Tattoo Parlour at Hackney WickED 2010

Tattoo Parlour at Hackney WickED 2010

Come, visit us in the parlour and take art away with you on your arm...



The Tattoo Parlour on Stour Street on the sunday of the Hackney Wick Festival. 


The Tattoo Parlour last year was showcasing 4 artists who live/work within the artist communities around Hackney Wick and East London.
Started originally by HAGs, [homerton artist group] the tattoo parlour idea, developed last year into a portable way of spreading and viewing new commissioned artwork that is in the form of a tattoo. The artist's work links to ideas of tattoo use, whether in alternative culture, as a traditional marking or a conceptual look at body adornment. 


Illustrator Barbie Lawrie's Tattoo Design.
Barbie is an illustrator who works on a variety of projects often using characters that evoke a dark narrative.

‘Wings’ by Jessica Akerman
A purely decorative tattoo design using the loaded symbolism of wings.
My practice is drawing based, both two and three-dimensional. It is often highly decorative and playful, usually using tactile techniques such as collage andmarbling. I have an ongoing interest in folklore, local history and Englishness, especially the accompanying clichés and perceptions. 

‘Joseph Steele is my favourite artist’ by Joseph Steele
The artist was inspired by a branding exercise on eyelids. In his words “Maybe someone else could get 'My least favourite artist is Joseph Steele'”
Joseph Steele paints with explosives and makes porn films. 

‘Untitled shape’ Steele uses linear designs without an obvious meaning. With this tattoo you can keep adding the same shape to your arm. ‘If getting a tattoo is for some a way to set ahead a new stage in their life, they can just add another one of these to their arm, because they might as well.’

For more information google him.

Justin Fitzpatrick
The work is based on a recent painting called ‘Throat’ part of a larger series of paintings based on sound and anatomy, using musical instruments to try and convey specific emotional states.

31st August 2010
Peanut Factory, Fish Island, Hackney Wick

'There are no hills in Utica'

'There are no hills in Utica'

 Go-Kart still I [Speed] 2010

Go-Kart still II [For Sale]2010

















Go-Kart still III [Men looking]2010

















Utica 2010

This project was a journey around Utica, USA exploring the streets with a go-kart. On one level it was a way to get a reaction from the locals and to travel the streets finding a way to develope more of a relationship to the town physically - literally bumping up and down the streets - and socially.

It was a responce to small town America, and of course particularly Utica with its high rates of unemployment, depression and large amounts of empty buildings. Visually an large amount of people were always hanging out on yhe streets and sitting on their doorsteps. It was the opposite of the prosperous vision of America that its often thought of abroad.

In New York State just 5 hours by train north of New York City is the city of Utica. Industry has been moving out since the 70's, and the people followed it, so now it feels hollow and desolate.

The Go-Kart was made from a rough sketch without any purpose built materials and measurements. The effort of making it move makes the people moving it work hard and puts strain on them, encouraging them to work physically with it, and therefore the street to get it shifting. It became a tool to create a performance or narrative, with no expected outcome.

A few narratives emerged. Firstly the above photos of Becky fixed up in freezed still shots as though in the moment of go-karting down the slope, with locals looking on. Although 30, she looks like a little girl traveling down the rundown street. Surrounded by 'for sale' signs and fenced off buildings. Secondly we made a film of the 2 hour long journey around the town, recording any of the locals strange comments and insights when we passed them; "Does it go on water? Next you'll tell me its fuelled by ecstacy" and "Is that baby wagon?"

Emic/ Etic Performance Night

Emic/ Etic Performance Night

EMIC/ETIC
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Visual Art and Performance Night in an arch in Bethnal Green. Organised by Sadie Edginton.
A night of ritual based visual art and performance; from religious metaphor to community celebration. A loosely conjured concoction of tradition and ceremony that manifest in the individual, group action and destruction.


The Pinata before it was smashed.


The crowd being invited to finish off the Pinata.


The entrance way, pass through the 'Confessional Box Office', write down your confession for entry.

