My second oil painting this century, created especially for this exhibition is available to view and purchase along with a limited run of only 20 prints via adrian@ukcolab.com or the chopperchunk gallery site.
UK COLAB 20/20 OFFICIAL LAUNCH SHOW
10 SEP – 10TH OCT
Please contact ADRIAN directly via email adrian@ukcolab.com for more information about print or purchasing the original one and only piece.
http://islingtontribune.com/article/artists-inside-story-of-prison-closure
Bod Jamen curated the Holloway show, which put a formidable group of people together. The big cats were on display. A good 150 turned up on a Tuesday. The highlight for me was meeting the two front line folk that ran the Ringcross center. True to the bone of what caring and help in the community should be about. Delores, a lovely 3 decades in the trenches of social care ran the entries and had invited a group of young people from the local teen homeless center. I had the privileged of showing them around, talking art and hopefully allowing them to feel welcome.
Susan Merrick, a proper artist and front line fighter was there in full force.
Politics aside, a good night with a good heart.
I do need to learn to look less spooky and weird in front of the camera…
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What a fun and fabulous night.
June first, 2017.
Not many photos were taken as there were no phones out. All the beautiful people were just digging art, talking laughing and having a good proper time. Like the good ole days, with good ole folk. Nothing is going viral here.
Gilded Pleasures was launched a week before the UK went to the polls, Katherine Griffin/Slade Alumni, Eleanor Kelly and I put on a great show of fine art, pop art and solidarity. June 1st the first Thursday of the month at Flaxton Ptooch. Such a hidden gem of a venue, right next to Rio health’s SPA! a tardis of delights.
Sexy, detailed skulls, larger than life sinister red cats and Frida Kahlo were all present. Katherine’s detailed fine art paintings are a beautiful wonder to be enjoyed.
Of all the wonderful things, the best for me was, Bubs. SuperBubs. My little lovely. As much as i had the superficial yearning of the art crowd and my bubble world to see my show, having my little bubba chubba walking around, seeing all the new 26 pieces on the wall and seeing all the people there to see it, made my heart sing. Mummy, did you make all this?? he was dead proud. From the confines of painting in the recycling hallway, to having stuff on a wall.
As it was half term, he could stay up a little bit later. Katherine put up a beautiful oil painting in tribute to Frida Kahlo, so i brought my Sinister Saint icon print. The one that has bubs as a 4 year old, mirrored repeatedly as my heart. Katherine’s and my work echoed and complemented each others in a really wonderful way. Big shout out of creativity and commitment to Elle Kelly, what a fabulous curator she is.
(Side note) I took that photo of him on my 39th? birthday, we’d been in the hospital all week and finally we were home, I was painting thru my Juarez period, about all the women that had been murdered on the border town of Texas and Mexico. When I initially did the pieces the number of women killed was at 279, when Amnesty International picked it up a few years ago the body count was at 408. So I was into Día de Muertos
So I said, let’s paint ourselves as day of the dead, or celebration of life I like to think. I set up a mirror in the front room, and a camera. He covered his whole face in black. He loved it.
and we took pictures of us. I had my saturday class at the slade. I turned it into something beautiful.
It was my first proper show since 2012 solo show (Vibe Bar, Protesters & Pussies). Nerve wracking as hell. I’d started just started teaching full time with young people excluded from school, like a PRU but more creatively and structurally aligned. So, i didn’t know if I could pull it off.
In an abstract way I wondered why? beyond the art therapy dynamic and painting out my nightmares of why the fuck I do it. Why bother? Whose demons are these? Besides the fact that drawing and painting are the things in life that bring me such joy and connectivity. 2.(The constant attraction to brains and the mind in art. ) But just before it was all hung, I couldn’t help but think, why put it out there? Why try to sell it or make a name for yourself? Why even try to sell it? What narrative are you trying to play at? (then the usual insecurities of, your not that good, what the hell are you doing?). -another time.
Gary came out to see his brilliant brain on display. Good times. I am thankful I have an amazing life long friend that can send me MRI’s of their brains at short notice.
The show runs until July 1st. Prints and more prints are available. If it suits your budget, cheaply framed white on white Ikea framed originals are available for a song. Will look great in any living room…
It was a lot of work and an interesting exercise. Has got me thinking about the next steps in my journey. Installations, stuff that can’t be bought, just experienced. The Art world is a weird beast. I’m still a total outsider, but i find it a tad fascinating.
Thank you all for coming out to the opening night. Was great to see you. Big thanks to Conrad and Michael. Especially Conrad such a wonderful individual. and all my friends. Having friends there was the best. My BFF was so comfortable and included. That’s what matters. My BFF sat and chilled. I left before the night was over. Fight the Power and much love to all.
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http://www.flaxonptootch.com/press/?p=1
https://www.katherinegriffinart.com/
have you seen her? Well, no, not the golden center of an MRI scan of a rocknroller buddhists brain, but the artist known as K Griffin https://www.katherinegriffinart.com/
Katherin Griffin I’m talking. The work Katherine creates is a little bit beautiful and magical and a much needed fantastical escape for the senses. I could say with a smattering of dark undertones that ground us in the day to day sublime of existence but then that would sound like some kind of artsy word salad, and I will be having none of that. thanks.
Check out https://www.instagram.com/katherinegriffinart/
In just over a week, Kaz and I will be joining forces and bringing our world of colour and beautiful ideologies the to Flaxton Ptooch gallery in NWS.
PV June 1st from 7pm, show runs until July 3rd. NW5 2JT
But more than skulls and cats w be.
Cats and skulls are fine fodder for the internet, but also on display will be the recent politically inspired posters to put in your front room bed-sit.
Like the above mentioned cunt waffle for example.
Many of these posters (a bakers dozen) now seem tragically out of date, made a mere less than hundred days ago. Now I am nearly looking back fondly on the fact that the worst thing POTUSatire had done was gone on about casually raping women, seems like the good ole days now that billions have been secured to the Saudi Arabian military lets kill everyone party exchange. Oh happy days.
Or John Peters, one of the first pilots to be paraded on Iraqi TV as a POW…
So, get your big boots and your dancing shoes on. Join the Special K and I-Sinister C, for an opening night to support the arts, let down your hair, raise a glass to the little people.
Much love.
CW
(That’s country and western if you don’t know my name)
Charlotte is the fourth generation of committed self taught female painters in her family and has been honing her skills since her teens.
CW Stubbs enjoys bringing beauty to subjects that are often disturbing or uncomfortable. Using vibrant colour to seduce the viewer and often stark uncompromising imagery, she challenges our perception of the narrative truth from multi media sources. www.cwstubbs.com
Finally, the sinister pussy tryptic is complete!
Here they are in their individual glory, all roughly 5 foot by 4ish….
et voila! still need to be signed before they are sold!, but an accomplished fete. x x
four by 3 feet, aCRYlic.
sinister pussy 