exhibition

16th November 2024

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A couple of weeks after my trip to the Tate Modern to see the Expressionists exhibition I made another visit just to see the general collection. My anxiety levels about going out have been pretty high and I have to make a concentrated effort to make the journey to St. Pauls on the central line, across the bridge and into the gallery. I set myself a task of only visiting the first floor rooms this visit and leaving the next floor for another day. That way it took some of the pressure off. I managed to enjoy most of the works and get round the first three themed galleries - a bit rushed but good to see some familiar favourites and some that I haven’t seen before. I managed a quick look in the shop and the latest work in the Turbine Hall, Open Wounds by Mire Lee. Here are some images from the day.

Lee Krasner

Jackson Pollock

Giorgio de Chirico

5th September 2024

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Fantastic evening at the Tower Gallery tonight with a group show called ‘Autumn’. I was lucky to have two paintings on show. It was a great night and a really well put together exhibition. A good night for meeting new people and catching up with friends also showing in the exhibition. The show continues every weekend up until the 29th September. I’m not the greatest at getting good photos of these events but here’s what I managed on the night, balancing my phone and my wine glass at the same time.

4th September 2024

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This was a mixed media work I made around 2009/10 for an exhibition exploring the theme of celebrity culture, depicted here as a kind of nightmarish Frankenstein’s monster, with camera lenses where the eyes should be and hair made up torn and ripped pages from celebrity magazines. Even now I feel that exposing myself to the content of those magazines showed an extraordinary dedication to my art practice and the exhibition itself.

3rd September 2024

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An early mixed media piece including quotes from a Tom Waits song. The light in the eye actually worked. I can remember exhibiting this in the Barbican Library in a group show with some other mixed media works of mine and getting some of the worst feedback in the comments book I’ve ever had! I wish I still had them to hand but they were along the lines of “Steve Marriott’s work looks like it came from a rubbish bin and that’s where it should have stayed!” People got quite angry about it. None of which made me stop making more.