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Gone elsewhere! From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1312 days old)
Further tales from the bohemian underground can be found at stephenart-east.blogspot.com ... seeing as blog.co.uk have decided to smother me in ads!!!!!! See you there hopefully! SAE. x … more
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Last Weekend From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1313 days old)
What an exhausting few days. On Thursday we went to the Royal Albert Hall to see Razorlight. I'm not a fan but G wanted to see them and it was for charity and the lead singer is rather decorative s… more
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The Art of New York From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1322 days old)
Our second visit to NYC in 6 months and the first thing I enjoyed was the cabride from JFK into Manhattan; a journey I've decided will always remind me of 'Two Divided by Zero' off the Pet Shop Boys '… more
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From Hell... From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1332 days old)
To the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the Tiger Lillies' 'Mountains of Darkness' evening... The support was curious electonic noise preformed by K&A (Kirsten and Ashley) against a massive slide-sho… more
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Filmic Afternoons From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1337 days old)
Sunday... woke up grumpy and tired and was not cheered up by the Irish Food Fair in Covent Garden which I thought would be an Oyster laden feast for sophisticates. Instead there were about ten stalls … more
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"The Speakers..." From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1339 days old)
In an earlier blog-entry (9th September 2005) I had visited Gilbert & George's 'Death, Hope, Life, Fear' at Tate Modern. I was nostalgic for this massive work of the '80's, and I'm a big fan of a… more
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D-I-S-C-O! From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1356 days old)
Couple of bottles of wine at lunch with my boss at the Job du Jour led to the larger trap (or is it the lager trap?)... dashed home to get changed or 'glued' as Andy Warhol used to say, back into the … more
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Maggi Malcontent From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1364 days old)
To Marlborough Fine Art for for Maggi Hambling's 'Portraits of People and the Sea'. I love the way Maggi Hambling handles paint, and I love these gushing spurting seascapes off the Suffolk coast. T… more
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The Art of Parties From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1364 days old)
The gallery had the idea of holding a closing party for the exhibition, and it worked a treat. Probably about 50 people over an hour and a half almost all of whom had not managed to make it to the op… more
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Art vs Goth From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1364 days old)
I was never a big fan and they were always on the periphery of what I found exciting but Friday nite we made the journey to a rammed Brixton Academy to watch the wonder that is Bauhaus. I always h… more
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Lovely Luke From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1385 days old)
Went to see Luke Haines at the Islington Carling Academy last nite. Slightly disabled at the moment by a heavy cold that seems to have lodged in my ears making me half-deaf... I'm hard of hearing in o… more
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Rough Boys and Glamour Girls From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1385 days old)
On Saturday I went to Transition Gallery to see the new show ‘Machismo’ curated by one of the participating artists Paul Murphy. ‘Machismo’ is an investigation into bravery or masculinity and the like… more
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Images of "Images of Lost Content" From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1391 days old)
Met one of my collectors last nite at the gallery and took the opportunity to take some photos of the exhibition. The viewing developed into jolly drinks with the gallery people over in my new favouri… more
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New Year New Show New Ideas... From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1393 days old)
Forgive me for non-attendence in the world of blog. I fell out of the habit over Christmas and New Year (seems like a world away now)...then my thoughts were so taken up with my show and applicable st… more
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BERLIN Pics From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1428 days old)
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"Why can't we go to f*cking Malaga like normal people!!!...." From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1428 days old)
Just returned from our trip to freezing Berlin; it wasn't quite as cold as our last (February) visit but wasn't far off. We stayed at the same hotel, the Park Inn next to the TV tower on Alexanderp… more
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Views of Ourselves From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1433 days old)
On Saturday I painted myself for a new show of self-portraits that's opened at Indo on Whitechapel Road. It's a group show mainly of the artistic bunch who drink in the bar and it's a great exhibit… more
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SUPERSTAR DJ's!!!! From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1440 days old)
I love this DJing lark... my set list at the increasingly popular 'Who's in your Record Bag' nite compared by Rob (Retro barman and runs Monday club nite Windypops at the White Swan) last nite ran thu… more
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"Justin Bond and the Freudian Slippers" From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1443 days old)
On Friday nite a merry band of Retro-regulars made our way to Too 2 Much for the last nite of Justin Bond's residency. Crazy G and I, Smashing Michael, Dawn Right Nasty, Rock'n'Roll Malcolm and Big Al… more
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Oh YES! From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1443 days old)
Gemma de Cruz, reviewing 'Acid Drops and Sugar Candy' on BBC Collective has likend my work to Elizabeth Peyton's. Am utterly chuffed, as I'm a fan of her work. I was also just pleased to be mentioned.… more
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Goodbye From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1443 days old)
Sadly, I went to my friend Maggie's funeral on Thursday. The service was at St.Marys Roman Catholic Church in Clapham. The coffin was a rectangular basket made of willow. It looked for all the w… more
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SPACES AND PLACES From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1451 days old)
On Saturday evening DH phoned... he talked about my new stuff a bit, and about his show that's just opened at Somerset House and, interestingly, the 'China - Three Emperors' exhibition at the Royal A… more
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ACID DROPS From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1451 days old)
On Saturday Crazy G and I visited 'Acid Drops' being one half of 'Acid Drops and Sugar Candy' at Transition Gallery in Lauriston Road, Victoria Park. It's a great little show, with around 40 artists s… more
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Visions of Albion From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1455 days old)
On Sunday I dropped off my paintings for a new group show 'Acid Drops and Sugar Candy', a joint-show between Fosterart in Shoreditch and Transition Gallery. Transition Gallery are showing the 'Acid Dr… more
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GUNSHOTS AND PEARLS From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1461 days old)
On Saturday Crazy g and I revisited Riflemaker in Beak Street for the third installment in the Unseen Art of William Burroughs series. The point this time being to set out those artists who have been … more
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DJ Culture From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1468 days old)
No posts in the last few days due to the fact that a week-long avalanche of Vino Tinto temporarily put all good sense very much on hold... On top of all that of course one has to factor in the cras… more
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Pixelated Penguins and the Like From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1479 days old)
On Sunday Crazy G and I went to the Zoo Art Fair. Zoo is Frieze's younger though unrelated (and distinctly cooler) sibling, and split between two large function halls at London Zoo... and whereas … more
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Hot from the Studio From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1479 days old)
New work, as promised... As ever I am unable to rotate (is there a knack to this?)... I'm rather pleased (even if I do say so myself) with 'New Kids on the Close'... (this was 'in progress' in an e… more
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THE MUNCH BUNCH From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1485 days old)
No postings since New York simply because I've been 'hard at it'... I've got a solo show in the West End in Jan 2006 and a handful of group shows coming up and if I don't pull my finger out they'll be… more
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NY PICS From
stephenarteast
in Stephen Art-East
(1503 days old)
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