In April 2019, I curated an exhibition of Social Art at SEAS gallery in Brighton. Today, I was looking at photos from the show, and I realised I didn’t post much about the show on this, my artist website, though I did create a special website for the show (see ArtoftheReal.net, link below). So here…
07 July 2021 – A portrait of Julian Assange being targeted for his journalistic work, is on show at London’s prestigious Mall Galleries online exhibition, Figurative Art Now (FAN), which opened today. The inclusion of this artwork is remarkable because the mainstream media in the West has blocked all news about Julian Assange from newspapers,…
Air Conditioning – my novel-format reflections about the dystopia we all live in – is published today! See link at the end of this story for where to get a copy, including free sample of the first part. It’s a work of speculative fiction that pretty much wrote itself over the past year or so.…
A new digital artwork from and oil painting I made in 2016. My muse and I engaged in an intersubjective performance, playing with ideas of gender stereotypes, initially reversing the gender of Atlas supporting the world, and with the male gaze in mind. I played the role of director, she interpreted the ideas. I took…
I’m delighted and excited! My latest digital artwork has been selected for Mall Galleries new show Figurative Art now. I’m offering the work as a giclee print 120x165cm in an edition of 5. The show is online 7 July – 20 December 2021. The FAN show invited art made during the year of COVID lockdown.…
Blake’s Original Urizen (Act of Creation)
Inward Gaze (Assange 2 years) (Europa): photo of oil painting of European nude sitting on an African stool with eyes hidden and downcast. Reflection from the glass gives the impression that the naked body is behind glass under observation, maybe shamed. This is a photographic reworking of my painting, which was a comment on the…
Before you decide whether to take the vaccine or not: listen to Robert F Kennedy Jnr debate the pros, cons and legality with Alan Dershowitz – a long listen at over one hour. But Robert Kennedy is probably the world expert in the holistic approach to vaccination – and it will definitely challenge some of…
Even though itās not talked about in the English Mainstream Media, people all around the world are noticing the repression of journalists in the UK, and the Stalinist torture by process of Julian Assange. Assange is facing extradition to the USA where he is likely to face solitary confinement for the rest of his life,…
15/08/2020 Can this be a English justice? The defendant is not legally under arrest, had not seen ānewā charges (which were the same as the old ones), nor met with his defense team for 5 months, the prosecution did not turn up, journalists couldn’t [get access to the court], and proceedings were interrupted by screaming…
I recently saw Robert Stuart’s video, about the faking of video evidence of war crimes in a BBC Panorama documentary of chemical attacks in Syria in 2014. It seems a long time back, but we need to take note, because the UK is pursuing new wars (Iran, Yemen, Venezuela) in the name of humanitarian intervention.…
20 years ago, anybody who said the British Empire was a good thing, would have been ignored as a relic of the Imperial past. Of course, such rose-tinted romanticising ignores the genocide and repression needed to maintain the colonial system. Now, neo-conservative politicians openly call for revival of colonial empires. Gavin Williamson’s 2018 newspaper interview…
Boris Johnson says we shouldn’t “edit and censor” our past by changing our monuments. He is wrong – monuments are not, like statues in a museum, mementos of the past. They are a dynamic part of a living, evolving social culture. They need to be renewed. This story discusses what monuments mean in our society…
Ever wondered what’s going on in the world, behind the smokescreen of endless COVID19 scare stories? Yes, COVID is a nasty disease, but the mainstream press is covering it to the exclusion of all other news. As context: COVID19 has claimed 37,000 lives in the UK. The 2017/18 winter claimed 49,000 ‘excess deaths’ (additional to…
It’s a bit unreal writing this. I was raised in Rhodesia, a colonial country, during the liberation war. I grew up in Zimbabwe, a liberated country falling into despotism. I have seen a lot of persecution of journalists. But I never believed such persecution could exist (at least not for long) in the UK –…
Video archive from 2008, when Drone Killings started in earnest. Worth watching for the argument that if we don’t kill them first they will kill us. Classic Game Theory from the 1950’s. Its self fulfilling prophesy – so we go kill them first and thieir children gonna come for us for sure. It’s also an…
