I wanted to go and check out the (recent) Architecture Association Summer Show and upload lots of images to encourage Londoners reading this blog to go check it out. That’s what I wanted to do. But then I didn’t manage to make it over until the last day. My inability to make it over earlier [...]
Archive | July 28, 2009
Zak Smith Interviews Anthony Lister
The latest artist to be interviewed by Zak Smith on The Rumpus is Anthony Lister. Here’s an excerpt:
Zak Smith: Can you grab one or two of your paintings and describe the situation that inspired it?
Anthony Lister: This piece, titled HOLY MOLY (mixed media on canvas, painted 2008), is based on a story about Britney Spears’ sister having a baby. I initially painted a picture of a pretty young woman with a baby spitting lottery balls out of its vagina as if to suggest that children are a metaphor for the Holy Grail. It is a painting about fertility, miss-guided youth and predators within social networks and in the media.
You can read the full interview here.
Ronald McDonald appears at Banksy show / Banksy print
Ronald McDonald has made an appearance outside the Banksy Versus Bristol Museum show. Sitting precariously on a ledge next to a whisky bottle high up above the front entrance he looks far from the official line of ‘Chief Happiness Officer’ for the company.
And if you want a chance of getting the ‘Donuts’ print by Banksy then 12 noon today (London time) is the last time you can register your interest on picturesonwalls.com
