Hey. And hello. Wotcha. Welcome to Raw Art, this blog post in particular. This thing.
And welcome to the latest thing – the all-new Raw Art Song Structure print. As seen [above] at the Grrrr! shop in July. Wooh - it's the structure of a song. Could be any song. Or could it. Are all songs the same?
No.
It's the song structure of Thriller by Michael Jackson - well, sung by Michael Jackson and *danced* by him. Written by Rod Temperton.

I think Michael Jackson is the time I realised there was a thing called famous.
("Michael Jackson". Like it's a time – "what time is it?" "Michael Jackson". Anyway.)
Not like "person on tv opens church fête" famous. But global, life-shattering, unenviable famous. I was a kid, and the other famous people up 'til then - Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, John Lennon - they were all dead. But Michael Jackson was alive and famous. I think he was on one side of a Smash Hits poster, with Boy George on the other. It was at this point that I realised that Boy George was famous too. And alive. And my world did not turn upside down quite, but my eyes were open.
As said, I was not very old at the time. I am older now. And I'm selling this print.
Limited edition of ten. Digital print on Hahnemuhle paper, A3. I will sign it and blah blah. Any other questions – if sensible – use the contact page.

28 September 2016. This is the unofficial Week One of the Raw Art Christmas.

Hello. Time was, about two months ago, Raw Art had a shop as part of Grrrr! We miss that bloody shop, we do. We miss the people strolling in, having a chat, almost buying a "Failure" pencil and then not. We miss being surrounded by the art. We miss our lovely artists, the light of NW5 as day faded into night, stopping by the Gipsy Queen on the way home for a quick pint.... Raw Art misses having a shop. WE REALLY MISS THE SHOP. Just thought I'd put it out there. WE MISS IT.

Sorry.

Anyway, onto matters more urgent and pressing. And first person. I've been looking at the postcard-sized Low for a few months now, it's sitting in the Raw Art Towers kitchen. And it socked me in the jaw - why the hell is not square? And slightly bigger? I've not done that much David art since January – you may be aware there was a lot more of it before. Felt too trite, too icky, too maudlin. But, listening to the albums over the months I still come back to Low. One of my favourites. Perhaps the favourite? I don't know. Bit bleaky-bleak-bleak at points but it's 2016 – man – so it fits.

I've made a new Low painting for this season, and it's 20 x 20 cm now, and I hope that it makes sense.



If you would like one of these they are painted as multiples and limited to twenty. Only £60 including the P&P. Acrylics on canvas board. Expect some biscuits on a similar theme in the next few weeks. Maybe.

If you would like a Low mug we still have a few left.

16 September 2016

31 August 2016

Grrrr! – Raw Art and Pandora Vaughan – is preparing for the Clerkenwell Festival 28 August 2016.
We're going to have a Seaside Summer Art Special including NEW punk rock rock plus Television watermelon slices for sale [other New Wave band names will be available].

There'll also be mugs, Summer pencils, Headache Jewellery, Hot Motel prints, badges and bags. It's a bit like the Grrrr! shop. But as a stall. In East London. On A Sunday. In The Summer. With a Seaside theme. And a dog show.

So far, Raw Art has painted some business cards on blocks of wood...
 ....and is in the process of making a new machine thing with an arrow on it.

Yay – it's the protest biscuit print! Now available for a limited time only, edition of 50 - features 12 of the protest biscuits - as seen in our Grrrr! shop and online.
As you may be aware, the day after the EU referendum, Raw Art sat in the Grrrr! shop and felt despondent. There's a piece about it here.

The biscuits are a protest,  placards of sorts. (They are sitting in my fridge at the moment, coldly continuing their protest.)
There's the "Fuck Gove May Farage Johnson"; "Broken Biscuit Broken Britain"; "NHS"; "I Don't Understand This At All"; "EU" plus more. If you would like a ltd print hurry – they're going fast. Will be sent rolled in a postal tube – P&P included.


The print is A3 on Hahnenuhle German Etching paper. Price only £30 including postage. 2016. What a bloody year.

Breaking Up on Re-Entry This is to tell you about our last "do", which we're calling "Breaking Up On Re-Entry", because we're like that. Polish your purse, clean your spectacles and sharpen your elbows – on the 22 July between 5-8pm we at Grrrr! are showing up, selling out and clearing off... [Well we've got until the 29th but you know how it is.] This is the Grrrr! End of Shop show. We've got AMAZING artworks from all our super artists, plus some more art we thought we'd fit in. And we've got stuff we hadn't even dreamed about when we first opened - the protest biscuits, Truth and Beauty pencils, Good Spell stars, keyrings and even more paintings. We've had a marvellous time at Grrrr! It's been cool. It's been mental. We're looking to continue n all at some stage and at some space – some scientists are working out the logistics. OK, well we are. You know.