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In Focus….
Each month Felix focuses on a particular creative person. This month we look at the life and work of fine art photographer, archivist, curator and radical sex activist, Ajamu. Read more…
Exploding Heads by Duncan McAfee.
Felix’s Choice
Nel Burke is a collage artist and gatherer and re-purposer of old photos and printed material.;
‘I use what is already in the world – what has already been manufactured, and rescue and re-use a tiny fraction of what would be destroyed. I realised recently, that (almost) everything I use, is a photograph, taken by someone, mediated through a camera lens, whether an image of people in the street, or a photo of a fifteenth century painting. Then, highly processed: exposed on film, treated with chemicals, printed on paper, itself processed from trees, saturated with ink, and mass printed for (usually) a very short life span (one day?
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Shaun Caton’s ebook of dark collages
‘My art is a form of channelling. I’m like a sort of conduit or cosmic funnel through which all these wriggling images flow. I have no notion of what I’m doing as such, but it just occurs in this way, as if by magic’
Shaun Caton is an internationally renowned performance artist, painter, collagist, animated film maker, writer and cultural lobotomist.
See Shaun Caton’s series of Night Life collages
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- Cool World and some thoughts about my paintings
Cool World Duncan McAfee. Talking about Ralph Bakshi’s animation: I first chanced on Cool World, some time in 2016 and it changed the way I approach painting. Cool World is Ralph Bakshi’s wonderfully flawed 1992 feature about a cartoon dimension that exists in parallel with the real world. The premise of the film is ridiculous, - Collage
Collagist, Nel Burke talks about her influences and the Instagram collage community Art history tells us collage started with Picasso and Braque, and flows through the twentieth century via Surrealism, Schwitters and Dada: these are the established threads through time, the links which connect collagists through to the twenty-first century. Tearing and cutting, fracturing, displacement - London’s Housing Crisis
London’s Housing Crisis by Felix H. Wilkinson ‘Make me wanna holler’ is a line from Marvin Gaye’s seminal tune Inner City Blues. It’s as relevant today as it was in the late sixties, but for different reasons. At that time our cities were suffering from decay and urban blight. Today, issues of affordability and inequality