by Lady Lucy at Picture This, Bristol. 26 – 29 November 2008
As a visual artist Lucy Woollett has chosen ‘Lady Lucy’ as an alter ego to work under. In urban music circles this use of the word ‘Lady’ is a re-occurring theme and Ladies, All the Ladies is results of Lady Lucy’s self-imposed search to meet other ‘ladies’.
Lady Lucy’s film and events produce an inspiring portrait of women MCs, DJs, producers and performers involved in Urban music; Hip Hop, Drum and Bass, Garage, Reggae, Dance Hall, R and B, House and Grime from Bristol, UK and internationally, all of whom use the prefix ‘Lady’. Featuring Diss Miss (Dutty Girl, Girl Wonder), Laydee Bird, Lady Free, Lady K & Lady Maximum, Lady Paradox, Lady Raz.
Events
Saturday 29 November 2008
2pm
Ladies, All the Ladies
panel discussion
Lady Lucy in conversation with some of the ladies who participated in the film chaired by Bridget Crone, Director Media Art Bath.
Admission Free
8-12pm
Ladies, All the Ladies
club night
A night of music from some of the ladies featured in the film: Lady Free - drum ‘n bass from Hackney, Lady K and Lady Maximum - the UK’s only mother and daughter DJ/MC duo, Laydee Bird and Dutty Girl DJ’s.
Admission £5/£3 conc on the door For more information about the events see picture-this.org.uk
Ladies, All The Ladies is available as a limited edition DVD published by Picture This. Ladies, All the Ladies was supported by Picture This’ Small Wonders development scheme, funded by The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation; and received funding from Arts Council England Grants for Arts. Live events in partnership with Invader Records.
DVD
Ladies, All The Ladies is available as DVD published by Picture This in a limited edition of 250 copies. Priced at £10 Ladies, All The Ladies is available at Picture This and online through Cornerhouse www.cornerhouse.org/books Essay
A commissioned essay accompanies the project written by Lucy O’Brien. Lucy O’Brien is the author of She-Bop
has been writing on music, feminism and popular culture, for publications including NME, the Guardian, Q and Mojo.
I am delighted to invite you to our Fine Art MA show at Chelsea College of Art and Design.
If you would like a card invite please send me your address.
Hope you will be able to make it
All the best
Lady Lucy
The staff and students of MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design are very pleased to invite you to :
Chelsea MA Fine Art 2008
Adriana Rivera . Amruta Shah . Amy Stephens . Anahita Rezvanirad . Arina Gordienko . Catherina Turk . Charlie Franklin . David Wojtowycz . Dimitrios Ameladiotis. Flora Whiteley . Harry Chrystall . Hun Kim . Hyung-Min Yoon . Ildikó Buckley . James Noble . Jamie Christian Dyson . Jarrod Sanderson . Jeanne Gargam . Joana Bastos . Jonathan Hood . Kate Brigden . Keiko Takahashi and Adam Smith . Lady Lucy . Lynn Kelly . Manuela Gernedel . Maria Lynch . Martin Lofty . Michael Benjamin Brown . Nana Sachini . Nicole Shimonek . Ope Lori . Pariya Kanasen . peiyuan jiang . Pippa Gatty . Shiho Sakaki . Shikiko Aoyama . Shintaro Yamakawa . Suki Chan . Susie Green . Tyler Bright Hilton . Yuhsuan Yao . Mike Brown . Sylvia Matas .
Private View Please note : You must have a card invitation or print out this one.
Wednesday 17 September, 6pm - 9pm
Show Open Thursday 18 September 2008, 10am - 8pm Friday 19 September 2008 10am - 5pm Saturday 20 September 2008, 10am - 4pm Sunday 21 September 2008, 10am - 4pm
Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
If you a passing Stratford Underground Station, you can pick up a copy of The Stratford Grapevine a community newspaper made for and by the characters, staff and groups around Stratford. The project is by artist Lucy Harrison and commissioned by Platform For Art. Lucy asked if I would draw portraits at Stratford which I did one day in April. I was delighted to find the portraits fill the double page spread in the newspaper.
Also there adorning the staircase throughfare and balcony are Alan Kane's The Stratford Hoard ; collections of collections of things like sugar sachets, teaspoons, teapots , religous fliers and jugs.
It is all part of The Stratford Research Project
You should go to Stratford Underground Station as it is really good.
Read about the project The Stratford Grapevine here:
Summer’s here and Space Station Sixty-Five has wander lust. We’re packing up our booths and sideshows and heading east. Following us in their caravans are assorted freaks, bozos, glomming geeks, punks and bearded ladies. We’re pleased to introduce you to- Dominic Allan, Zoë Brown, Marisa Carnesky, Jo David, Charlie Fox, Rachael House, Sarah Jones, Lady Lucy, Mark McGowan, Alex Michon, Cathie Pilkington and WebsterGotts.
“Nothing turns heads quite like a funfair. Whether you spy the procession of lorries and caravans arriving in town or simply stumble across the riggers setting up on the common you are compelled to stop and stare. Once the fair is operating the desire to look is even stronger. The strange extreme architecture and that special glow from the lights draws you closer, to where the sounds and smells hit you. Rock ‘n’ roll and fried onions, screaming girls and diesel fumes.
The basics have really not changed in generations, but they don’t need to. The fairground plays with every sense, as the rides turn your stomach and the unusual landscape overwhelms you with a mix of excitement, fear and notions of romance. Nowhere else can we expect the chance of a quick snog, a mouthful of candy floss and the real danger of fisticuffs for some perceived minor infraction. The thrill of the ride is just a bonus.
