Paul Gorman

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And… I’m back!

Well, it’s been a while but I’m posting here again with takes on the usual, unusual and out-there from the world of visual culture.

There’ll be some changes made over the coming months and also some exciting announcements in regard to new projects but meantime here are two events to which I’m contributing in the next couple of weeks.

Tomorrow (Wednesday 16 September) I’m taking part in Facade Charade, a conversation about the relationship between architecture and fashion with writer/curator Priya Kanchandani and architects Sheila O’Donnell, of Irish practice O’Donnell + Tuomey, and Zaha Hadid’s Melodie Leung.

And on Sunday 27 September I’ll be in conversation at the annual countercultural fest Convenanza with publisher Lee Brackstone, major domo of the towering White Rabbit Books imprint, about the Granny Takes A Trip book we produced together last year as well as my earlier book The Look, which was admired by Convenanza’s figurehead, the late Andrew Weatherall.

Details on the Activities + Events page.

What About Dancing? Three short films about grief at the Garden Cinema on May 14

I’m really looking forward to What About Dancing? at central London’s Garden Cinema on May 14.

The evening comprises screenings of three short films about grief made by artists/filmmakers/writers Tara Darby, Annie Frost Nicholson and Lara Haworth:

• Into Your Light (Darby and Frost Nicholson 2019)

• All The People I Hurt With My Wedding (Haworth 2019)

• Grief Is A Hungry Ghost (Haworth and Frost Nicholson 2023).

Afterwards I’ll be mediating an in-conversation and Q+A with the three filmmakers on their shared and individual approaches, as well as their current project The Triumphant Return of Harriet Frost.

Do come along. Details and tickets are available here.

Here’s the trailer for All The People I Hurt With My Wedding:

 

My playlist for the Fandangoe Discoteca opening at Canary Wharf next week

//Annie Frost Nicholson with the Fandangoe Discoteca. Pic courtesy of anniefrostnicholson.com//

Next week sees the opening at London’s Canary Wharf of artist Annie Frost Nicholson’s Fandangoe Discoteca, the mini-disco installation where we can shake out our grief and help maintain daily mental health – the programme covers all intersections of grief from bereavement to climate angst to political rage to break-ups.

The design of the kiosk was inspired by De Stijl and Ettore Sottsass and holds up to eight dancers at a time.

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‘Free your mind and your arse will follow’: I’m featured in Mr Porter’s 5 men on style in their 60s

I’m currently featured with four stylish blokes who are also in their 60s talking about clothing choices on menswear hub Mr Porter.

//Lagos striped shirt Post-Imperial; trousers Acne Studios; shoes Bass Weejuns. Photography Tami Aftab; styling Catherine Hayward//
//Souvenir jacket Kapital; Chinos Alex Hill; monkey boots Denson; bag Mr Freedom 1970. Photography: Tami Aftab; styling Catherine Hayward//

The article is headed Experience Required: Style Lessons From Men In Their Sixties and for the accompanying shoot I wore pieces by brands Acne, Alex Hill, GH Bass, Denson, Kapital and Post-Imperial.

The other participants are fashion entrepreneur Charles Aboah, model and vintage upcycler Herbie Mensah, designer/director Patrick Kinmonth and illustrator Stewart Walton.

Writer Fedora Abu put the feature together and the talented team includes photographer Tami Aftab and stylist Catherine Hayward.

Read the full story here.

Shipwreck Of The Fake Fairies: New limited edition bookwork from Paul Kindersley

British artist Paul Kindersley has produced a bewitching small publication which is available now from his Twitter account.

Shipwreck Of The Fake Fairies is 12 pages with 10 b&w illustrations and continues the themes of Kinderley’s recent work, including the performances Fake Fairy Fantasies and Ship Of Fools and his film The Burning Baby.

Limited to 100 in A5 format on 300gsm paper, each is signed and hand numbered.

Copies of Shipwreck Of The Fake Fairies are £10 each inc p&p.

For yours DM Kindersley at twitter.com/PaulKindersley.

Shakin’ Stevens’ band The Sunsets sporting ultra-rare versions of Malcolm McLaren’s early 70s Chuck Berry design

Back cover of the group’s 1973 LP released by Mint Records. No photo or design credit.
Front cover. No photo or design credit.

I’m grateful to Peter Stanfield, media and arts professor at the University of Kent, for alerting me to these great images of members of Shakin’ Stevens’ backing band The Sunsets sporting T-shirts designed by the late Malcolm McLaren for sale in his shop Let It Rock at 430 King’s Road in the early 70s.

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Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band: I’ll be in conversation with Harriet Vyner + David Stephenson at Gazelli Art House on February 5

Swingeing London, Richard Hamilton, 1968. Etching and aquatint with embossing, 54 x 74cm © Richard Hamilton. Courtesy Gazelli Art House.

On February 5 I’ll be taking part in a conversation about the significance of the late art dealer Robert Fraser at Gazelli Art House, the London gallery currently hosting Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band, the exhibition of works by 13 of the cutting edge artists he represented between the 1960s and 1980s.

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