tim walker

"Fashion allows fantasy, and i am a fantasist. I love beautiful clothes-but I couldn't give a monkeys whats on the catwalks."

revival of the still life

The still-life is back. 8,600 diamonds, a few kilos of high-grade platinum and a set of real human teeth. Damien Hirst's "For the Love of God" cost 14 million pounds to produce and had an asking price of 50 million. Claimed to be a tribute to Dutch still-lifes and the reoccurring theme of death, the piece is showing at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam along side Hirst's personal selection of 17th century Dutch art.

I much prefer Laura Letinsky's (born Canada) interpretation-beautiful photographs of ugly things, a decadent meal shared, unfinished & messy, all alluding to domestic human presence. I love her work as I'm a big fan of the school of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Carefully composed with soft colors and eloquent lighting, Letinsky revisits the classic still-life in the chaotic setting of contemporary consumer culture and creates a series of stunning visuals. Scope 2008. Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.

striking oil

saatchi gallery 2003-2005

county hall, south bank

Tim Noble & Sue Webster

Lets reflect back on the years past & get into the christmas spirit with "Sacrificial Heart", a giant bleeding heart studded with flashing colored lights and a dagger that goes through it. The ultimate Christian icon adapted by rockers and bikers worldwide in the form of a tattoo....one of my favorites from the old county hall Saatchi Gallery. Love, pain, romance and hate-the piece fuses high art with kitch and reminds us that we are all playful yet tremendously fragile. It's pulsating lights a delightful preview of what's to come, the perfect piece for the entrance of the gallery.

Richard Wilson-Saatchi Gallery Southbank

The other piece that I took with me was 20:50. The experience starts in the old victorian hallway, while you anxiously wait for your turn for the mysterious room. what is that toxic smell in the air? is it safe? Richard Wilson fills the an entire room waist-high in recycled engine oil (from which the piece takes its name). A walkway leads viewer into the space as they find themselves surrounded by oil on all sides. Amazing...a disturbing but fascinating optical illusion created by the dark reflective surface. The viewer cannot distinguish what is the ceiling & what is the floor, what is up & what is down.