by no means a definitive list some stuff that i like sound art print cinema: reggae, dub, ska, roots & branches: the abyssinians/ african head charge/ al campbell/ alpha blondy/ althea & donna/ alton ellis/ aswad/ augustus pablo/ benjamin zephaniah/ beres hammond/ biblical/ big youth/ bim sherman/ blackbeard/ black roots/ black slate/ black uhuru/ bob marley/ buju banton/ bunny wailer/ burning spear/ byron lee & the dragonaires/ carlton & the shoes/ carroll thompson/ christafari/ the cimarons/ clancy eccles/ clement dodd/ the congos/ cornel campbell/ count ossie/ creation rebel/ culture/ dandy livingstone/ dave barker/ delroy wilson/ dennis alcapone/ dennis bovell/ dennis brown/ derrick harriott/ derrick morgan/ desmond dekker/ dillinger/ don carlos/ don drummond/ don letts/ dr.alimantado/ dr. israel/ dub syndicate/ duke reid/ eddy grant/ eek-a-mouse/ the ethiopians/ freddie mcgregor/ the gaylads/ the gladiators/ gregory isaacs/ the heptones/ the hippy boys/ hopeton lewis/ horace andy/ hugh mundell/ ijahman/ the in crowd/ inner circle/ i roy/ israel vibration/ the itals/ jackie mittoo/ janet kay/ jimmy cliff/ joe gibbs/ john holt/ johnny clarke/ johnny nash/ judge dread/ judy mowatt/ junior byles/ junior murvin/ justin hinds/ keith hudson/ ken boothe/ ken parker/ the kingstonians/ king tubby/ lee perry/ linton kwesi johnson/ laurel aitken/ linval thompson/ lloyd charmers/ lloyd parks/ lone ranger/ lucky dube/ mad professor/ marcia griffiths/ matumbi/ max romeo/ the maytones/ michael prophet/ michael rose/ the mighty diamonds/ mikey dread/ misty in roots/ musical youth/ the paragons/ peter tosh/ phillip frazer/ phyllis dillon/ the pioneers/ pluto shervington/ prince buster/ prince far i/ prince lincoln/ prince jammy/ ranking ann/ ras michael & the sons of negus/ the revolutionaries/ rico/ rita marley/ roland alphonso/ roots radics/ roy shirley/ rupie edwards/ shabba ranks/ sir collins/ sizzla/ the skatalites/ slim smith/ sly & robbie/ steel pulse/ sugar minott/ susan cadogan/ symarip/ tapper zukie/ the tennors/ theo beckford/ third world/ tippa irie/ tommy mccook/ toots & the maytals/ twinkle brothers/ ub40/ the upsetters/ u roy/ the viceroys/ the wailers/ winston francis/ yabby you/ yellowman/ zap pow & thousands more.
"reading in babylon"
my favourite rock bands are the clash, the beatles and the jam, patti smith and lou reed my favourite rock poets, david bowie a genius/ others i like rock, punk, postpunk etc: a certain ratio/ adam & the ants/ the adverts/ alternative tv/ asian dub foundation/ the associates/ at the drive-in/ au pairs/ the b-52's/ basement 5/ bauhaus/ billy bragg/ billy childish/ blondie/ blur/ buzzcocks/ can/ captain beefheart/ crass/ the cure/ the damned/ the dead 60's/ dead kennedys/ depeche mode/ devo/ the doors/ elastica/ elvis costello & the attractions/ the fall/ fugazi/ fun boy three/ the futureheads/ gang of four/ gary numan & tubeway army/ generation x/ the go-go's/ hard-fi/ heaven 17/ the human league/ hüsker dü/ ian dury & the blockheads/ iggy pop & the stooges/ japan/ the jesus & mary chain/ joe jackson/ john cooper clarke/ johnny thunders & the heartbreakers/ jonathan richman & the modern lovers/ joy division/ kaiser chiefs/ kate bush/ the kinks/ kleenex/ kraftwerk/ the lambrettas/ the libertines/ magazine/ mc5/ neu/ new age steppers/ new order/ new york dolls/ oasis/ the ordinary boys/ patrik fitzgerald/ penetration/ pere ubu/ pixies/ the police/ public image limited/ radio 4/ the rakes/ ramones/ the raincoats/ richard hell & the voidoids/ the rifles/ robert wyatt/ the rolling stones/ roxy music/ the ruts/ scritti politti/ secret affair/ sex pistols/ siouxsie & the banshees/ the slits/ the small faces/ the smiths/ soft cell/ sonic youth/ spizz/ stiff little fingers/ subway sect/ suede/ supergrass/ swell maps/ talking heads/ tears for fears/ television/ throbbing gristle/ t-rex/ tuxedomoon/ ultravox/ the undertones/ the velvet underground/ the who/ wire/ x-ray spex/ xtc and thousands more/ 2-tone era: the beat/ dexy's midnight runners/ madness/ the selecter/ the specials.
