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| "Neandertals did not paint their caves with the images of animals. But perhaps they had no need to distill life into representations, because its essences were already revealed to their senses. The sight of a running herd was enough to inspire a surging sense of beauty. They had no drums or bone flutes, but they could listen to the booming rhythms of the wind, the earth and each other's heartbeats, and be transported" (James Shreeve) |
| Pedras Esculturas "Primitivist Sculptures" celebrating wild nature. (Portugal, 2001) Em Portugu�s: Also new work on this theme in a flooded river in North Wales. (Wales, 2002) and in the Eryieux (France 2003) |
| Most gallery's have "comments books", so here is your chance to wonder how this stuff qualifies as "art", complain about it being a waste of taxpayers' money etc..... |
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| Back to my home page... |
| Y yo te vi, te vi por la ventana Action/painting. (Portugal, 2001) |
| Help! Jane, there's a sunspider crawling towards my head Painting as a pleasurable indulgence of nostalgia...and nothing to do with "art". (Portugal, 2001) |
| Revolution of the Car Nations Eco-interventionist perfomance at street level! (Portugal, 2001) Em Portugu�s |
| MY PRAXIS: Initially the point of departure for my work has been an explicitly �political� standpoint. I have often dealt with political issues and my practise has been an attempt at intervention in this arena. Theoretically too, I have drawn as much from political sources as artistic ones. Most productively from attempts to combine the two such as Dada and the Situationists. My own aim has been to develop a praxis that reunifies art and politics with the totality of my creative activity into what Raoul Vaniegem termed the�revolution of everyday life�. Of course this attempt at praxis has produced what Marxists would perhaps call a dialectic. To paraphrase a poorly remembered line from a movie; It�s hard to stay angry when there is so much beauty in the world. What could be termed the �revolutionary ecologism� of my work necessarily entails the development of a celebration of the beauty of wild nature, as much as a condemnation of the suicidal tendencies of industrial capitalism that are destroying it. |
| The Geography of Making Short extract from a text about the theory of some the work I did in Portugal. (Portugal 2001) |
| The Class War Didn't Happen? Written work about the nature of power in the alleged "postmodern" world. (England 2001) Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. |
| Ffoi, Ffoi Fy Nhristwch There is an Inuit saying �let he who wishes to experience visions go to a lonely place and a rub a stone an a rock for hours or days on end.�, so I did... (Wales, 2001) |
| Broken Channel Review of an exhibition by Ravi Deepres in Manchester. (England 2001) |
| Chwarae Yn Y Chwarel Action/drawing. (Wales, 2002) Yn Gymraeg: |
| Witgeld Site specific interventionist work on the streets of Amsterdam. (Netherlands, 2002) |
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| Messer Im Kopf Performance/installation at Artoll in the Rheinische Kliniken. (Germany, 2002) |
| NEW!!! page of Art links |
| Topograffi An ongoing Landscape Art project (Wales, 2003-04) |
| Pethau Anghofio 1997-2003 Coming soon...fragments of older work, incomplete projects and descriptions of lost/undocumented pieces. |