12th September 2024

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The last days of the Window Gallery and with it my residency there with Rosetta Art Centre. 2012. Just in time too because that’s when we got hit with plumbing issues from the toilets next door flooding mine and the studio next to mine. Also the very last day after the closing show stinking of both vomit and a heavy dumping session in the toilet that gave up the ghost and stopped flushing altogether. The glamour of the artistic life.

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.

27th August 2024

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2012. My first solo exhibition. This was the culmination of my time in the Rosetta Windows Gallery as a resident artist, making and eventually showing a series of mixed media relief paintings I had produced in my studio space on site. It was a terrific experience and one I always treasure. There was something else going on that year as well…the London Olympics? Something like that. I’m not sure….