Chris Anthem
Chris Anthem is a painter based in Senegal
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Dante’s RedruthDad had a book when we were growing up, from… »
Krow Black Krowji.All I know it was a bad day in the studio.… »
Bow AimPicked up a drawing that hadn't sold/wasn't… »
Doppelganger – Jean Cocteaureceived this morning with the message - "Is this… »
“A little wisp of soul carrying a"A little wisp of soul carrying a corpse" -… »
Aritists Glossary #1 – Skiagraphia –Who was that character in V. Woolfs The Waves?… »
Batter/Sea/Kennel/StudioPeople came. Looked. Talked. Bought. Why… »
Anatomy DrawingsA weeks drawing and study of human anatomy,… »
Chrysalisations and Chrysanthemums.Speaking to D. at the Plumbline Gallery,, St… »
Monkey and the TypewriterEvery time I go down in to St Ives I think of the… »
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Demonstrations to Redruth, Cornwall – Art in Cairo
Cairo – from the spells spent there making/combining (2000 – 2002). Artworks that scuttle across the mind in these times of unrest. and now from Cornwall, from Redruth, with its own problems, its own response of art. Continue reading
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Egg Paintings.
The singularity of the egg. of painting methodically in the late winter afternoons, trying to rest the mind. Shells. Brush. Turps. Damar. There is this story – the yellow emperor tested the greatest painter alive – “Paint me a masterpiece a mile … Continue reading
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A drawing of a head. Government is Civil War.
“Government is Civil War”, says the scrawl. A head and some text. Nothing more. Is it a Proudhon quote? Politics of a different time – suffragette-ite ambiguities. Anthem-ic drawings abound. St Ives tomorrow.
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“Uterine Head of Hafez Assad (with his arse where his heart used to be).”
Total killed during Syrian uprising 2011 passes 2,000 . For Hama Continue reading
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Dung Sisyphus. Deubner – London Art Fair
The London Art Fair. The selling of old rope. Maybe Charlie Smith Ltd had some verve. Xavier Ellis had a a delicate little Goya looking thing. Saw Birgit – appeared out of a crowd at the London Art Fair – … Continue reading
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Scrambled Eggs – “Peace is overrated, War misunderstood”
Painting these portraits of R.. Rembrandt book fell open on the series of pictures of Saskia – all that love lumped together. The wedding portrait. And then, a flick of the thumb and Ganymede. the rape of. There is an … Continue reading
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Dante’s Redruth
Dad had a book when we were growing up, from his childhood – “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” it had these black and white engaged plates, a 1940′s comic, line drawn little boxes for the drawings. He had meticulously coloured … Continue reading
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Krow Black Krowji.
All I know it was a bad day in the studio. Krowji dysfunction. Interrupted by a coffee anger. I guess I learn more from the bad paintings. And I do. The painting I was working on is just suffocated – a … Continue reading
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