Bringing all the fun of the fair (as well as some of the darkness) to this gallery within an east London school, Space Station Sixty-Five have picked the finest freaks, carnies and ride operators in the UK art world to spin the Waltzers and run the sideshows. Ghost Train doyenne Marisa Carnesky is on hand with the plans for her dark ride and Tim Hunkin transports the mundane to new heights for his Ride of Life, which posits the domestic setting as theme park. Alex Michon hails Billy Fury’s fleeting appearance in funfair movie That’ll Be The Day for her film loop piece Stormy’s Temporal Tempest.
Zoë Brown’s study of acrobats brings the circus sideshow into the equation, as does Charlie Fox’s bear performances, while Mark McGowan’s attempt to break a world record brings to mind that carny standard, the freak show. Both Jo David and WebsterGotts show video work that reflects the sense of fun to be had in the ridiculous and overblown atmosphere of the fairground. Meanwhile, Dominic Allan brings playful interaction to the school environment by making a model of a googly-eyed child in the Morpeth School uniform.
No trip to the fair is complete without shooting, throwing or kicking your way to some kind of sideshow prize, with the sculpture of Cathie Pilkington and Sarah Jones reflecting the bizarre items you may take home. Lady Lucy takes the role of the sideshow sketch artist and Rachael House invites visitors to sketch a clown, with both sets of work making up part of the exhibition.” Iain Aitch
Iain Aitch writes for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Art World. He is also the author of A Fête Worse Than Death and We’re British, Innit (which will be published by Collins on 1 September). He grew up near to the Dreamland amusement park in Margate, Kent.
Carny Town is a Space Station Sixty-Five curation by Rachael House and Jo David at Portman Gallery. For more info go to Space Station Sixty-Five
Space Station Sixty-Five is one of the very few genuinely independent art spaces in London which has consistently positioned itself alongside the most engaged, exciting and radical contemporary practice. Long may it last! Dave Beech, artist and critic
Space Station Sixty-Five an artist-run space in south-east london.
65 North Cross Road, London SE22 9ET
w www.spacestationsixtyfive.com e info@spacestationsixtyfive.com v 020 8299 5036 m 07976 601281
I dunno if oyu remember me.......im nosh, coral's good friend & partner in crime this side of the atlantic??
aaanyhoo, im also an artist and i hadn't done anything personal in about 7 years - just exploring other forms. i habitually check out other artists who draw/do similar hings and i started to read your various blogs. the short version is that i bought the brushpen that you recommended and its TOTALLY got me back on track. I would sell that pen, every single stroke is perfection.
so i thank you form the bottom of my heart for sharing the knowledge.
*i may sound a bit ike a wingnut but i had gotton so bad that i felt i had 'forgotton' to draw cos i used the computer so much. shocking state of affairs.
A Panel discussion with Paul Gravett and exhibiting artists: 6.15-7pm, 8 May 2008.
The Centre for Recent Drawing presents Diary Drawing, an exhibition curated by Sarah Lightman. Diary Drawing, brings together disparate types of visual journals and autobiographical graphic novels to examine drawing and diary making as possess’ of thinking and acting fundamental to human experience. Diary Drawing explores the application of line as a means of documenting or transcribing intimate and individual histories to a public audience.
Lightman has included artists who use conventional idioms of comic making alongside more exploratory employment of materials: cigarettes are drawn on as well as sketch books and an online blog. The artworks included show diary drawing as a method of documenting performance, journeys, romantic disappointments, the survival of the Nazi Holocaust and cancer. This exhibition also includes artworks that use diary drawing as a method of pursuing fictitious autobiographies.
This show will tour to The School of the Arts, Northampton University, for Paraliterary Narratives; Reassessing the ‘Graphic Novel’ 6-7th June 2008
Acknowledged by The Times as "the greatest living historian of the comics and graphic novel form in this country", Paul Gravett is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster about international comics and director of the Comica festival at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. In 2008, he curated Manhua! China Comics Now, the first exhibition of contemporary Chinese comics in the UK, part of the China Now festival. His latest books with Peter Stanbury are The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics (Robinson) and the forthcoming Incredibly Strange Comics (Aurum). www.paulgravett.com
The exhibition will coincide with the presentation as part of C4RD's online residency programme of published entries of the diary of artist Daphne Warburg Astor, who has kept a visual and written diary for forty years.
Press enquiries please contact Sarah Lightman 07811394315
To celebrate this the artist is selling some of her work. Some things that are a bit like the B sides OR DVD extra's to the main features. Others are classics. You will find all of these things in Lady Lucy's 10th anniversary sale. A RARE opportunity to buy drawings. prints and illustrations direct from the artist.
EVENT ! Saturday 8th December from 12- 5 pm Unit 19, Spike Island Sculpture Everything must go.
It's my tenth anniversary, 4 and 1/2 of which you have witnessed on this journal. Come along Next Saturday and if you can't there will be a web auction too. Details to follow. Hope to see you there. LL xx
so far xx I spoke to this human this afternoon and I saw her. How special was that. How I love my little sister. How I love all my brothers and sisters xx
In my continuing quest to dig deeper through the year of 1968. I found that Johnny Cash's legendary performance at Folsom prison was in 1968. Not only that but that is when he and June Carter got married too
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