Circus Gallery shots

ere's some pics of the Circus Solo Show, Presented by Death by Daylight & Eddie Lock at Red Bull Studios, London Bridge.


The show was fantastic, thanks to everyone that came and made it wicked!


And here's some pics of the space after the Opening Night:
Gallery View from left: Dancer (Portrait of Francoise Dorleacas as Solange in 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort', with circus lights.) Hunter (Portrait of Hunter S Thompson with Vegas lights.) A Certain Kind of Love (Portrait of Edie Sedgwick from Warhol's Screen test.)

Gallery View from left: Kate - above the piano (Portrait of Kate Moss on vintage Union Jack), Twiggy (Portrait of Twiggy with bow tie.), Blondie (Portrait of Debbie Harry.) , Loop (Portrait of Jane Birkin.)


Gallery View from left: Kate, Twiggy, Blondie, Looop, Wonder Wheel (Portrait of Mia Farrow from 'A Dandy in Aspic' with Coney Island lights.), Erotica (Portrait of Jane Fonda as Barbarella.)

Check out the retro carpets.

The show closes December 2nd, but I have got a handful of catalogues left, so email me or get in touch with Eddie Lock.

Theres more pics on the FACEBOOK PAGE which I am much better at updating than this rather unkept and erratic blog!

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Liberty & Fortune

Couple of new flags that made it to London Art Fair, with Mauger Modern.


Fortune. 2010
Flag size 168 x 107 cm
Bleaching technique & dye on vintage American flag in black box frame


Liberty. 2010.
Flag size 148 x 85 cm
Bleaching technique & dye on vintage American flag in black box frame

Finished!

Hot from the magic bleaching room. Last week I finished this, my latest commision, its on a handmade palestinian flag:
It was quite a feat of sewing, (although it looks deceptively simple). Of course vintage Palestinian flags don't come up much, so i had to make it. It was surprisingly tricky to find vintage fabric that was the same colour as a palestinian flag. I've now realised that there must be super strong dyes in flags that with stand dyeing them black and bleaching back to their original colour, without going white! I tried to dye some linen green, then dyed it black and it just bleached back to white! So i made this out of a vintage Italian flag (which is a good green), and some vintage red linen, and used the flag rivets from the italian flag to finish it off.

probably my most detailed, eye yet!


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New Flags

Here's some new flags I've made very, very recently, finished last week

I had a little break from 'flag-world' while I made some black brocade works, for the NOIR show , and now feel a slight draw back to flags, theres something magical about bleaching on flags in that you never know what its going to look like until its finished. Some blues go blue (like in Void), others go grey (like in New World), and some just fade to cream (like in Forgotten), so each piece has a big case of random chemical reactions.

The first 2 (Void & New World) will be going to Affordable Art Fair in Bristol with Mauger Modern who are based in Bath. I haven't ever shown my flags in the Bristol AAF, (but have in the last 2 London ones), so it'll be interesting how they are perceived.

Theres been a definate change in my flags recently, the figues are less vulnerable, they are more strong perhaps. I guess thats the positive light that Obama brings, I feel more hopeful for america now than england's foggy future. Obama has the skills to be look empathetic and clever whilst looking like a super-hero. Our boy Gordon Brown however, is mostly seen mumbling, apologysing and looking like a use car salesman, So this month I've unashamedly make 3 more American flags.

I have been attempting of late to make a denim union jack, but having spent about 4 days sewing, pinning and generally wrecking my sewing machine, I had a small hissy fit, tossed it on the fabric pile and vowed to stick to ready-mades.

Void, flag size 87 x 50 cm Dye, bleach and discharge on vintage American flag

New World, flag size 60 x 90 cm, Dye and bleaching technique on embroidered American Flag


Forgotten, flag size 87x 143 cm Dye and bleaching techniques on vintage American flag


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Shock Awakening now available

Shock Awakening is now available online at my etsy shop!

Shock Awakening Original Screen print

I only have 10 prints available to sell.

Approximate convertion £165 / $269

2 colour original screen print by Pam Glew, brand new release for October 2008.

The portrait is based on Kate Yeung in The Pang Brothers film The Eye Infinity.

Printed on heavy weight 300 gsm Bockingford Acid Free mould made, buffered paper.

Title - Shock Awakening
Medium - Screen Print
Published - 2008
Paper Size - 60 cm x 80 cm (23.5 x 31.5 inches)
Edition of 40 - * I only have 10 of these prints!*
Signed & Dated - Bottom right

Buy online: www.pamglew.etsy.com

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Its also launched tonight at Affordable Art Fair at Artizan Editions- the PV is tonight so hope to meet some of you that are on my mailing list there! I will have work at the Art-file Gallery stand and Artizan Editions gallery too...

painting red

i have been working, stenciling, dyeing flags and such like a demon lately, because in May ive got a solo show and a group show in Brighton.......... exhibitions are like buses, they always come at once....

so i have been destroying more classic horror books, or embellishing them, making them into art, upcycling them even, whatever you want to call it.... heres my studio after a red painting session, the entire book of the Omen, my studio buddies must think i have a red fetish...

thanks Zygopsyche

i love this new treasury by Zygopsyche on etsy, such a wicked selection of cupids bows & arrows & lovely stuff