APOCALYPSE BOUTIQUE

I have another exhibition and it's coming right up. In fact, as I type, a large van filled with paintings, prints and associated impedimenta is heading towards Stoke Newington in London. This exhibition is called Apocalypse Boutique and is is a strange kind of sample of what I've been doing for the past eight or nine years.
So there are some pieces from the very first exhibition I ever did, the one when I was so scared I wore a wig and a pair of specs to disguise myself at the opening night. Also on display will be the first screenprint ever produced by the Slowly Downward Manufactory, as well as a lot of prints that have sold out from general sale.
Some of the work is painted, some printed, and some a combination of the two. Although there are other printing techniques employed here, a lot of the work was screen-printed at the Slowly Downward Manufactory.
The Manufactory was established in 2004, and consisted initially of a second-hand screen-printing table, myself, and Comrade Winstanley in a freezing cold warehouse.
The idea was to produce limited editions of my artwork, and with the stupidity that was to become the Manufactory's hallmark, the first print to be produced involved the accurate registration of eleven colours, including the industry standard cyan-magenta-yellow-black, as well as a colour that I specified should look 'like dead flesh'.
It was so cold that gloves were required to prevent our own flesh from adhering to the freezing metal of the screen-printing table. The result of this first foray was the print Such a Pretty House, a reworking of the artwork I'd done some years previously for the Radiohead single 'No Surprises'.
Many years have passed since then, and the Manufactory has moved from a freezing cold warehouse to a series of inadequate, unsuitable and inconvenient premises until finding a new home for 2014 that has radiators and even a flushing toilet; precisely the sort of arrangement that we should have sorted out ages ago. Never mind, never mind.
Despite the many obstacles and handicaps we have had to overcome, we have done a fuck of a lot of work; filling galleries in London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Rotterdam, to name four that I can remember.
Anyway, in London's ever-surprising Stoke Newington you can see various examples of what I have painted and what the Manufactory has produced over the years. I hope you will like it.

The exhibition runs from 2nd November until 1st December, at the Hang-up gallery, and the opening 'drinks reception' is on Friday 1st November, between 6pm and 9pm.

Hang-Up Gallery, 56 Stoke Newington High St, London N16 7PB.
Telephone: +44 20 3667 4552
Email: info@hanguppictures.com
Web: www.hanguppictures.com