Chris Anthem
Chris Anthem is a painter based in Senegal
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Conversing with the media ‘faeries’
Its interesting stuff to someone who headed away form humanity to his granite mount, to the Luddite cave, the lumpen timelessness – now conversing with the media faeries. Seminar on how to drive that all important link thing. Just been … Continue reading
Bunting Paintings
St Ives, Porthmeor, work slung, idling, like sheets on the tenement roof. Continue reading
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Winged things. Ugly posts.
Days in the Studio. This window of time. Radio 4 is a deathly carousel of Cameron’s hatcheting of civil society as we know it – student grants, legal aid, Employment Support Allowance. He’s finally doing what Thatcher dreamed of, Pinochet … Continue reading
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idioglossia – Artist’s Glossary
Word of the Day for Wednesday, November 17, 2010 idioglossia \id-ee-uh-GLOS-ee-uh\, noun: 1. A private form of speech invented by one child or by children who are in close contact, as twins. 2. A pathological condition in which a person’s … Continue reading
The Primacy of Drawing
National gallery. Random rest of legs below Johann Liss’s “Judith in the tent of Holofernes”. Thinking of the frog spawn heads that I’ve been drawing. Bubble wrap popping. In the evening went to see comedian Bill Bailey at the Wyndem … Continue reading
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Carn Brea
Mum said something stunning on the phone. I was telling her about the experience of painting Carn Brea, how the studio pictures looked identical to the ones I painted up there and what a dissapointment that was! That I had … Continue reading
Violet Coat/Violet Hour
Violet Coat/Violet Hour Crepuscular Carn. I’d lain in bed all day – through the church bells, the crows scraping on the slates, the farmers sons motorbike. And walked for the last clocks foward hour. It was all souls day. Tempted … Continue reading
Artichoke and the Rehab Drawings
R.D came over to the studio to discuss publishing the rehab drawings in Artichoke. It a magazine he produces from his shed. No production values, printed on a budget. Its a magazine covering art that falls outside of the dull … Continue reading