Aaron Carter + Amy Marjoram + Andrew Atchison + Andrew Kershaw
Ben Raynor + Briony Barr + Candice Cranmer + Charis McKittrick
Clinton Milroy & Kevin Chin + Devon Ackermann + Hao Guo
Joel Zika + Kate Robertson + Ka-Yin Kwok + Keith Wong
Kel Glaister + Kieran Stewart + Kiron Robinson + Lily Feng
Lou Hubbard + Louis Porter + Marion Piper + Michael Meneghetti
Paul Yore + Rebecca Adams + Remie Cibis + Sanja Pahoki
Siân Darling + Tamsin Green + Yvette King
with a video commentary by Mark McGowan- The Artist Taxi Driver (UK)
Curated by Amy Marjoram
with YouTube program curated by Remie Cibis
Mark McGowan- The Artist Taxi Driver (UK) was invited to discuss what he thinks is Better Than Art. The video he made in response to this request ‘Torturing David Cameron and the Queen is better than art’ is above.
“These days you get five million people looking at a fucking youtube video of I don’t know, a polar bear eating an ice cream or something.”- Keith Wong
image courtesy of Heather Lighton- http://heatherdiaries.blogspot.com/
-jack has a momentary freak out from robotic ducks and running in the gallery, nothing a quick cuddle cant fix.
Siân Darling
Jack Darling, mixed breed dog
Jack Darling was rescued from the barely clasping clutches of a pregnant woman on heroin. He was on a main road, almost hit by a car right before our eyes. When we told the woman, she said, “Oh that’s ok. He’s fine. We don’t even really want him.” When we asked why he was covered in scabs, she said, “Oh, my partner kicks him n stuff. Yeah, we don’t really want him.” The woman was doing a favour to jack’s first owner, a former barrister who became an alcoholic and who passed away. With his shady history of abuse and self-sufficiency, Jack bears no grudge to humans. In fact, he often glistens his eyes in our direction, offering anything he can. Jack’s gentle disposition is better than art.
1 tennis ball sized chunk of Blu-Tack studded with a range of picture-hanging pins accumulated over years of hanging 2D works on the walls of my workplace.
A small clear container of bread packet ‘best before’ clips – approx 3,000 given to me by Ross Coulter circa 2005.
From the bed sheets to bad streets, this two in one will be the most reassuring garment out there. Now you can feel like someone always has your back.
Available in XXXL and XXXXL.
This sign was on a church in Weimar. The text translates as “Faith is like a rope that you can hold on to.” I like it because they included a real rope that is a) too short to be of any use, and b) not attached to anything.
