Counterwork

23.04.10

New Feature

New ‘Print this page’ feature on all works. Go to your favourite work and click on ‘Print this page’ for an instant hard copy. Images aren’t print quality however, but might be useful for reference.

29.03.10

Steampunking

Our costumes for ‘The Great Exhibition’ Steampunk night at Scala, London.

The above image was taken by Kim Erik Hang. See more of his work here.

21.03.10

My Harshest Critic

I heard my harshest criticism at the private view of Collusion on Thursday night.
I was taking a few photos of the work while people were milling around and noticed that there was a very bored-looking little boy sitting on the floor between the projectors. I think he was about 10 years old.

‘I’m bored. Can we go now?’ He said.
‘Not yet, be quiet.’ Said his mother. She was studying the work quite intensely.
‘I’m bored! You said there’d be a light show?’
‘This a light show, look at the projectors.’
‘It’s not, it’s boring!’ He waggled his knees and flopped his head side to side.
‘Why don’t you try looking? Try using your imagination?’ His mother asked.
‘I have looked. There’s a door, there’s a door, there’s a door and there’s another door. There’s four doors. I’m bored!’

I must try harder.

01.03.10

MEP WIP Day One

Photos from the first main day of the Market Estate Project.

07.12.09

The Palace

Some images from bonfire night at Alexandra Palace.

15.11.09

Spectacles

I’ve got glasses. I had my eyes tested last weekend as I’m having trouble seeing things in the distance. I can now tell which bus is coming.

01.11.09

EVIL ROBOT INVASION

I went on a Halloween pub crawl around London last night. The theme was EVIL ROBOT INVASION and this was my costume (a couple more shots here). There were nine of us in total, all dressed as evil robots, invading various pubs until the small hours. We attracted quite a lot of attention and a lot of tourists wanted to have their photos taken with us.

25.10.09

Secret Tate Tour

Yesterday we went on a little tour of Tate Modern’s old oil tanks. These are the three tanks that were once used to store oil when it was a power station. They are huge. All the metal from the tanks has been removed but the huge concrete structure that housed them remains.

During Tate Modern’s second phase of development (see here) they are going to be turned into exhibition spaces - and very good spaces they are too. There are currently a series of John Baldessari films being shown in them but I wasn’t allowed to photograph them.

Afterwards we went to look at the Miroslaw Balka piece ‘How It Is’ in the turbine hall - It’s huge and monstrous and very good - like walking into the gates of hell, or some kind of inter-dimensional portal.