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Life-drawings by the author
: “As the third national lockdown in England doesn’t look like it will be a short one, I’ve been making some plans on how to continue my artistic practice under the restrictions. The vast majority…”
Life drawing by the author
: “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…”
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: “I suddenly realised I haven’t updated this for a few months, and while I haven’t been especially prolific I have actually completed some more Acid Renaissance artwork, so… Sketch for “The Lotus…”
: “The Heartwood Institute’s Tomorrow’s People – Exploring Far Off Utopian Flipsides: Wanderings 14/26 The latest blogpost from A Year In The Country discusses The Heartwood Institute’s album Tomorrow’s…”
: “It’s a cool clear morning here on the southern coast. Sparrows perching on the phone lines, distant cries of seagulls. It feels so calm, but it shouldn’t be. The tiny fracture lines in the world widen. The…”
: “Following on from April’s blog post, lockdown continues to force my Acid Renaissance series of artwork into different directions. Photography has been temporarily abandoned, as has in-person life-drawing. Instead…”
Read the rest of “Acid Renaissance update: The Oracle and the Sexton”…
: “eBay Experiment The drawers in my plan chest are full, I’ve run out of space to store artwork and a plan chest drawer filled to the top with stacked paper is surprisingly heavy - just opening and…”
: “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.…”
Part of the cover to the book Albion by Brenda Vale
: “The problem with modern democracy is that it has thoroughly convinced everyone that you only get one chance to improve society every five years. Didn’t succeed this time? You’ll have to wait another…”
Read the rest of “Albion: utopianism and the post-apocalyptic pastoral”…
Photograph of field between Hassocks and Clayton, by the author
: “I’m going to be returning to talking about art and all the related stuff I usually talk about in the next few weeks, but until then I wanted to post a few pictures from another walk. In some ways these…”
Photograph of Devil’s Dyke, by the author
: “Yesterday Kate and I took the 77 bus from Brighton Station up to Devil’s Dyke. This bus only runs on weekends and public holidays and takes about 20 minutes to get out to Devil’s Dyke, stopping right…”
Photograph by the author
: “I’ve lifted the term “post-apocalyptic pastoral” from a book review by Goodreads user Terry from Toronto who effectively seeded my reading list by citing Richard Jefferies’ After London: or, Wild…”
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In the Dark Woods (detail) by Paul Watson
: “I have mentioned “The Weird” as a concept before, and I wanted to expand on the idea, particularly after reading We Demand An End to Capitalist Realism (which you really should read right now, it’s…”
Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines, by the author
: “Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines is the latest piece in my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. It’s a drawing made in Sanguine pencil (and some white pencil) measuring 760mm × 560mm, and yes,…”
Detail from The High Priestess by the author
: ““If living in a new weird ontology is the only way for people to keep living, what do we want to keep of ourselves?” — Elvia Wilk, Toward a Theory of the New Weird This single sentence has…”
: “I’ve been thinking lately about woods and meadows and the edges of lakes, places of importance in my own personal mythology that feed into my artwork. So far in my Acid Renaissance series these places…”
Previously unpublished photograph from the Keeper of the Archives shoot, by the author
: “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…”
Read the rest of “The Psychedelic Gothic in Acid Renaissance”…
: “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…”
Read the rest of “Artistic block, Bacchanalia, and Jenny Greenteeth”…
: “Back in April Warren Ellis referenced the Republic of Letters to talk about email newsletters, a Republic of Newsletters. The next 18 months will see a small explosion of print zines — a Republic…”
: “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…”
Read the rest of “The Dream Eaters dance beneath the Crescent Moon”…