Found Some Old Artwork....
I have just found this under the bed. I think this was conceived as a non-tribute to Sarah Lucas, a work ("work"?) made with cigarettes, called "cunts", made about 1999. This also includes cut-out words from a newspaper article, which must have been about the art world (from wot the nouns say). The words include "Joan Crawford", "sexual people", "Andrea Dworkin and dull and boring food", "Hitler", "Christy Turlington", "gay parents", "my brother", and even "my fishmonger". All of these things considered cunts or cuntish. Strange is the addition of "Alexander McQueen", who was obviously not a cunt, but must have been included in the butchered article.
This artwork is now a bit bashed up. It's been in a plastic bag for a while. The "c" looks like a "g", the cigarettes are a bit flat.
It still smells quite nice, if you seen what I mean.
Detail (my wife)
Detail (sexual people)
Detail (my brother)
It could almost be... a... Julian Schnabel???! No!!! Oh never mind.
...
Auto Destructive Soap Sculpture
The International language of Soap Sculpture needs no introduction. However, I must add that as a craft it's much practised in Thailand and Korea where the soap-fruit interface is blurred and sometimes is truly hazy. This time I have not been working in kumquaats, but in an auto-destructive soap thing.
Yes, it may last a few years. Yes, it may need a lot of dusting. Yes, you could put it in one of those "deep" frames but lo - it will not last forever. Nothing does. And it is crafted from something domestic and is easy to purchase. Soap. I love soap. It's cheaper that bronze.
Yes, it may last a few years. Yes, it may need a lot of dusting. Yes, you could put it in one of those "deep" frames but lo - it will not last forever. Nothing does. And it is crafted from something domestic and is easy to purchase. Soap. I love soap. It's cheaper that bronze.
This is a punk rock soap sculpture from about four months ago. It says "punk rock" and is melded from white bargain soap.
Here are the some currently on sale, in a Fluxus-style multiples soap-off.
"Yes"
"No"
"Don't Know"
"Hell Is Other People"
Each measures 9x 5.5 cms and is crafted from white unperfumed soap. If you want to buy one they are limited to ten per design. They will be packed carefully and sent first class. Each includes membership to the Hangover Art Club.
"David Bowie and Iman"
If you would like your own name/word/phrase - "The Jam", "Casa Bevron", "Kylie" etc – carved deftly onto a piece of soap please use the "your own phrase" PayPal option and let me know your choice of words on the PayPal invoice under "instructions to seller".
SPECIAL OPTION - Three for £30 inc P&P. Makes a good present.
#livedraw Eurovision 2014 - Charity Lucky Dip - NOW SOLD OUT
Hello fine people, feral animals and woodland berries –
You may remember, times past. Ie last year. And the year before. #livedraw was the name and it involved me drinking a lot of vodka, drawing every Eurovision act in the Grand Final and tweeting them all in real time. It was fast. It was furious. It was, towards the end, a mess - but it was groovy (maybe) and it made Eurovision a little bit more... um, #livedraw.
This year #livedraw lives on (and instead of vodka, it's gin) – it woz not dead, it woz only sleeping. Or drunk. Anyway, this time I am going to do a Lucky Dip. If anyone likes the pictures – and they will be drawn on top quality Fabriano watercolour paper with fancy Schminke watercolours mate so I do hope so – then you can buy one of them for the princely sum of £5 plus £1.50 postage (UK – bit more for Europe/Rest of the World postage etc). It's a lucky dip so you don't know what you'll get but hopefully it will be good. Good-ish. Some might be a bit splodgy.
All the proceeds will go to the Great Ormond Street Hospital. The PayPal button will go "live" when Eurovision starts on Saturday 10 May, 8pm BST. There are 26 acts so there will be 26 pictures. Once they're gone, they're super gone.
Thanks. Any questions do ask me, using the contact page.
UPDATE: SORRY, ALL PICTURES HAVE SOLD OUT...
But we have raised £140 for Great Ormond Street!
Here's the eurovision winner, Conchita Wurst, representing Austria.
For a Picasa portfolio roundup, featuring a complete 26 paintings, click here.
