PANIC IN THE STREETS I spent much of my art school time between 1968-70 walking the streets of London and even with a destination in mind, the endlessness of streets and terracing removed not just any understanding of a horizon but any understanding of what was real....
Every artist passes through stages in their career which can be determined by medium, influence or event/location. I am no different. However, what is interesting to me is not stages but beginnings. I can trace the origins of both specific ideas and stylistic...
There is nothing new about art being vandalised or destroyed – the ancient world is littered with the corpses of statues raised in the name of any number of potentates and pulled down by a successor. Art and politics have always marched hand in hand and...
