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East End graffiti artist Cyclops, has become an ubiquitous part of London’s trendy East. It’s hard to turn a corner without being presented with his trademark one-eyed Charlie-Brown or toothy grin. But, judging by his latest exhibition of fine art light-boxes and political badges, London’s favourite graffiti artist has grown up.
After wowing London Fashion Week with a presentation teeming with abundant colours, abundant layering, abundant accessories, and a crowd of abundant celebrity purveyors, Central Saint Martins Alumni Louise Gray, treats Mooks to an exclusive look at her latest look-book, LFW show highlights and her up-and-coming line.
A new exhibition at London’s St Martin’s Lane Front Room, shows rare photographs of artist Jean Michel Basquiat riding the 80’s downtown New York club scene, taken by GRAY bandmate Nicholas Taylor. The exhibition also features never-before-seen black and white images of the couple playing together in the infamous experimental band GREY, whose legendary Mudd Club residency brought them praise from Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, who called them “possibly the best band on the planet”.
Though it looks like British photographer Anne Hardy has just stumbled on these abandoned rooms – a science lab, a basketball-littered storage cupboard, a dusty Christmas-tree filled living room – this is not the case at all. Hardy has, in fact, spent months – two months for each set-up on average – sourcing each artifact, each decoration. That collection of weights and weightlifting trophies? A bounty of jumble sale finds. The derelict greenhouse, sanctioned by bio-hazzard tape? A mélange of second-hand pot plants and possessions from a particularly successful trip around the city skips. She’s spent hours moving each object maybe 5cm this way, 10cm that, to see where it perfectly fits. The seemingly accidental visual details – the clustering and stacking of things, the trodden-in dust and dirt are all her doing. Details in a larger story. A work of fiction.
Thought the most glamorous thing about the Women’s Institute was the Helen Mirren vehicle about a racy calendar? You thought wrong. Jazz Mellor, daughter of The Clash’s Joe Strummer, is reclaiming granny activities for the cool kids.
Where were you when you first heard Wild Thing? What was the first rock tune you bought? Did you save up? Spend a week’s pocket money? How old were you when you first learnt the lyrics to U2’s Where the Streets Have No Name? Which song did you fall in love to? Ensconced in musical references and asides, David Spiller’s latest exhibit at London’s Beaux Art Gallery explores a life through song… |
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