Oh Bondage! Up Yours! My piece in the latest issue of MacGuffin
I’ve returned to the excellent MacGuffin magazine with a piece in their latest issue, which adopts the theme ‘The Chain’.
Tag: Belmacz
If I Was Your Girlfriend: A Jam – companion newspaper about Prince’s life, work and legacy is a funky delight
Arriving in a kinky sealed purple polythene envelope, If I Was Your Girlfriend: A Jam is the new publication which has been issued as a companion piece to last spring’s exhibition at London’s leading edge art space Belmacz.
My Design London in the Evening Standard
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 […]
Eight Young Photographers: David Parkinson’s mould-breaking contribution to the 1971 exhibition
Eight Young Photographers was the third exhibition to be held at the newly-opened Photographers Gallery at its original premises in Great Newport Street in London’s West End. The gallery opened in January 1971 with a group show entitled The Concerned Photographer featuring, among others, Robert Capa, and followed that by simultaneously staging three exhibits, including a display […]
The Conformist: Last few days of this glittering celebration of great British non-conformity from Emma, Lady Hamilton to Punk Rock and beyond
“So great to see an eclectic range of images and objects that challenge norms and play with moral codes” The Courtauld’s Documenting Fashion blog The Conformist – artist Paul Kindersley’s celebration of great British non-conformity of expression – is now entering its final few days. If you have the opportunity, I recommend a visit to […]
Jah Wobble’s soundtrack for The Conformist: Big Youth, Blake, Buzzcocks, Joni, Miles, Stooges + much, much more
//Clockwise from top left: William Blake; Jah Wobble; King Tubby; Miles Davis; The Stooges; Jimi Hendrix Experience// An essential element of the current group exhibition The Conformist is the companion soundtrack selected by Jah Wobble. This blends Wobble’s take on William Blake’s Tyger, Tyger (from the great 1996 album The Inspiration Of William Blake) with […]
Available now: Limited edition prints of two breathtaking David Parkinson works
David Parkinson The Continental Bentley, Club International, Volume 3, No 5, 1974 Photo satin print poster Ed. 20 + 5 AP Printed 2016 £90 VAT INCLUSIVE David Parkinson Untitled Entry for final year project, photography course, Regent Street Polytechnic, 1970 Photo satin print poster Ed. 20 + 5 AP Printed 2016 £90 VAT INCLUSIVE “David […]
‘Truly unusual…mighty and utterly unabashed’: Rave reviews for The Conformist + an interview about the Punk London map for Huck magazine
The Conformist – artist Paul Kindersley’s group show about British non-conformity at Mayfair’s jewellry/art space Belmacz to which I contributed – is garnering rave reviews.
The Conformist: A vibrant, eccentric, chaotic delight – miss out at your peril!
The Conformist – artist Paul Kindersley’s counter intuitively-titled group show about non-conformity of expression from Emma, Lady Hamilton and Aubrey Beardsley to Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Julie Verhoeven – opened with a bang last night with a private view at Mayfair’s art and jewellery space Belmacz.
‘Punk will come back in new forms always because the attitude is so very, very good; it’s to do with people doing things for themselves, controlling their own methods and their own culture’: Malcolm McLaren 1982
This is an extract from an interview with the late Malcolm McLaren in October 1982, conducted just after he and design partner Vivienne Westwood had shown their fashion collection Punkature. As the promulgator, initially through music and fashion and then into other forms from film and art to design and media, McLaren defined Punk as […]