The first daffodil out of the studio bunker

The first daffodil out of the studio bunker darkness that has been the start of 2011, bring on the spring now please (work in progess....)

working on other people's work

ah, Monday morning, new canvas found, in one of those industrial waste bins right outside my studio... I rather like this one (photo later), the work of VINS AND EVA as in http://ilovetofuckyou.blogspot.com/ - looks like a finished piece, wonder why they left it in the bin outside the studio?

I feel a whole show of pieces of work done on other people's canvases or indeed sculptures or pieces of cardboard that other artists and such have left here. That one up there is a piece that Steven Rawlings brought around. I really liked it as it was, but that wasn't the point of him bringing it here, he would only leave it if I worked on it... so I have...

Anyone feel like dropping off some art and getting involved in this? leave it outside if you want, come knocking on the door if you want..

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SPRING! VINYL, BOARDS, CANALS...

Right then, Spring is here, time to get out and paint up a storm of colour... think I'll go leave some painted vinyl out on the street today, or maybe up in the East London trees (and good to see someone finally got out there erased the New year's eve episode)... here's how things look out front of the bunker door right now, one found piece of board that came in off the street during the winter and now already to go back out now the sunshine is here... You'll find it down by the canal somewhere in E8 not far from London Fields waiting for someone to take it home later today..

And yes I know the blog has been neglected and my website even more so, I don't like the winter, lots of creativity been going on here in the dark bunker though, lots of new things to put up on line and leave on the Spring streets... Whole new website up in the next few days, this time made by someone who knows what she's doing. Lots of new work waiting to be seen. New art shows being booked and...

meanwhile I know there's no Organgrinding here but, this looks good and well here's a link http://www.organart.com/organthing093.html

ROA, ROBOTS>>>>, PHLEGM...

February 24rd 2011

I know we’ve probably gone on about the art of the ever prolific Roa a little too much in recent times here at Organ but he’s at it again and there can’t be too much Roa can there?

gentrification can't actually kill creativity...

of course gentrification can't actually kill creativity, you just stay one step ahead of it. I hadn't forgotten I had a blog, just took a step back from the internet for the winter while I paint away in our new bunker studio and new green shoots break the surface. Lots of painting, lots of canvas finding and recycling, things ready to leave on the street once more. Amusing to find that the same property pimp estate agents who helped push us out last year are using my art and the shows we put on last year as a selling point for the area that we can no longer afford to live in. Right there all over their website, have to smile at that one. No, gentrification can't kill creativity, the winter has been a productive positive one, surrounded by new work, happy in new surroundings, eating hot buttered toast and about to get on with these layers of daffodils that are threatening to shows their faces any day now... Time to blog a bit, like those daffodils, I'm ready to emerge for the spring...

Now then, all you artists who's work we had the pleasure of hanging on walls and showing in shows last year. what do you have coming up? Be nice to see these invites to join in were working in both directions...

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