Faff-Chatter

A cretin's visual collection

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The Verse - an interview with Anna Boghiguian and Karen Mackinno at Artes Mundi 8. 

Read all about Boghiguian’s artistic process, political viewpoints, and advice for students alongside Artes Mundi 8 director/curator, Karen Mackinno. 

Read here 

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The Verse - an interview with Grayson Perry in his studio

What you’ve all been waiting for: an inadequate writer meets a transvestite potter.

Read all here 

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Flutter (2018)

Flutter by name, flutter by nature. 

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Flutter (2018)

A four day surrender in every sense of the word. Flutter, in it's various forms, was on display at ThirteenA, Norwich. December 24th - 28th 2018. Consider me cowardly.

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Fortuity (2018)

Context is king. (And birds love bread) 

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Balance (2018)

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, and try again. (Or, at least, find a short cut)

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Tread (2018) 

On display in ‘128 show’, Grand Parade, University of Brighton. October 2nd - 5th. 

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UPCOMING EXHIBITION - FLUTTER 

Location: ThirteenA, St.Augustines Street. Norwich

A four day surrender, in every sense of the word. On display at all times (sorry) from the 24th - 27th December.

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THE VERSE - ARTICLE / INTERVIEW  - Artes Mundi 8 with Anna Boghiguian

Corrosive materials, meteor fantasies, and images of the unmarked location - just three examples of this years Artes Mundi shortlist; the quintessential prize for a political art practice.

Interview here

Article here 

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INTERVIEW // GRAYSON PERRY

Is he a loveable character or a serious artist? There’s only one way to find out...

Read all here 

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Transgressions (2018)

That good ol’ back and forth. 

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Retort (2018)

Respond, repeat, respond, repeat, respond, repeat, respond, repeat, respond, repeat...

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Wayward (2018)

Practice makes adequate. 

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Scale (2018) 

Privilege is a tricky thing to define, especially when sided.

Now on display in OPEN 18, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. November 2nd - March 30th 2019. 

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Where Are You In These Interesting Times?

Shush (2018) - Commissioned Caricature 

Outsourcing : Because if you can't do it yourself, you sure as hell can find someone else to do it.

 Privy (2018) - Road sign, beret 

Not such an easy path now, is it? 

Now on display at AIR Gallery, Altrincham, Manchester. November 2nd - 9th 2018. 

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Where Are You In These Interesting Times? 

Where are you in these interesting times? It’s not all doom and gloom, but some of it probably is. Artists respond to the question, acknowledging their immediate surroundings and global issues, reaching across the realms of absurdity that exist and unfold around us.

Air Gallery will play host to 21 artists’ reactions to contemporary global and local cultures, scientific and technological progression, the media both nationally and internationally, and the abilities and identities of the people that inhabit this provocative, disturbing and somewhat dystopian world we find ourselves in.

Where do we find ourselves within this? How do we find ways to cope? What is beautiful? Where do we find it, and how can we celebrate it?

Artists: Rosie Abbey, Agil Abdullayev, Ambience Factory, Robin Broadley, Evelyn Cromwell, Clever Cunst, Enne&Moffa, John Flindt, Jake Francis, Precious Innes, Colin Keays, Denise Kehoe, Kieran Leach, Lidia Lidia, Joseph Lynn, Kieren March, Tom Milnes, Robyn Nichol, Jhonatan Pulido, Trevor H Smith, Katie Thomlinson.

So, where are you in these interesting times?

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BAD ART + SPACE HONEY: LIVING ROOM

Location: The Five Bells, Newcross Road, LondonArts and Performance exhibition with over 25 of London's most exciting and emerging artists with pieces and poetry and live music from : Elizabete Balcus - neo-psychadelic dream pop with eclectric influences and a surreal, theatrical live performance. PVA - Bo Diddly meets Club Classics. The Deep - Sit in the glittery ooze between Tom Waits and the Scissor Sisters Human Music - Makes music for humans, and only for humans. VOO LE VOO - Multi-instrumenting two piece who performed at the V&A last month. Crawl out from your Netflix ridden holes. We’ve got another hook up for you - The Living Room. There is a collective thirst for fake reality and we are here to quench it. The living room offers a retreat from existential boredom of the everyday, feeding our ever-growing need for fantasmatic escapes. Here, artworks are tangible devices from which to mould your own experience. Both artist, curator and audience are given the power to construct their own lucid dream, swaying between Sunday dinner with Grandma to the 13th conspiracy clip you gouged on Youtube.SPACE HONEY + BAD ART : LIVING ROOM