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Brighton to London: The life of a commuter

26 Saturday Oct 2013

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Art, Brighton, commute, covent garden, Food, hogarth worldwide, london, southbank

LondonI’ve just finished week two of my job as a proofreader at Hogarth World Wide, and I am shattered! Here’s why:

5:30am – Alarm goes off

7:14am – Get the train from Brighton to London Victoria

9:00am – Start work

6:00pm – Finish work

Sometime around 7:45pm – Get home, eat and watch TV

10:00pm – Sleep

And repeat!

Exhausting right? I don’t even have time to eat in the morning so I have to take my cereal or porridge on the train! On the plus side I’ve got a lot of reading done – it’s quite nice to just have 2 hours each day where I have nothing to do except chill out.

Breakfast at 80mph

Breakfast at 80mph

But then there’s the sweaty rush through the underground with all the other working folk and the frequent feeling of being a sardine. However working in London has its perks – my office is conveniently located on Shaftesbury Avenue so my lunch breaks are often spent wandering Seven Dials and Covent Garden…

The most extravagant Jack Wills

The most extravagant Jack Wills

This place smelt so good!

I just wanted to smell ALL the tea

One day I even went to Christie’s art gallery with some colleagues…

'Ghost'

‘Ghost’

Work itself is going well and I’m gradually getting used to all the programs and procedures. Everyone’s been really friendly and we all went for drinks last week. I had my new starter induction this week where people from all the different departments told us what they do and about all the work they’ve done for various blue-chip clients. It still amazes me that Hogarth grew from 14 employees to about 1000 in just 5 years. Afterwards I was just like: ‘Wow, I work here…this is such an awesome company!’

Mulled wine and Big Ben!

Mulled wine and Big Ben!

And now that I have a full time job, I really appreciate the weekends. Last night I went for drinks with Laura who also works in London and we had a lovely evening wandering around the Southbank. After a couple of cocktails at Opal Bar we browsed the ‘Real Food Market’ and nibbled on free samples of cured meats, mulled wine, Moroccan chicken and then we shared a giant burger. Hopefully the first of many adventures in London…

I feel so grown up!

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Riot in a Jam Jar

26 Sunday Feb 2012

Posted by Yoga Panther in 'The Badger' articles, Arts, Visual Arts

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Art, Banksy, duchess of cornwall, James Cauty, jar models, KLF, Media, Riot in a Jam Jar, student riots

There’s a new Banksy in town…but this guy works in jam jars. Former KLF rocker turned artist James Cauty is up to his old, extreme tricks. ‘Riot in a Jam Jar’, his exhibition shown at Ink_D gallery, Brighton, reaches new levels of controversy, with graphic and disturbing scenes involving protesters, well-known figures and the authorities placed inside mere jam jars.

His radical and darkly comical art works, which he calls “small world re-enactments”, show imagined riots, including Take That being beaten up by riot police. He also depicts snap shots from genuine public clashes such as the student riots and the recent looting affair. His fresh, witty take on the news is reminiscent of programmes such as Mock the Week and 8 out of 10 Cats.

The 1:87 scale jam jar models are all exquisitely constructed and hand painted. His work is physically accurate down to the smallest protest poster trodden into the ground, even the lights in the police vehicles flash. It is the implicational accuracy in some of his pieces which is lacking, for example ‘The ritual hanging of Nick Clegg’. Here we see the Deputy Prime Minister being executed by an angry mob who were furious at the Lib Dem leader’s U-turn on tuition fees.

His jam jars can show twists on actual events, for example, ‘Of wiv their ‘eds’ involves The Prince of Wales about to be beheaded by a mob during the student fees protests as the Duchess of Cornwall watches from their royal car. This shrewdly blends fact and fiction as Charles and Camilla were caught up in student protests last year as they travelled to the Royal Variety Performance. Charles actually had his car pelted during the protests, but Cauty has taken the incident and given it a far more distressing outcome.

