BATTLE SPONGE: 'A Film We're All Writing' coming soon to a Peckham venue near you...

'What we learned from Harriet Tubman and PJ Harvey', screenprint and monoprint on paper, 2016

'Molly emerges from the smog (China is smouldering)', 3 layer screenprint and monoprint, 2016

'"Did you wanna ride without a word in between?" He can understand she needs a minute to breathe and to sew up the seams, after all this defeat', monoprint and painting, 2016. SidAlf greets Lone Cowgirl on the Swaglands frontier as the duststorm subsides and the future lies bare and ahead.

'Blood & Sand', digital print on fabric, 2016

Come and see all these pieces, and 35 more! Tomorrow at my show opening at The Peckham Pelican from 7-11pm. Get yourself down to sweet South London and bask in the warm hazy glow of Peckham Thursday evening. Beers, cocktails, pizza and coffee galore for your personal enjoyment. If you're lucky I will dress as a skeleton.

Expect: SCREENPRINTS, PAINTING, GLITTER, FABRIC WORKS, GARMENTS, TEXT AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH FOR YOU TO ENJOY AT HOME TO YOU HEART'S CONTENT

This exhibition presents scenarios, characters and themes from a visual eco-‘epic’ about environmental degradation, how it came about and continues to be enabled by an ongoing domino effect that started with Colonialism.

SHOW DATES: June 1st - 26th
OPENING NIGHT: June 2nd (7-11pm)
SLAM FRIDAYS: June 24th (7-11pm)

The story is set in a conceptual land called ‘The Swaglands’ which is, for reasons including the artist's own misguided idealism, very much based on the Australian Outback. This fictional but reality-inspired location makes use of some irony I am about to relate to you: The ‘red heart’ of Australia
includes a geographical area called Utopia – a concept we all learn about in literature at school, and definitely at art school. However nobody seems to know there is a real place called Utopia, where social and environmental conditions for Aboriginals are horrific. It is ironic then, that in education – particularly in the areas of creative problem solving and
awareness-raising that are art and literature – we are not even made aware of the plight that befalls indigeneity across the developed world (and undeveloped) when it is sitting right under our lucky noses and underpinning our most valued cultural and entertainment concepts.

Pop and cult cultural aesthetics and references are employed to
communicate what are essentially pop and cult culture (mainstream and of mass implication and appeal) issues of environmentalism and decolonialization. We all are implicated, in cause and effect.

Specific dynamics within the 'cultiness' or the 'popiness' of such cultural scenes or poducts have been identified. These dynamics themselves are also referenced as they provide a template for cooperative living.

And here are some more studio photos of me getting things ready...

Some of my SWAG garments, and a lovely conceptual piece I made - the best things about ambiguous haughty contemporary art trends is I feel I can get away with using all the crap from my studio bin. I really do have the prettiest trash.