Artists Involved:

JMF Casey and Emile Bojesen Collaboration: Short Philosophical Play
Sadie Edginton: Pinata and Barn Dancing/paper wrapping
Daisy Macdonald: Projected Film
Jessica Piddock: Pinata
Joseph Steele: Bible extracts readings.

Review: http://the-art-journal.blogspot.com/2011/02/artch.html

Thursday Feb 24th 2011
7-10pm
Arch 11 Gales Gardens Next to Bethnal Green Tube
ARTch.org.uk

Sculpture: Morning Lane

Sculpture: Morning Lane

 

Foam and paper lightweight temporary sculpture.

Images taken in Space Studios 205 Morning Lane. A former Hackney Demolished 2010 for new school buildings.

2009-10





This group of work is part of an ongoing theme using local materials in conjunction with forms echoing architectural parts of buildings around the area. The foam was from a sofa warehouse on Homerton High Street. I found it the first week I moved into the studio, it just seemed be perfect.

The forms are based on sketches I did of repetitions and patterns in industrial buildings in old street, and surrounding Homerton and Hackney Wick where I started to live and work in 2007. The Lesney Toy Factory on the bank of the marshes, as well as the architecture of 205 Morning Lane all had a strong effect on me,as I realised when I placed them side by side. As well as profound feeling iminent loss of that sense of the place. Of it being on the cusp, of it all being tenous and about to disappear, which of course both buildings now have.
There is a very strong sense of change in the borough now, geared up to the Olympics, but two years ago the place felt more uncared and out of site, but also with a very interesting landscape of disintegrating buildings, alleyways and decay.

The materials are temporary and rougly put together, the bright colours giving a fake bubblegum perspective of the doom and depression of the area, which moves on up to Well Street. A gloom that is nostalgic of the brutalist buildings of the area, that is wiped out but actually has a pervading atmosphere that now is gone, is missed.

Morning Lane Studios:
SPACE has now vacated Morning Lane studios, which was leased to SPACE from 1999 to 2010 by Hackney Council. The building, which was an ex-adult training centre, contained 28 artist studios over three floors, and is now due to be demolished.

Designed by Stillman and Eastwick-Field (SEF) this elegant, Brutalist building has a rich industrial history. There was a campaign by the Hackney Society to register the building as listed to prevent its demolition.

Tattoos at Glastonbury 2011 for Copperdollar

Tattoos for Copperdollar at Glastonbury 2011

This year at Glastonbury, I took my Tattoo Parlour idea further by incorporating it into the Mexican day of the dead chaotic feista in a new venue called Copperdollar in 'The Common' area of Glastonbury Festival.

To be found amoungst the gravestones at 11pm- 4am this venue stayed open all night as skeletons came to life and bewitched the audience with an interactive feast. I was painting people to become part of the skeleton tribe. As the audience blend with the performers, a mass of skeletons perform a spooky dance in unison.

This is a sample of the tattoo made from the Copperdollar logo.

Note:
I am not involved in venue concept or tattoo design, but was my idea to create tattoo as part of interactive event and to spread Copperdollar outside of the venue.

'HOMErton' HAGs First Group Exhibition

Some photos from HOMErton...

   

At the top is Jessica Jang's Drawings in the kitchen, then Amy's drawings of sleeping people in the hallway, then Julia's felt-tip house dangers piece in the bathroom, followed by my sculpture 'If tower blocks were made from icecream'  in the conservatory. Above is Una's photographic Norwegann Death Metal and landscape project to the left next to Clive's future pavilion work to the left in the sitting room.

There were 20 artists in the show, all members of Homerton Artists group; a loose network of people doing different projects.

Homerton Artist Group Exhibition

In Jan 2009 me and Penny Tristram, another local artist founded HAGs. We meet every month at the Elderfield Pub in Homerton, and have slowly built up a group of people, talking about ideas and projects. This is culminating in a show in my house in May. There's 20 artists involved and the theme is home- there is work inspired by local cottage industries, future ideas of the area, childhood inspired painting performance to surreal music in the garden, and locally brewed beer. Check out www.homertonartistsgroup.co.uk.

These images are from my road, where new flats are planned to be built in these old carparks- a space lined by a mirrored wall mosaic that will go.  House Image by Jessica Jang.