In the tiny Take That display, the tables are turned on the group after they used riot police in their Brit Awards performance in February. The group were joined by dancers dressed in riot gear with batons and shields when they performed ‘Kidz’ at the O2 Arena. In Cauty’s artwork however, Robbie Williams is depicted lying on the ground bleeding, while other members of the group look on as an officer hits Mark Owen. The artist said: “In the small world re-enactment, the police see it as trivialisation of their work and retaliate by giving the band a well deserved kicking.”

 

‘Jimmy’ Cauty first found fame as one half of KLF, before going on to form ‘The Orb’. Cauty has since gained notoriety for stunts. He himself was involved in a famous incident at the 1992 Brit Awards when he opened fire on the audience with a fake machine gun. Later, he dumped a dead sheep at the after show party. He also burnt £1million on a remote Scottish island.

Cauty said: “The jam jar represents containment. Violent disturbances served up in manageable doses like news bulletins – complex situations reduced to mantelpiece ornaments and souvenirs. The works in A Riot in a Jam Jar focus on, and amp up, situations for instant consumption.  These tiny acts of violence serve as snap shots of a greater and vastly more complex reality.”

“In real-life riot situations, the media focus is always on the sensation, violence on the TV screen; tag lines and one-liners are the currency. The works in A Riot In A Jam Jar mimic this TV news approach. They focus on, and amp up, situations for instant consumption. These tiny acts of violence serve as snap shots of a greater and vastly more complex reality.”

That’s one way to contain a riot: anarchic artwork in a jam jar.

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25 Saturday Feb 2012

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If you’re interested in inspiring quotes, photographic pictures and all things arty, you’ll love my new tumblr blog:

http://truthbeautyfreedomloveandstuff.tumblr.com/

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Turner Prize 2011

25 Saturday Feb 2012

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Art, George Shaw, Hilary Lloyd, Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Turner Prize

Article from 16/05/11

ImageAnother Turner Prize, another host of spectacularly bizarre creations. Year after year, this prestigious award in the intriguing world of modern art has baffled the general public. This time is no different, with the bookies’ favourite being a suspended ball of plastic. Pushing the boundaries is what these artists do best, but their work may leave visitors wondering where the art actually is.

Among the shortlisted are: painters Karla Black and George Shaw, sculptor Martin Boyce and video artist Hilary Lloyd. Prize juror Katrina Brown, said the list was not representative of “one school, or cluster, or movement – there is every medium in the mix and it has a diversity and maturity about it”. Although there are two painters this year, don’t get your hopes up for anything traditional. Karla Black counts lipstick, bath bombs and nail varnish among her unorthodox materials, whilst George Shaw paints landscapes in the kind of enamel paint used for decorating model aeroplanes.

38-year-old Black’s assortment of cosmetic products deployed in large installations looks more sculptural than painterly. Her piece ‘What To Ask For Others’ may appear to be just a large pink plastic bag hanging from the ceiling, but is a strong contender for the prize. Shaw, 44, with his personal juxtaposition of subject matter and material, lies on the edge of tradition. He used Humbrol enamel paint to depict the landscape of his childhood, a housing estate in Coventry. He admits of the medium: “It was quite perverse as I was making the paint do something it wasn’t designed to do.”

Boyce, 43, creates sculptural installations which evoke urban landscapes and often reference the modernist design of the early 20th century. His creation ‘A library of leaves’ looks more like a torture chamber bedstead. Lloyd, 46, uses multiple projectors and video screens to show scenes of construction sites, as well as close-ups of the naked male form, which in their entirety become a kind of sculptural installation.

The prize is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art, and comments have already been pouring out. Modern art seems to have the marmite effect on people’s views, with those who adore it and those who point-blank reject it as they don’t comprehend how it is ‘art’. At least all the works are in the physical realms; last year’s winner was an eight-minute recording of a folk song played to an empty room.

The whole prize is turning its back on London for the first time in its 27-year history. The work will be displayed at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, from Friday 21 October 2011. Channel 4 is sponsoring the prize fund of £40,000 and a programme featuring the live announcement of the winner will be broadcast on 5 December 2011. If you’re eager for a justification of the bewilderingly eccentric works, watch out for a series of short films on the shortlisted artists on Channel 4 and More4.

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