Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Glasgow Exhibition

Some photos from a show I'm taking part in, held in the Newbery Tower, Glasgow School of Art.


Tim Savage






Sam Derounian





Me with my piece, Jubilee.





Silja Strom



Guests at the opening on 14/01/10





Jacob Jensen



Tom Marshallsay



Opening night.



Martin Convery



Gabriella Evaristi Boyd


Gabi, Mary and Amelia at the opening.
Lei Liu's painting in the background.



Guests & artists at the opening.

Monday, 11 January 2010

Saturday, 9 January 2010

Lowlife Highlights

My favourites from current 3rd year GSA painting & printmaking dept. exhibition.


Magda Weglinska



Rachel Sharpe, Cindy Sherman



Rachel Sharpe, Andy Warhol in Drag



Jodie Liddle

The show is on until Wednesday of next week in the Newbery Gallery, The Newbery Tower opposite the Mackintosh building, Glasgow School of Art.

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Blitzkrieg Bop


Debbie Juvenile & Siouxsie Sioux


Clare with the Hair


Adam Ant & Jordan


Magenta Devine


Pinkietessa


Princess Julia


Sue Catwoman

Read Princess Julia's account of the Blitz days at TO THE EDGE AND BACK

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Madame Yevonde











I just discovered the work of English portrait photographer Madame Yevonde today, and I wish I had done so earlier! These images are from her Goddesses series. This was inspired by a costume party she attended where guests dressed as Roman and Greek gods and goddesses. The woman in the last picture is Diana Guinness of the Mitford family, who went on to marry Oswald Mosley. Yevonde's work did much to boost the reputation of colour photography which was not popular in the 1930s.
Madame Yevonde was a Suffragette in her youth, and I think her feminist leanings show in these images. She presents women as beautiful, otherworldly and possessing a kind of esoteric power. They appear to be lost in their own legend, with the exeption of Medusa who fixes the viewer with that deadly stare.

Friday, 1 January 2010