Check out this short film, a gaggle of graff artists travelled to a scottish village that has been abandoned by all humanity and splatter the whole place with paint

The Ghostvillage Project from Agents Of Change on Vimeo.

Ford (2009)
Linocut prints on found car panel

I really don’t have a bloody clue how I get anything done in my mofo studio place, it’s such a plop hole, I suppose it kinda resembles the state of my mind, a complete wacky mess.
At this precise moment in time though, I’m in my art dump working on the city scape theme.

The urban landscapes are an integral aspect of the subject matter I’m exploring. whilst I have been painting the people that live in my area, I’ve not really had the chance to document the big bastard concrete Behemoths that populate the city,

These housing estates are deemed to be synonymous with urban decay, breeding grounds for the hordes of little human squabs that plague our streets, “hello Daily Mail”.
I try though, to see these places as another aspect of the city that is under appreciated, what many of us fail to understand is that these estates, as messed up as some are, house a million stories. Although the buildings seem lifeless, behind each door some real shit is going on, people striving to live their lives, with the kind of story lines that don’t get slotted into any episodes of Eastenders.

But thats the wonderful thing about these places, it’s the rawness, it’s real life, it’s all about the shit, the wonder, the struggle, the victories, All the energy and beauty of the city contained in these ‘urban troublespots’,

So I’m going to concentrate on that concept for a little bit…….although I’m not sure if it’s safe to be setting up my easel in the middle of Maiden lane estate, lots of curtains twitching and shitty little kids throwing things at me can throw a man out of his creative stride….

If you visit the Mutate britain show ‘One foot in the Grove’ today (saturday) or next saturday you will have the chance to take part in the SHP workshops that are on there.
A screen printing press is set up and peeps can get involved in the process of printing groovy designs onto t-shirts.
Mucho fun will be had at Mutate so if you aint visited, for gawds sake, get your buttocks down there,
The workshops start at 1pm and go on to 5pm.

Im getting my self around, I found out that my work was shown in a feature in the sunday times about Freddie Achom, owner of a super luxury night club in mayfair. always a pleasure to know the paintings I create end up in funky and groovy pads.

As well as the Freddie dude gaff, I also saw another of my works in actor Sean Pertwee’s abode
….God damn Im great.

Tatler magazine, the supersonically posh (we are considerably richer than you) lifestyle type magazine rolled into my studio yesterday to do a photo shoot., Twaz rather bizarre having a pretty little model throwing loads of “Yeah baby give it to me” type poses in my ultra scuzzy freezingly cold, creative shit hole.
The shoot is for a feature on six contemporary artists that will appear in Tatlers march issue, the model was pictured in each studio space clothed in various expensive looking frocks and such, most fun and wacky tingalings to behold.

The awesome Dante Small’s art career is launching to the stars after selling his first picture at the preview night of Sesame art galleries latest group exhibition. Rumours are the art buying master of the universe, Charles ( I really think I am a God ) Saatchi snapped up Dante’s latest works on paper, this young artist is one to watch.

All the good work that happens through the art initiatives that the SHP charity organize, can be seen on a new flickr page.
I know I keep drumming on about it, but all these projects happen only because of the hard work put in by individuals that give a shit, creative people who aren’t just in it to wank over stupid fucking bullshit money all their lives, but have genuine beliefs that we can all use our time and talent to give back.
These art projects only exist through the money that is raised by exhibitions and art events that have been put on such as Hope in life and the recent Represent show, there is no government funding or nothing.
You can see by looking at the photos on the flickr site, this ain’t no bullshit waste of time initiative, The workshops are genuine, progressive and constructive events that help people realize that they are entitled to express themselves creatively, and that the creative voice in side them is to be valued, is that a bad thing?
‘Art doesn’t help people, people do’. well thats what these art workshops are all about, people helping other people through the creative arts.
Anyways, with the money raised from the last art show, a new screen printing press has been bought, which means that those that attend the projects are able to do just that little bit more than before.
So I just want to thank all the wonderful artists that have took part in past events and have helped make good things happen. I hope that in the future we can get some more artists to take part in all the groovy projects that will be going on.

The exhibition at the Blackrat Press is a grand one, you can check out what Ken Russel thought of the show in a article that appeared in the Times newspaper the other day, esteemed words from a wise old wacky man.