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DUNK ETHEL 2010

For all of you that have been emailing me about custom sneakers here is something for you.

This is the first and only pair of customs i have done in the last 5 years and they are up for grabs!!

They will be on sale this thursday at the Kicks N Canvas exhibition.

Doors open at 6.30pm

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Ladies UK 5 (US 8.5) along with a ladies size INSA swoosh tee. Packaged in this premium box and tissue paper.

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Kicks N Canvas asked me along with 20 other artists to submit a pair of custom sneakers and a 50cm x 50cm original piece to compliment the shoes.
Other artists include Goldie, Inkie, ATG, Antony Lister, Benedict Radcliffe.

Private view Thursday 8th April 6.30- 10pm

The exhibition runs from April 9 – April 24 and is open from 10am-6pm daily at The Gallery
50 Redchurch Street, London, E2
Please contact www.kicksncanvas.co.uk for all sales enquires and to RSVP to attend the preview night.

Time Out

Spotted in this weeks Time Out magazine….

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Another High Heel Wholecar- okay not quite a wholecar a cafe in an old train!!

Thanks Tom for spotting this pic!

New Whole Room Painting

Here is my latest piece of work i just completed at the weekend. Took me several days to paint the whole room!

I collaborated once again with my awesome photographer ETHEL to get the final image.

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(click to see larger image)

The work is entitled:

‘Success- Somewhere Between Two Golden Sphincters’.
Spray-paint, 3 walls, floor and ceiling, naked woman, baby oil-    London 2010

FAKERS

Seen in a cheap shoe strore in a mall in Clearwater Florida…

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Thanks Frankie FiveOh for the pic!

Institutionalised

Here are some pictures of my work on display in TATE Britain.

From supervising the installation to watching folks reaction to the work the whole thing was pretty surreal as this is perhaps one of the highest regarded art institutes in the country!!

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The second piece of work i made for the event was this 4foot by 4foot spinning lightbox display with chrome and gold mirrored panels:

“Only God and You Can Judge Me. (Jumbo Edition)”

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HOT SHIT….

Who’d have known elephant dung could look so sexy….?!?

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Thanks to Scarlet for modeling and Bernard for the photography.

The Making of…

Part of the excitement of making this work was finding the elephant dung and working out how to work with it!

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After tracking down a willing dung donor i found out this herd of elephants at Whipsnade zoo were the same ones that Chris Ofili had got his dung from over 15 years ago and possibly even the exact same elephant!

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Carrying a bag of smelly shit back to my studio on 2 trains and 2 buses was fairly entertaining,

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after spending a lot of time studying Ofili’s work up close i then got to work making a couple of prototypes.

Using the same techniques of resin coating, beading and painting i am really happy with the final outcome:

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INSA at TATE BRITAIN

So it has been an absolute honour and privilege to be asked by Tate Britain to produce some work in response to an artist i have admired for a long time: Chris Ofili.

Here are pictures of my first piece, a pair of 10″ platform heels made from elephant shit!

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The work is entitled “Anything comes when it comes to (s)hoes…”

And will be going on display in Tate Britain from sunday 14th March.

‘Bring the Noise!’

So i have been working on a couple of major bits of work for Tate Britain! i will share them with you real soon.

They will be on display at the gallery from the 14th of March as part of the Bring the Noise events:

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If you’re in London on the 14th or 21st make sure to come along!!

TO DEPTFORD WITH LOVE…

38 tonnes of love right in the heart of Deptford High Street.

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Thanks to Rebecca at The Deptford Project i was able to produce this new piece entitled “HEARTFELT”.

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Nothing says i love you like a wholecar……..