I can’t say that I’m a massive fan of Halloween. My dad once took me door to door around our estate wearing a white sheet to play my guitar – even then I had a pretty innovative sense of self promotion ( don’t think bad of my dad at this point as this scam was my [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Spooky Times Again
October 28, 2008Christine Krol
October 27, 2008
In 2005, New York artist Christine Krol exhibited a series of miniature collages at the Abaton Garage gallery . The collages were constructed in Nat Sherman cigarette boxes.
Krol’s imagery has been borrowed from all forms of printed matter: Old textbook illustrations depicting nostalgic, cheerful Americana and hopeful scientific visions of the future along side fragments [...]
Andy Fung
October 21, 2008
Andy Fung is an artist & musician. He lives and works in Cardiff
Andy’s paintings are ambiguous references to youth and contemporary culture within Gallery and street contexts. Employing an automatic drawing process the work grows organically from chaotic marks causing the imagery to vacillate between several positions so that no one definition will ever suffice. [...]
Pulco – Cactus Fog
October 14, 2008Cactus Fog was my first attempt at a Pulco album. I’d been writing songs during Derrero’s stay at Twin Peaks recording studio up in the Breacon Beacons in 1998 and I was keen to just record them on a 4 track like I always used to.
Something of the records vibe was taken from an article in a Sunday [...]
Marie Blanchard
October 13, 2008Marie paints and draws, she lives in France and runs an ace blog/magazine called Shining Magazine.
Check her out at the following places
Marie Blanchard website
Myspace
Pulco’s new stuff – Triceratops
October 10, 2008I’ve been working on a new album of late. It’s going to called Triceratops and I think it’s going to be a bit different to my previous stuff – less guitar perhaps !
As always, recording sessions have been sneaked in here and there among domestic hardcore but I’m getting there I think ! If only [...]
Fiona Rae
October 9, 2008
Fiona Rae is a British artist
She was born in Hong Kong and moved to England in 1970. She attended Croydon College of Art (1983-84) and Goldsmiths College (1984-1987).
She was one of the artists in the seminal Freeze exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988. Her work was subsequently bought by Charles Saatchi and shown in [...]
La la la la la – Pancakes
October 9, 2008
As requested by +A …….
David Salle
October 9, 2008David Salle is an American painter and leading contemporary figurative artist.
He’s been on the ’scene’, if you like, since the 1980’s
His paintings comprise what appear to be randomly juxtaposed images, or images painted on top of each other with deliberately ham-fisted paint handling. His subject matter tends toward the popular, the gratuitous, and the pornographic, [...]
Pulco at the museum
October 9, 2008The National Museum of Wales is running a project next year where musicians based in Wales are being invited to visit a museum and then produce a musical response to its collection.
I have been asked to create a piece for the Slate museum in Llanberis and in fact I made an appearance there on Monday 6th [...]
