Confronting the Danger of Art

Images from a Pamphlet I’m working on in collaboration with the poet Ian McLachlan.

The pamphlet is based on Public Information Pamphlets which were prevalent (certainly in the UK) around the 1970’s. These pamphlets were on a range of topics concerning safety in and around the home and in general worked by reducing uncontrollable events (such as a nuclear attack) to a series of easy to follow actions. They were weird though, placating and patronising and with a hefty dose of fear mixed in.

Our Pamphlet is based upon the idea that the main danger facing the public today is that of art. This creates a nice little paradox and has provided really fertile ground for me and Ian to work on.

Currently I’m about a third of the way through, then there’s printing and so on, so don’t expect this very soon. More, as soon as we can!

More self-negotiated fun

Another piece done purely for the fun of it. This one is worked up from an old Scouting annual I found in a charity shop. I want to hold a fox.

Work on three pamphlets/zines (whatever you want to call them - I guess 'zines' is wrong as none of them will be done on a photocopy type ethic) concurrently at the moment, the 'Broken Homes' one is nearing completion and should be available in my store soon. The 'Revelations' one is a little way off still and the other one, well that's a little bit of a secret and special collaboration with the fantastic poet Ian McLachlan.

More to follow as and when. Get out in that sun!

That's My Game!

Portrait of Will Ferrel, for no good reason other than I love him and I love drawing.