Shock Horror!

So it's been more than 2 years since I have done anything about my online presence, which I'm trying to rectify asap – been super busy travelling around, doing a LOT exhibitions all over the place etc. All good, but onwards and on.

Currently you can see some pictures of mine at:

Guts for Garters present: Sex and Death

20 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, London WC2H 9LG

Artists from LE GUN: The Last Huzzah of the Hoxditch Leisure Pirates,

Robert Rubbish & Steph von Reiswitz

Radio Hair Salon, 93-97 Redchurch Street, London E2

Alvarado Gallery: Pain at the Dentist, 33 Chatsworth Road, E5

Bare Bones #9: There will be a lot of conflict, Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery, 30A Redchurch Street, London E2

Bare Bones 3

Drawing Room at Tate Britain

Georgia Jacob and I are up to our old tricks again, this time setting up in the beautiful 'portraiture 1700-1800' room at Tate Britain. There's a whole host of other interesting stuff happening - talks, performances, social experiments, you name it - so drop by if you're around. 2pm-5pm, free.

wah! it's been almost a year...

...and my online persona's been totally stagnant. Too much to do is the reason, but I'll try to update when I get a minute. (Been illustrating and exhibiting and travelling etc, it's all been good.) more pictures soon...

BB2 in the press

(dazed & confused 02/10)

Dean Street Townhouse

There's a new permanent show on at the Dean Street Townhouse (69 Dean Street) in Soho which opens to the public on Wednesday November 25.

The place has got some decent Soho history - initially the Townhouse's 18th Century building was a printing press for publisher Novello. In the 1920s, it housed the notorious Gargoyle club, a haunt for people like Noel Coward, Sigfried Sassoon, Dylan Thomas, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, John Minton and Graham Greene. Matisse created parts of the red and glass interiors, and his painting 'The Red Studio' hung on its walls. In the 1970s, a goth bar (The Batcave) moved in, earning the space a cult following, yet another following (with overlap) came in its next incarnation as a men's sauna and massage parlour. In the 1980s it hosted the nightclub Gossips.

The collection (themed around the allures of Soho) is on permanent display on the ground floor and includes such eminences of the art world as Andrzej Klimowski, Peter Blake, Tracey Emin, Noble and Webster, Gavin Turk, Fiona Banner, Paul Noble, Damien Hirst, Jamie Hewlett, Jose Parla, Keith Tyson, Mark Titchner as well as lots of younger folk including Neal Fox and myself. Drop by and have a little cocktail or a nibble, I'm told the food is exquisite.

Wilton's Café Poster Exhibition

Dave McH, chief of the Notting Hill Arts Club and various other ventures (and the man who provided us with the means and opportunity for the infamous LE GUN shoe shop of curiosities), has opened a new café. It's called Wilton's, at 63 Wilton Way in Hackney, serves excellent food and drink and also houses London Fields Radio. To mark the opening Dave invited us to stage a little poster exhibition there.

I'm trying to find better pictures as all the posters were great (featuring Bays, Bianchi, Bragg, Fox, Greene, Heretic, Kariya, Malt, and myself) - here's Heretic & Fox's contributions, and below that my own.

Bare Bones 2

Bare Bones 2 - launch and exhibition at Maurice Einhardt Neu gallery. Heretic were this issue's cover stars and showed a selection of posters as well as a limited edition screen printed BB book jacket, while other BB members put pen to A5 paper and sold several wallfuls of original drawings at a competitive price just in time for the christmas rush.

messengers of her majesty's cosmic empire

Messrs Bianchi and Rubbish put up this marvelous show at the Concrete Hermit gallery:

'Robert Rubbish and Chris Bianchi (of Le Gun magazine and Bare Bones tabloid) bring you a unique collaboration. They will be
transforming the Concrete Hermit gallery into an interstellar installation that coincides with the 4o year anniversary of the first
man on the moon. They will be showing their cosmic collections of curiosities. The artists will be exhibiting their own individual
artworks as well as collaborative paintings drawings and assemblages made specifically for the show. The pair take their
inspirations from the time they spent creating and running a modern day curiosity shop in Hackney in 2007 as well as many other
sources including the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, space rock, dipsomania, the occult, magic, Catholicism, James Ensor,
chemical memories, psychedelic experiences, death and Belgium. The exhibition will also have special events programmed
including a requiem mass on the last day: Halloween.'

Latitude and Port Eliot

In July the Drawing Room went on tour with the House of Fairy Tales, and spent 5 hectic days in the woods at Latitude with special guests Heretic...









The following week we decamped to lovely Port Eliot festival in Cornwall for some more of the usual, plus copious amounts of sloe gin, some impromptu theatrics and a hell of a lot of uphill dancing.

Bare Bones in the press

Dazed & Confused report on the launch of Bare Bones 1 at the D&C gallery...

bare bones show

setting up the bare bones exhibition at the dazed & confused gallery.



this is what a small part of it looked like -