skreeworld: January 2011

Sunday, 30 January 2011

British Woodland and Forestry sell off

Friday, 28 January 2011

Just had a wierd alco nacht of conversation, got beaten down regarding my curatorial skills over my selection of exhibitors in the Prtivate Parts exhibition. Happen I can be an asshole yet it wouldnt have happened if I hadn't made it. Each time you put your head up you take a shot. Private Parts was an exhibition of all the people I had worked with since coming to Somerset. I made mistakes but it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't have made it happen. Easy to KO me, try organising a night like that. Love to all who came, showed or s;lagged us off.

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Assange cannot be extradited to US over Manning

'The officials say that while investigaters have determined that Manning had allegedly downloaded tens of thousands of documents on to his own computer and passed them on to an unauthorised person, there is apparently no evidence he passed the files directly to Assange or had any direct contact with the Wikileaks figure.'
Looks like Manning is collateral damage

Untitled

Neighbours

Opening

Skreefilm 2011 saw

This is the first serious work made since the new year. After the despair of winter, I feel a spring in my step. Picking up on the furniture and returning to working normallity. What is most evident is the return of the magic eye. When things are in focus, every corner, each nook holds wonder. Whether this is a gift to see beauty and meening where most don't or a psychotic investment I make when manic, I know not. Just that it feels good and right.

Friday, 21 January 2011

Christopher Hitchens vs Tony Blair Debate: Is Religion A Force For Good ...

Spring

Snowdrops just about to bloom. Can't wait for light to cheer things up

Painting down the Park

Gentle Street

Tony Blair at Chilcot

I could barely hold my anger seeing Blair giggle as he spoke of UN resolutions 'evolving'. The man is clearly detached from the reality of what took place.

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

The slow Winter trawl

The tail end of last year tapered off to naught in a quagmire of illness, sandwiched between two bouts of what is currently diagnosed as a stomach ulcer and crushing depression came many days of illness. Even now I feel weak, fluish, ill. Tex got through one day at work last week before diaroeah and vomitting took him apart. It took till friday before I could sleep through a night, till he produced 'solids'. We went to the studio on monday and tuesday then last night he was sick throughout the night, clearing up sick all night and journeys out to see if I can get him to off load outdoors have left us exhausted. We are no hypachondriacs yet something seems to stand between me and making things. If it's not a dread of the studio then physical illness come in to steer us. The world has ways to let you know if you are spending your days wisely. It's as simple as putting ones hand in the fire. I feel certain my future will not be in making things in qute the same way as I have been. I can't find the joy I once could in the realisation of a vision. Not in that way, anyway. There is a way life drags you through the body of ones own experience and skills in to patterns or ruts of behaviour. People come to me for certain things and I make them which provides me with a living but it can become like being led by my past rather than the infinite possibility it should be.

Friday, 14 January 2011

Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning has spent the last 5 months in solitary confinement for releasing the best things published by wikileaks. Bail to present a decent case is estimated at $150,000. He could go down for over 50 years. Julian Assange has made his name on these documents and faces his own problems in Sweden, he is fortunate to have many celebrity supporters. Wikileaks has financial problems since the US government pressurised barclaycad, vsa ans paypal to close their accounts with wikileaks however there seems to be funds Assanges' case yet they are only offering Mannings lawyers £15'100, they have raised about $100'000 through other sources yet it still appears rather unsporting not to help the main seed of thier success. While Assange clearly relishes his martyr status and Skreeworld supports his work we feel Wikileaks should be helping Manning more. Besides the honour involved it would seem a poor advert for further leakers to come forward.