I’m a visual artist, so this brief piece about Mark Fisher’s draft introduction to his planned book Acid Communism (sadly never to be realised due to his premature death) examines the concept from an artist’s perspective. As an immediate warning to the curious, I want to make clear that…
I’ve been trying to figure out the legality (and ethical conundrums) of restarting my life-drawing practice under the revised “3 Tier” system that is due to come into force in England on Wednesday 2nd December. I’m approaching this as objectively as I can, not in a “looking for loopholes”…
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My plan for December 2019 and the first three months of 2020 was to take Acid Renaissance into new territory. It would be brighter and more hopeful, and start to signal some potential radical futures. Sometimes, though, things just don’t turn out how you expect. Instead there emerged a…
“The time for sending messages in bottles has passed. As seas toxify and rise over the shorelines, who will be left to read them? Nonetheless, we have to communicate. So we communicate. To anyone who will listen. Through the haze of wine, cannabis, SSRIs, exhaustion, overwork, climate depression,…
In a recent blogpost Ellen Rogers wrote of her current Gnosis project: It’s taken me 4 years to try and articulate what this project is about, but I felt like I was repeatedly going back to square one… Until recently all I really knew was that I was blindly following a feeling that…
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It’s been a month since my last update on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork, and as I mentioned in that post I wasn’t planning on doing any artwork for the project over August because I had too many other things on and needed to “recharge” anyway. The Delaware Road: Ritual & Resistance…
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Being the latest of a (now traditionally unpunctual) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. The Dream Eaters I mentioned the Dream Eaters in my last update, but I’m mentioning them again because I’ve now got the set of Dream Eaters A5-sized postcards printed and…
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Prompted by some idle musing on Twitter the other day: The photographic elements of my Acid Renaissance series could be seen as frozen moments from a strange spot-lit performance - part play, part dance, part ritual - from which you (the viewer) must infer the wider narrative. I’ve never…
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Being one of a (much overdue) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. The Keeper of the Archives In late June I took the photographs for The Keeper of the Archives. I had a great deal of trouble narrowing my choice down to one image from this shortlist of three: So…
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On August 17th/18th 2019 I will be taking part in The Delaware Road: Ritual & Resistance, with a combination of an exhibition and artwork stall inside a secret military base near Stonehenge. The Delaware Road : Ritual & Resistance is a unique festival of music, art, film & theatre featuring…
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