~Espira

SPECTRUM 2D
Group Art Show @ the Others
featuring work by Espira, Pearl Bates, Alexis D. Gaillard, Takayuki Hara, David Hilliard, Tom McDougall, International Nobody, Masayuki Suzuki, Ali Tareen.
Opening FRIDAY 12TH September 6pm
show continues until 5th october.

The Others
6 and 8 manor road, Stoke Newington, Hackney
London, N16 5SA
info@theothers.uk.com
Train - Stoke Newington
tube - Finsbury park (then bus 106)

FREAKY FRANKIE

The Others
Top floor
6 and 8 Manor Road
London
N16 5SA


PRIVATE VIEW 11 JULY 6PM – LATE 2008

Curated by Infinity Bunce

Will feature artwork by Infinity Bunce, Espira, Francis Potter, Donkey Head and Jon Purnell, Ben Roberts

PRIVATE VIEW EVENING WILL ALSO FEATURE: Performance Art Raul Pina, Ben Roberts Film Jon Purnell
Music/Bands-Tommy and The Juice, Lonesome Cowboys from Hell.

This show is not for the faint hearted. Curated by Infinity Bunce, who previously set up the Dorian Gray Project, it is a show made up of artists that explore and use art in a literal way to express their own visions of the world. Espira, being brought up as a Mormon, explores how to deal with the liberty of restriction by conveying religion art and fashion in his work .Mixing it up and concluded with a cocktail of bizarre images that make the ordinary excitable, to make a position that triumphantly turns the mundane into the bizarre in his paintings and prints. The Opening night will feature performance artist Raul Pina, whose work involves elements of primitive rituals, archetypes and contemporary technology and has a tendency to curate bewitched souls in contemporary society. The performance on the private view evening is called 'Bombastic Impromptu 2007'.

Ben Roberts presents the Benjamin Street Gallery, his mobile gallery/performance piece that will be placed at the entrance on the private view night. The gallery, his van and place he photographs from, converts into an art space featuring his impressionistic yet iconic urban landscapes that reflect and document the way we usually see London, in motion. As Ben puts it, “From where I see, I can not always stop.”

Infinity’s artwork also captures urban culture. However, unlike Ben's moving landscapes, Infinity carefully depicts how young people live through multiculturalism. Painting images of young people who deal with their identity, fears and nightmares, and exploring how brands and consumerism affect youth culture. She explores gun culture and popular imagery. Her large MDF paintings are a mix of spray paint, acrylic and painstakingly applied multiple layers of household paint, which are created and built up over a period of time, and created drawing on her influence from street art. Infinity marks a similarity to Espira, as her paintings almost have a cartoon style to them.

‘Donkey Head’ is a comic that absorbs a junction between memory and dreams and the space that mystery inhabits. It's also a great read, and features a great big vacuum cleaner toward the end. Comics need more enormous vacuum cleaners, and this doesn't fail to provide. Espira challenges the role of the porn star blending in the sexy with the mundane. These images have a disturbed sense of humour to them brought about due to their cartoon sense.
He was described by Voltcase Magazine as ‘the Punk Rock for the art world’.

Francis Potter is a New Zealand artist presently living in London. His work is concerned with the figure. However, Potter uses the figure as a collage caught up in many situations. Having lived in India, he projects many colours that suggest a warmer climate and there is a sense of dehumanization of a figure that is never a total part of its landscape. His paintings suggest an element of alienation. He mixs, overlaps and weaves his way through a pattern on intricacy which is all done in graffiti essence of dripping painted collage, to give an outburst of paint that cannot be ignored. Potter stills his travels into painting whereas film maker and performance artist, Jon Purrell, is captured on film with his travels around the London art scene, creating thought provoking pieces about the art world itself. Purnell’s controversial performances include ‘Haunted Tate’, which is a performance at the Tate Modern of seven white-sheet clad ghosts. They stalk around the Rothko room before being ejected by security. The work highlights the fact that though art pieces are seemingly inanimate, the spirits of the artists is always close by. His work also contains an element of humour, which has underlying political overtones. During this exhibition a screening will take place on the opening night, and through out the show, of a selection of his performances that have taken place throughout London. His performances are captured on film and shown through television screens and a projector.

'FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN'

ART BY ESPIRA

@ HOXTON Sq Bar and kitchen

August – October 2007

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Opening night SUNDAY 12th AUGUST 2007 From 7pm

followed by BOOMBOX Club 8pm – 1pm FREE ENTRY
(please arrive early )
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HOXTON Sq Bar and kitchen
2 Hoxton Square, Hackney, London, N1 6NU
Nearest Tube OLD STREET

VISION MAGAZINE Interview

I have a three page interview in the May edition of Chinese Fashion/culture magazine VISION.
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TESCO DISCO

@ Hedges & Butler, 153 Regent Street, London
THIS WEDNESDAY 18th APRIL 6pm-2am
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Espira Exhibition
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HUSKI
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From bassist with her sister's band, cult rock act Queenadreena, to singer and songwriter with the Mediaeval Baebes (whose latest single she has written), to guitarist/vocalist with much respected rock band Vertigo Angels, Maple Bee is an accomplished singer and songwriter. 2004 saw the release of Maple Bee's solo album "Chasing Eva" ("the feline electronica of Portishead, the tremulous intimacy of Tori Amos and the off beat avant folk of Kirsten Hersh" – Q magazine / "Inspired, enchanting stuff" – Independent On Sunday). "Around The World In A Day"-like the album was self written, produced and played.

The Ape Drape Escape
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Hand picked from the cream of washed up child stars and inbred royal fodder is this nations saving grace. For the baggy, ill fitting youth of Great Britain, comes the tailored cut of nervously stitched rock and roll. The swamp of degenerate apes beating the Jesus out of the art of ability, like Cole Porters bastard child after a night on the tiles. The new sound of Sheffield throbs and pummels, it doesn't stand and wait, it lurches at you like a drunken uncle. A visceral soup of subtle innuendo and palatable bad taste, we are the last word in uncultured cool. Leaving behind the pathos of heavy gutted super stars, and their shoe gazing protégées, who snivel their way through the rule book of predictable pap pop and self censored nonsense. Head clash and knees tremor as the past is pulped and reshaped in to the new sound of music(without Julie Andrews of course), the future my friends yes the future of rock and roll is The Ape Drape Escape.

Dead Pixels
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Dead Pixels are three black spots on the bright screen of a big city. Peddlers of sleaze and man-handlers of groove. This three piece have an engagement with the bright lights, and its on their own terms. Made up of Danish chanteuse Lone Blomhoj, Diesel u-music award winning producer Gram "Kleiko" Gaughan and Peter "Bateman" Simmons, Dead Pixels give sexy a new sensibility. With pulsing bass, scuzz -punk guitars and genre blurring production layered over honey fed yet razor-sharp vocals they admirably avoid the usual sonic pigeon-holing, preferring instead to trade in sleaze, swagger and trade mark beats.

Russell Dean Stone
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"SUPER KID" = VOGUE