Painting the hoarding continues to attract attention and comments from passers-by. Most people want to know what is going on. Some think that local businesses have paid for advertising space on the hoarding and that I am writing up slogans, […]
A police patrol car stopped today and asked me what I was doing – I had been picked up on the CCTV cameras along the road. I told them, and still rather unconvinced the two policemen went across to the […]
Friday was the second day of painting the text, another fiercely hot day. Jon and Stuart from the gallery continue to paint the coloured sections of the hoarding. I am being assisted by Lee Gentry, a recent graduate from Camberwell […]
So, after all the planning, yesterday we started work on the hoarding, under a very very hot sun. Whilst Ben and Jon from South London Gallery primed the wall with two coats of white paint, before painting sections of the […]
Two stories that demonstrate the freewheeling nature of a child’s imagination . . . Working with the children a week ago to devise texts for the hoarding, I met a boy I had not met before. I gave him some […]
The hoarding that I am working on is part of Drawn Together – walls created in collaboration – and forms part of a series of on-going education projects at the South London Gallery, which will be included in the exhibition […]
A selection of stories written by the children, which I collected during a previous residency are being published as the June edition of A3 Hand Drawn and Quartered, the monthly poster style publication that I produce. The South London Gallery […]
Here is a picture of the Stanley Spencer with the paint trolley that he used to wheel his painting equipment in and around Cookham. And Ladies and Gentlemen . . . here is a picture of my paint trolley that […]
To act as a focus for collecting writing from the children, I put up sheets of paper on the fences around the garden and a couple of the ‘rides’ at the playground. By the end of the day these were […]
Off shortly to gather more ideas and texts from the children at the playground – this is the last planned session at Charlie Chaplin’s, after this its a case of planning where the texts are going to go on the […]
I have now started to take notice of other building site hoardings that I see as I make my way around London – as blank canvasses ripe for texts. On Wednesday I saw one being constructed in Mile End – […]
Here is a video of the hoarding. At times the hoarding seems very very very long, but thankfully its NEVER as long as I imagine it to be.