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25 Oct A Letter to America – Your Coffee is Shit

Posted at 01:32h in Uncategorized

For a country fueled on caffeine, your coffee is pure shit. I've been here 6 times and every time I order a coffee all I get is a mug of hot coffee-flavoured water. Even in posher places where I think yes, this will definitely be...

24 Oct LA – Day 3

Posted at 23:49h in Uncategorized

An army marches on its stomach and all that. Brekkie at John O Groats on Pico (widely regarded as best breakfast in LA). It didn't disappoint. Sounds strange but one of the best things about America is the French toast for breakfast. Some last minute spit...

24 Oct LA – Day Two (Day One was fly fly fly, sleep sleep sleep)

Posted at 01:13h in Travel

Pulled up at the printers to see Chloe's prints. Nice work on the outside by London Police and Buff Monster. And on the the gallery to see how the show is looking. Happy girl. All they do in LA is drive. Interesting photo thingy in the lift in our...

19 Oct Chloe in LA

Posted at 20:43h in Travel, Uncategorized

We're off to LA tomorrow morning - sweeeeeeeeeet! - for Chloe's show at Corey Helford (already sold out). I get to go along as her +1, nice nice. The piece above is a banger - Silver-Tip Symphony, at a whopping 6ft x 8ft. I hear its raining...

19 Oct Modern Painters – The Gangster

Posted at 20:41h in Press etc

There's a nice feature in the current Modern Painters about Steve Laz and the gallery. Thats not me on the cover but thats me on the bottom right. ...

19 Oct Achtung Baby

Posted at 19:57h in Travel, Uncategorized

Just as the bold and the beautiful of the art glitteratti descended on London for the annual Frieze circus, I took Chloe away to Berlin as a surprise for too nights (what a guy). It was her birthday so she got to follow me...

12 Oct The Holy Smoke Quintet – Views

Posted at 23:09h in Shows

Thanks as always to Ian for the photos, Steve laz for the idea and support and everyone at Lazarides for pulling it all together (especially Vic)....

12 Oct The Holy Smoke Quintet

Posted at 22:57h in Shows

These are the 5 pieces I did for Hell's Half Acre. Our general brief was Dante's Divine Comedy. We could take from it what we wanted. Given its strong Catholic tone I was quite keen to look at Christianity's relationship with Islam. I was in...

12 Oct 60×1 (choo choo!)

Posted at 22:22h in Uncategorized

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY9XbzrwPwk] Reeeeally nice vid here from my boy JJ in Japan. He's a Cork exile, stationed in the far reaches of the globe to see if there really is life outside of Cork (there isn't). We used to spend a lot of time together in the...

09 Oct Hells Half Acre

Posted at 19:00h in Shows, Videos

I'm sure a lot of you have heard about this by now, our big Autumn group show is opening in the scary tunnels underneath Waterloo Station in conjunction with the Old Vic Theatre. I have 5 pieces as well as an installation type thing in...

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