me you unwanted canvas, your unfinished paintings, your nice thick slabs of flatscreen cardboard, nevermind Michael Landis, i am your artbin...

Friday at 20:26 · ·

Doubledge Scissor

john landis is a film director, who is michael? his brother? shifting litter from one borough to a next isn't a crime. think of all those awful bands playing in different boroughs/cities/countries, they're shifting rubbish all over the place. no one stops them. cardboard for canvas, perfect! will used old cardboard to send cd's in, recycling is what we're doing! thats a good thing mr and mrs council!!

Friday at 21:36 · ·

Doubledge Scissor

‎*we used old cardboard....*

Friday at 21:37 · ·

Sean Worrall

you cardboard was on a gallery wall last week...

Friday at 23:14 · ·

Doubledge Scissor

is it still there?

Yesterday at 00:22 · ·

Sean Worrall

no, there's still xome big canvas pieces but all the cardboard was removed at the end of my show last week..

Yesterday at 01:48 · ·

Doubledge Scissor

even more gutted that i missed it now! next time

Yesterday at 02:36 · ·

23s and FIRST WEDNESDAYS PAINTING DROP, A SET OF WORKS IN PROGRESS...

Sticky fingered Montana drips on those found pieces of TV box cardboard and the ever evolving Red Italian High Heels... Work in progress in the sticky heat of North West London, started last night, finishing today, dropped on the streets of West London and FIRST WEDNESDAYS (links in previous blogs if you feel you need to know) tonight from 6pm onwards...

23 pieces of cardboard recycling and art on the street, the art of leaving art on the street... and a whole lot of recycled Gog Magog 7" black vinyl.... 23, everything is 23... we'll be catching the 23 bus from the top of Ladbrook Grove, we'll maybe even leave the first of he 23 pieces on the 23 bus... all will have an e.mail on the back, I really want to hear about the adventures these pieces of art get themselves involved in...

100 PAINTERS SUMMER SHOW

So today, as well as dealing with high heels, skirts that aren't ironed and preparing pieces for the First Wednesday painting drop tomorrow (and having another look at Elisabeth Osbourne's rather fine show of paintings at the Dissenter's Chapel gallery space in Kensal Green), I've been pulling together the 100 PAINTINGS SUMMER SHOW. Probably the last show of the summer at the gallery space we've been working with. The idea is simple, one hundred paintings pulled together by me, no more than four pieces per artist and all on the wall of the gallery to be enjoyed and explore for ten days... i suspect this will be the last show we put on in the Patrick'd Harvist space for now, it has been fun but I never really intended to run a gallery sapce mysELF, I was looking for a collective of people to come together rather than me doing it all.... we shall see, it certainly has been an experience and pulling this show together is proving to be more than interesting.... good collection of work, artistist coming together, diverse collection... including some of Elisabeth's boxing paintings...

"Where will the paintings be?"

"Where will the paintings be?"

"What time will you be doing it?"

"Can I arrange to have one?"

Just some of the questions since I mentioned the drop of 23 paintings that will happen sometime this Wednesday evening around West London somewhere near the events associated with the First Wednesdays.

What is First Wednesdays? West London's attempt to do what East London does so well with First Thursdays - West London's version seems to be more about over-priced designer shops, expensive restaurants and rather elitist upmarket galleries that the likes of us aren't really that welcome in... well that's the vibe we got last month (besides the friendly people and the excellent art to be found in the small EastWest gallery where the excellent Cathy Fenwick, Eight Horseman of The Apocalypse was on).

First Wednesdays announces itself as a "sister" event to East London's far more artist friendly, do it yourself, "we're all in this together" (to borrow a quote from one recent Portobello resident) attitude... but hey if First Wednesdays really want to be as interesting and inclusive, as inviting, something a little more that just glossy life-style magazines and a free glass of champagne then I guess that's kind of up to us West London art makers and do'ers and such... The organisers of First Wednesdays tell us they want it to be inclusive, they want it to be for everyone... I guess that's an open invite and you can't moan about things if you don't contribute, get involved and add something, the First Wednesdays people got something going, let's al lget involved and make it something for everyone, the fancy restaurants, the high-price designer shops and the high-line galleries don't have to have it all to themselves do they?

So yes, a drop of 23 paintings (and maybe some more hand painted vinyl pieces) around West London somewhere sometime on early Wednesday evening - under the Westway, Portobello Road, who knows where....

WORLD CUP TVs, FIRST WEDNESDAY, ART ON THE STREET, UNDER THE WESTWAY......

Maria Slovakova's work next to three of my canvas pieces in the gallery space down in the basement at Patrick's Harvist. Great space this. last photo of the show... Time to get back out on the street. 50 new pieces in preparation this weekend... World Cup fall out and the great flatscreen TV buy-fest in anticipation of the feast of flowing football... Lots of great cardboard out on the street, strong thick cardboard that once was wrapped around all the hope invested in flatscreen TVs and Engerland, all that nice thick double strength cardboard waiting to be picked up and painted on.... fresh cardboard all sliced up now, 50 pieces of strong thick TV-wrapping card, now all covered in paint and waiting for new layers, new leaf growth. All will be ready for a West London street drop on Wednesday evening (early evening), time to shake up the frustrating designer label politeness that is West London First Wednesday just a little with some art on the street... under the Westway, along Ladbrook Grove, Portobello. Wednesday night, under the Westway, deep in Clash land where Hawks once took off past the fourth day of a five day marathon... time to move like a parallelogram..

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?