Thanks for your interest. The Twitter was a mighty fine place to be that night. If you want to make a one-off donation to Gt Ormond Street you can by clicking here.
Tweets about "#livedraw @sian_superman"
Brian Eno - Textured Hands Artwork
Hello you people. Today I have for the wiggly fingers of Brian Eno, Roxy Music era, in his huge turkey feathers and tight keks. Brian here has probably cut his own hair - he stands, waiting for those fingers to create some electronica. Not sure how ambient he's got yet, but he does hold a cigarette. Maybe he's brooding - thinking Mean Stuff about Bryan. Who can actually tell? What is life actually about? No one is sure.
Textured hands - detail.
Eno on a plinth.
Face - detail.
Little Brian, little thoughtful Brian. He's in a world of his own. This celebratory canvas measures 21 x 15 cms, just under an inch deep. It is painted in acrylics, acid yellow background and varnished. If you would like one they are limited to just ten. UK price only £35 (see drop down menu for other destinations). Please allow 14 days for delivery as the paintings have to dry fully before dispatch. Prices include first class postage.
SOLD OUT
It's Here - the Robert Wyatt Screenprint - SOLD OUT
This edition sold out. New edition may be available at a later date.
Hey there people.
It has arrived, the Robert Wyatt "Let's Fuck It Up" screenprint.
Robert Wyatt, glorious. Looking down, ready to screw up the rules and do a really long jazz drum solo or sing about pigs in a hut. Renaissance gold embellishments on the surround. A majestic A2 size, 420 x 594 mm. Will dominate and produce ethereal goodness from any wall.
Just arrived, looking out of the box...
High-quality digital with gold screenprint overlay on heavyweight 310gsm Hahnemühle Art paper. Taken from an original watercolour/gold leaf painting. This edition is limited to twenty, so get in there quick.
Detail
SORRY SOLD OUT
Yoko Ono Artwork - Fly
Hello Modom. And gent. And child of the future.
To celebrate Record Store Day and indeed all the other thousands of days to follow we have a new Yoko Ono artwork, fresh from the brush. Yoko Ono – the conceptual high priestess of shrieking and transcendental banshee rock n roll.
This is a really good record, I don't need to go into it here – this is not the time – but needless to say it was only right that it got painted. The original is a super-imposed photograph; white packaging. Some of those bits are painted here.
To celebrate Record Store Day and indeed all the other thousands of days to follow we have a new Yoko Ono artwork, fresh from the brush. Yoko Ono – the conceptual high priestess of shrieking and transcendental banshee rock n roll.
This is a really good record, I don't need to go into it here – this is not the time – but needless to say it was only right that it got painted. The original is a super-imposed photograph; white packaging. Some of those bits are painted here.
Yoko super-imposed. Probably quite thirsty (cup on right). Then re-imagined in acrylics.
Detail.
"I don’t believe in doing things over. When I was painting one day it suddenly occurred to me that there is no line that you can go over. if you go over a line, the line that you went over is a totally new line." (Our Yoko from her website.) Think I have stayed in the lines though.
A Raw Art Logo
And thus...
The bleeding heart of Raw Art 2014. Background painted in yellow, the colour of sunflowers. And cheese. "Raw Art" like a challenge, a statement - and yet also a lament, an epitaph.
Raw Art a bit like a cartoon. Blinking in the summer sun.
The heart - the red old drippin-y heart,
Here is the Raw Art Logo as an actual thing, painted on canvas, in acrylics and high glossed. There are small marks along the background made by a gritty paintbrush to express ire and malcontent. Or kittens. Either way.
On the wall.
On another bit of wall.
In the hand.
In a bathroom cabinet.
This painting is a limited edition out of ten and is painted on 21 x 15 cms canvas. All items are made to order so please allow for seven days before dispatch. Remember, each purchase now includes membership of the Hangover Art Club, ie you get a special card. And new possibilities.
PREVIEW - Robert Wyatt Watercolour
Here is a preview – a framed Robert Wyatt watercolour painting including gold leaf detail.
Mr Wyatt is God, as we know, so he looks down, God-like.
Am looking into the practicalities of printing gold onto Hannemuhle paper. Do watch this space – Limited Edition Prints For Spring 2014 should be available soon.
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