Category Archives: High Streets
East London Artists | UEL Doctorate in Fine Art Showcase | June 2017
I made a new work entitled Repair Centre (2017) for my Doctoral showcase last month. Unfortunately the ‘arrangement’ I finally ended up exhibiting was far less successful than every single prior incarnation of the work. But these are the breaks! … Continue reading
The Sensorium Art Show – Affect and Social Media #3
These posters were my contribution to the Sensorium Art Show, curated by Mikey Georgeson and Dean Todd as part of the Affect and Social Media #3 conference at UEL. They were posted around the campus and perhaps one or two … Continue reading
Vernacular Aesthetics continued…
It’s been an interesting few months for opening up the discourse around the Vernacular Aesthetics of the Global City and indeed my registration document for my Doctorate is now due, and most likely called ‘Global Vernacular Aesthetics’. A nice contradictory … Continue reading
The Brand Nobody Knows video – finally!
I finally presented the fruit of my summer’s research at the beginning of September at the 8th Art of Management and Organisation Conference. Here it is: The video is made up of dozens of still photographs taken over six months … Continue reading
Wood Green High Road – an Ordinary Street between austerity and Brexit
We find ourselves in a strange limbo somewhere between ‘Austerity Britain’ and Brexit. How might one look upon and describe Wood Green High Road, its retail culture and its vernacular aesthetics at this particular moment? What does this mean for … Continue reading
Don’t forget BHS!
And of course another high-street brand about to go from Wood Green…
Intellectual Simulation 