Sodley-on-Sea Is Showing As Part Of This...........

Sodley-on-Sea has taken on a life of it's own. It's moved on from just being some daft c**t sticking bits of paper together in the back room of a semi in Salford, to being an Arts Council funded project. Funny how things happen.

So not only did it receive funding it's also going to be shown as part of Enlighten Manchester - Festival of Light and Sound Art 2015  at Central Library Manchester this coming December.

If you click on the link it tells you when and how you can book. Although it's free you still need to book. You can also book onto a couple of workshops that I'm doing starting this Saturday (14/11/15) They are not free. 

Stephen (C) Nuttall.

 

 

Stephen (C) Nuttall is a home grown satirist. This Manchester based illustrator has been taking folk to task using a pencil for donkey's years. He also makes pictures like the one below which is called Conway Line Painter. See more of his work HERE.

THE SALFORD & DISTRICT TAKEAWAY MENU MUSEUM.

Image copyright Mark Page and THE SALFORD & DISTRICT TAKEAWAY MENU MUSEUM.

 

The above image is a 2 metre by 1.5 metre digital collage which is made up from takeaway menus that have been posted through my front door over the last five years. I now have several hundred of these colourful little pamphlets which is why I have decided to form THE SALFORD & DISTRICT TAKEAWAY MENU MUSEUM.

It is a bit tongue in cheek but I do also think that they do or at least will form part of our social history. I believe that there is a pencil museum somewhere so come on! It's also a chance to take a look at the workings of institutions such as museums and galleries.

If you have menus to contribute and they are from Greater Manchester then please send me them, email me for an address.

Cats.

“My wife Yoko first brought Chiro home from Kasukabe when she was just a four month old kitten.”
– Nobuyoshi Araki, Itoshi No Chiro (Chiro, My Love), 1990

Oh no I hear you scream bloody cats on the web. Get used to it, there may be a few more around here over the next couple of weeks. I love cats me. Dogs are OK but they can be prone to eat their own shit. Cats don't even like to look at theirs.
 Araki loved his cat so I'm in good company. Thought I'd make some cat work, so I've been looking at cats in Art as well as all that 'Cats in sinks' Internet shite .
 THIS series by Araki is a good place to start. It's as good as animal photography gets. "Never work with animals or kids" they say. Animals because it's hard, kids because it's Britain and you would probably get nonced off but that's a post for another day.

Anyway more cat stuff coming up. I'm just a smitten kitten me.