Category Archives: art

CHARYBDIS

A new slideshow on Youtube I don’t do modern art, I do deep art. Unlike those modernists who derived abstraction from figuration – Mondrian for instance – I begin from chaos and just see how far I can get towards … Continue reading

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Stencil Art

Here I introduce my 2024 slide-show. It uses my watercolours which can be viewed any way up. Please don’t open the link to the video if you are likely to be offended by explicit images. The video is for adults … Continue reading

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Homage to the Horses of Saint Petersburg

Homage to the Horses of St Petersburg Originally performed in August 1998 as “The Return of the Horse to the Riding School” in the Manège – Saint Petersburg’s Central Exhibition Hall, formerly the Imperial Riding School, during the Second Festival … Continue reading

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Some Images from the River Lee

A rusty boat A sunken boat Another sunken boat Stonebridge Lock, Tottenham A closer look at the lock Hum of bees A web in the thicket

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Stewart Lee: The best performance I’ve ever seen

Table Moves, Birmingham Art Gallery, 1985 – Photograph: Judith Ahern ‘I was 16,’ says Stewart Lee, ‘and susceptible.’ It was my schoolfriend Simon Smith, perpetually ahead of the curve, who made me see the then-unknown REM catch fire at a … Continue reading

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The Broken Vase

I have just published a new slide-show on Youtube here! The drawings in pencil on a black watercolour ground are inspired by a passage in The Runiad – the epic poem I am writing. Stay with me now. There is … Continue reading

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ABSTRACTIONS

To accompany my COLLECTED LONGER POEMS – now published by Grey Suit Editions UK – I am releasing another Heyzine book. This is my collected ABSTRACTIONS Click on the link for a free online copy of this collection of my … Continue reading

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Cherem – for Palestine

A new video on Youtube Cherem is a slideshow created with lead pencil on black watercolour.   “Extremist rabbis fool the Jews by citing ancient texts That seek to prove that genocide is sacred if pronounced “Cherem”. Cherem dictates that … Continue reading

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Art and Anger

We seem to have entered into a time of lean years. I feel that the horrors of our time cannot be ignored. Seeking to deal with my anxiety in art, I created several slide-show videos using drawings I made with … Continue reading

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Wittgenstein and Performance

Thank you, Mischa Twitchin, for inviting me to contribute to this fascinating publication.

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