Stuart Mayes
Artist living and working in Uppsala, Sweden and very occasionally London
Fashioning my universe from the material of other men's lives and a good amount of glitter. www.stuartmayes.com @studiostuartmayes Uppsala & LondonMy first of four screen-printing workshop was on Tuesday evening. It was really good. Lucy who runs the course and the print workshop is really nice and a great tutor. She even provided me with a towel to dry myself […]
My house (home?) is ‘on the market’. It is a very strange feeling, not only does it mark a significant point of change of my life, it is also all so uncertain. Change is a very current theme that appears […]
I’ve emailed the wip:stkhlm and asked if they have any studios available from August. It would be great if they did. I feels really good to think that I’ll have a studio again, and August 1st is the second anniversary […]
I’m starting the last of the ‘big jobs’ on my flat. Over the last two months I’ve allowed myself to be totally consumed by decorating and other DIY. Having said that I went to a wonderful talk by Dorothy Cross […]
One of things I really appreciate about spending time here (in London) and there (in Stockholm) is how it insulates me from distraction. It is my nature to get involved in things and sometimes this is detrimental to my own […]
I love art I love art. Art saved my life. As an isolated overweight gay boy attending a tough comprehensive school in Essex in the late 70s and 80s art showed me something else. Beyond the joy of the art […]
Supermarket Day 4 This is the first day that the fair is open to the public. It is immediately and surprisingly busy. A friend is supposed to come during her lunch-break, unfortunately she is delayed and arrives just as Michael […]
Supermarket Day 2 Day 2 did not start well. After such a successful day installing Play I was expecting a similar enjoyable and productive day. Almost as soon as I arrived Pontus (one of the Supermarket organisers) told me that […]
Supermarket Day 1 (inc Day 0 and -1) Play is almost installed at Supermarket. The location on the third floor is very good, not least because of the view from the adjacent window. Play hangs diagonally between the glass walls […]
This time next week I’ll be in Stockholm preparing for Supermarket Art Fair. I’m getting there a bit early (two days) because I know that I need time to settle before starting work. We start the actual setting up of […]
jinx, prints, the RA and butterflies I spoke too soon! Play won’t be at the entrance to Supermarket – for reasons that I haven’t questioned I’ve been offered three alternative spaces. It is disappointing and part of me wants to […]
interview (i & ii), Supermarket 2011, printer, pictures It’s very interesting to see Andrew Bryant’s interview with me online. Reading my words online is different from having read them in the word documents that we exchanged over the summer and […]