I got called a Rottweiler in The Sunday Times…on Sunday.

Posted on December 05, 2007 @ 8:32 PM

well, i'm in this art show, yeah, like, it is touring the country, yeah, like, it started in Birmingham and then went to London and now is in Manchester, yeah, and it is a show of the top 30something recent graduates in the country...even though there is a German and a Greek in it...yeah, and the show got reviewd in The Sunday Times.  it is written by this guy called Waldemar Januszczaks and he called the piece, 'Vexed Generation.'  this is what he wrote about me  (and this bird called fiona):

"The pompous name sat uneasily on sculptures made of cardboard and sprawling installations of junk. But, as usual, Saatchi had noticed something important: that art was favouring grubby materials and squalid spectacles not because artists were poor and could afford only the contents of a skip, but because deliberate grunginess is a statement of intent. Fiona Mackay’s scarily childish paintings, or Rhys Coren’s barely literate poem about the selectors (scrawled on the wall of the house across the road from the Cornerhouse!), are examples of grunginess attempting to do to the modern world what rottweilers do to the legs of burglars"

odd that. what's funny is there is a BMXer from Liverpool in the show too.  out of the 30 best recent graduates in the country, 2 are BMXers.  He's called Andy. i aint got a pick of the illiterate poem what Waldemar speaks of, but this is a pic of one of the other bits of work i have in the show.  tudaar.
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