Author Archives: Russell Jones

https://anchor.fm/russell-jones7/episodes/supercrit-definitive-e1alt7g For my presentation I will display my triptych of scraperboard inspired by the Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible album.The triptych is apt because the front cover of the album is by Jenny Savile and presents a painting of an obese woman from three different angles as a triptych. The Holy Bible was releasedContinue reading “Presentation Supercrit 2021”

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/martin-kippenberger/martin-kippenberger-biography Words in this article are taken from Yusef Sayed essay found in https://227lears.com/2021/02/10/unconventional-redemption Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist and sculptor known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona. “Art is, in fact, always viewed after the fact,Continue reading “Martin Kippenberger”

Except for a few identifiable syllables and words, [or] thebeginning of a sentence or phrase, the drawings take the form ofstylized but illegible writing in lines that often cluster to suggestarchitectural silhouettes or urban skylines. What would cause awriter to turn to a mode of drawing that looks like writing? […] Thedrawings share many ofContinue reading “Manual for Practice 2021–2Art Practice 3, BA Fine Art, Level 6Seminars for ‘Performative Reflection’”

Holly Graham is a South London-based artist, working with print and audio. Her work examines how memory and narrative shape collective histories. Bound up in this lies an interest in recording-mechanisms, documents, evidence and processes of editing – concerns rooted around a commitment to responsible story-telling and amplifying quiet histories. Recent exhibitions & projects include:Continue reading “November 16th Holly Graham”

http://www.jeremydeller.org/TheUsesOfLiteracy/TheUsesOfLiteracy.php The Uses of Literacy, 1997 This was an early curatorial project, an examination of a kind of folk or vernacular culture, so it was a lot of things at once. I handed out flyers inviting fans of the Manic Street Preachers to make art for an exhibition that was going to be staged forContinue reading “The uses of literacy”

This video which came out in 2002 was inspired by Erwin Wurm one minute sculpture.RHCP have an artistic influence in their music.Their cover for I’m with you was by Damien Hirst: Monarchy of roses video has drawings by Raymond Pettibon the punk zine artist. https://open.spotify.com/episode/13XY1lT1UPF9lkvFoXWRWy?si=aoAZNTnQQIell0NfLtFd5g

Nothing else sounds quite like ‘4st 7lb’. Even in the context of an album on which each track is a significantly different, dark riff on the post-punk formula, this song is one of the most unique Manics efforts of its era. Bradfield’s superb guitars create much of the bleak but perversely exciting atmosphere, and Moore’sContinue reading “4st 7lb”

For most Manic Street Preachers listeners, ‘Faster’ should need no introduction. Ranked by the band as their finest ever single, centrepiece of their most acclaimed album The Holy Bible, focus of the most controversial Top of the Pops appearance ever, and described by NME as “one of the most exhilarating pop singles of all time”, the song is always precededContinue reading “Faster”

Michelle Williams Gamaker works with moving image, performance, and installation. Her practice is often in dialogue with film history, particularly Hollywood and British studio films. Restaging scenes to reveal their politically problematic, imperialist roots, her work is a form of fictional activism to recast characters originally played by white actors with people of colour. SheContinue reading “Michelle Williams Gamaker 09/11/2021”