The new issue of international interiors magazine apartamento includes my feature about British artist Duggie Fields and his extraordinary mansion flat in inner west London neighbourhood Earl’s Court.
Earl’s Court Elegance: My piece about British artist Duggie Fields’ 50 years at his amazing abode in apartamento #21
Apr 27th, 2018
Furniture Pimp: Unique pieces from the collection of Jim Walrod, connoisseur and floating free radical
Apr 18th, 2018
//Catalogue cover featuring detail of Tête Cultivée, Nicola L, 1970//
As befits a sorely-missed man of singular style and taste, the catalogue for the forthcoming sale Furniture Pimp: The Collection Of Jim Walrod is an absolute treat.
//Right: Walrod at home photographed by Collin Hughes; Left: works featured in the forthcoming sale//
Caroline Coon: The Great Offender’s first solo exhibition
Mar 27th, 2018
//World Hotel Room from The Brothel Series, Caroline Coon 1998, Oil on canvas, 122 x 153cm. Photo: Richard Holttum//
“For this solo exhibition to happen in the same year that we celebrate 100 years since some women were legally considered human and therefore entitled to vote is deeply significant for me. The formation of my feminist project always meant that I needed to be a figurative painter – this made me, right from the start as an art student in the late 1960s, a ‘girl’ outlaw in the then Greenbergian-ruled art establishment. I am what Linda Nochlin called, in her 1973 essay, a Realist Criminal.” Caroline Coon, 2018
Liverpool’s The Gallery is staging yet another must-see exhibition: the first solo show by painter, writer, thinker and countercultural figurehead Caroline Coon.
Entitled Caroline Coon: The Great Offender, it is curated by Martin Green and James Lawler, who have selected 29 of Coon’s works and are mounting the show as part of their ‘Perpetual Provocateurs’ 2018 season.
David Harrison: Fuck Me
Feb 27th, 2018
//Exhibition flyer incorporating One In The Eye (Mobile Glory Hole), David Harrison, 2012//
“Harrison embraces age-old symbols and fanciful myth, irrational beliefs and exuberant sexuality to name just a few in order to speak vividly about our own time and provide a different perspective on the disciplines of painting and sculpture”
Fuck Me is the title of the new show by great British artist David Harrison at Lungley at east London’s The Haggerston.
My Design London in the Evening Standard
Jan 24th, 2018
I am the subject of the My Design London page in today’s edition of the capital’s Evening Standard newspaper.
In Liz Hoggard’s piece, I talk about some of the places which help make this the greatest city in the world, from our local patisserie WA Cafe and picture framers For Art’s Sake to Mayfair jewellers/art space Belmacz, Hackney Road’s Two Columbia Road and M. Goldstein and the galleries Richard Saltoun and Chelsea Space.
Copies of the Standard are available free to commuters on Greater London’s transport system. The piece will be posted on the Standard’s site soon.
Run To Me: A quizzical visual exchange between Sam Jackson and Derek Ridgers
Oct 12th, 2017
//Front, Run To Me catalogue, 25 x 20cm, 44pp//
//Unconditional Love, Sam Jackson, 2017//
In the exhibition Run To Me – opening tomorrow at Old Street’s Charlie Smith London – curator Faye Dowling presents a quizzical visual exchange between painter Sam Jackson and photographer Derek Ridgers.
//First part of my essay faced with Tanya, The Batcave, Derek Ridgers 1983//
The Story Of The Face in British GQ
Oct 6th, 2017
Out today, the November 2017 issue of British GQ includes a 10-page feature on my forthcoming book The Story Of The Face: The Magazine That Changed Culture.
For Jim Walrod – ‘Decoration is the danger, function is the idea’: The On 1st experiment in conceptual art retailing
Sep 27th, 2017
** This post is dedicated to the New York design thinker and doer Jim Walrod, who has passed away. Just a couple of weeks ago I mentioned my intention to post about On 1st to Jim over dinner. Of course, he knew about the store but was excited to see what fresh info I might have turned up. I’ll write about Jim when I have collected my thoughts; wherever he is, I am sure Jim will join us all in the necessary proclamation: Fuck Trump**
//At the entrance to 1159 1st Avenue at 63rd was Sven Lukin’s two-tonne illuminated sign. Photo: Bert Stern//
//On 1st interior including displays of Roy Lichtenstein wallpaper and Gerald Laing plates. Photo: Bert Stern//
In conversation this summer, British artist Duggie Fields revealed to me that, during a sojourn in the US in 1968, he had been in line to work at photographer Bert Stern’s “architecturally mind-blowing” art store/publishing house On 1st in Manhattan’s east side.
Unmade Up… Enlightening vignettes from Edward Bell’s unusual acquaintance with David Bowie
Sep 26th, 2017
//When they met, Bowie was scrutinising this portrait of Sex, Seditionaries and Jubilee superstar Jordan Mooney at Bell’s exhibition Larger Than Life//
“I, too, had to maintain a certain degree of detachment, and indeed to want and expect nothing of him; the paradox will always remain that, if David Bowie had not been David Bowie, then David Bowie and I could have been friends.”
Edward Bell, 2017
Edward Bell first encountered David Bowie when the rock chameleon turned up unexpectedly at a private view for the British visual artist’s first exhibition in 1980.
They last spoke in 2013, a few years before the musician/performer’s untimely demise. In the intervening period Bell and Bowie hung out in London, Venice and Los Angeles, collaborated on record sleeve projects and maintained sometimes sporadic contact, via a Swiss letter drop address and out-of-the-blue phone calls.
A bastion of splendid non-conformity: Brian Griffin’s photos of Duggie Fields at home in the late 70s
Aug 18th, 2017
//Duggie Fields at home, late 1970s. © Brian Griffin. No reproduction without permission//
//Duggie Fields’ apartment, late 1970s. © Brian Griffin. No reproduction without permission//
Among my current projects is an article for Apartamento about the great British artist Duggie Fields and his flat in London’s Earl’s Court.
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