"was an angel"
amedeo modigliani/ andy warhol/ banksy/ damien hirst/ david hockney/ francis bacon/ georges braque/ henri matisse/ jackson pollock/ jamie reid/ jasper johns/ jean-michel basquiat/ joan miró/ marcel duchamp/ mark rothko/ pablo picasso/ paul cézanne/ paul gauguin/ roy lichtenstein/ salvador dali/ toulouse-lautrec/ tracey emin/ vincent van gogh/ walter battiss/ wassily kandinsky.
aldous huxley/ allen ginsberg/ anne sexton/ arthur rimbaud/ benjamin zephaniah/ billy childish/ charles dickens/ d.h.lawrence/ dylan thomas/ e.e.cummings/ emily dickinson/ ernest hemingway/ fyodor dostoevsky/ george orwell/ hunter s.thompson/ jack kerouac/ j.d.salinger/ j.g.ballard/ jim carroll/ john steinbeck/ joseph conrad/ patti smith/ sylvia plath/ t.s.eliot/ virginia woolf/ w.h. auden/ wilfred owen/ william blake/ william burroughs.
i am a self-taught artist, writer, photographer and spoken word/sound experimentalist. i am from south africa originally but i now live in my ancestral home ireland. i do not define myself by nationality, race or religion but like others am influenced by my roots and experiences. i am here because i would like to meet like-minded people and make contacts in the fields of art, writing and music. creative energy is a positive forcefield, and more needed at this time in our history than ever before. just like blood and oxygen, it is vital. i am passionate about freedom of expression, human rights, ecology, the state of the world, the state of our very fragile and volatile humanity... i know that neither you nor i can effect positive change on our own, but am encouraged by the concept of a combined effort.
besides being very involved with painting and art i hope to have a collection published featuring my poetry, examples of which i will post on here from time to time. as well as that i am working on my second novel and looking for a publisher for them both. i am recording a lot of my material and considering the possibility of bringing out an album. i am also hoping to do a lot more live readings of my work.
i paint mostly with acrylics, but also use other paints including watercolours; whatever is at my disposal really. i use a lot of recycled materials including cardboard and "found" objects in my art. my art influences are a mixture of urban/ new world/ old world and rural. i particularly like people and "ethnic" culture and customs. i am influenced by current affairs and the human continuum. i am also influenced by the d.i.y. aspect, attitude, journalistic approach and sound of punk and postpunk musics; also the look and the graphics. i am interested in third world art, particularly african; and street art including graffiti. essentially i suppose i am an outsider artist, but am influenced by major movements in the history of art including cubism, pop art, surrealism, action painting and more recently stuckism. the spirituality, social observation and righteousness of roots reggae music and rastafari also inspires me.
in my writing i am inspired by many things; but social observation, the human experience (the good and often the bad), the nature of creativity, and also spirituality (but not religion) inform much of my work.
join the dots in art, music and writing is what i endeavour to do with my work.
i'd like to meet: art agents. art galleries. art lovers. working artists. publishers. promoters. readers. musicians: reggae sound systems, punk, d.i.y. etc. film makers. photographers. punks. rastafarians. soul rebels.
unless you are a registered publisher with a proven track record in publishing please don't invite me. i will accept zines & journals if they appeal to me aesthetically. please don't invite me if you talk, talk, talk about changing the world; get out there and actually do something for once. i am a quiet and reserved person and not at all into the mass poetry, hobby group thing on here; i don't have the time for it anyway. i am not interested in adding self-proclaimed critics either, unless they want to buy my canvases!
i am an anti-stereotype!
"new art riot"
disclaimer: if i publish something on here which sounds or looks like it might be personal, it doesn't automatically follow that it is about me or anybody else that i know for that matter. that is why the process is known as creative, but if you're an artist or a writer you already know that. i am also allowed to change my mind, seemingly contradict myself, stop and start over or even completely change direction; it is called life!
i have a page up at www.artistsilove.com
i don't sell art from this page per se, but welcome inquiries and am available for commissions.
"mama"
all of the material on my site is protected by u.s. and international copyright laws. no republication or duplication of my intellectual property, in any form or medium, is permitted without my consent. if you would like to use anything please ask me.
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow. (H W Longfellow)
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. (Orson Welles)
You have a great w/e too Sean, get yourself over to Facebook, lots of great people over there, sharing poetry :) I meant what I said, that piece is powerful, & publishable, well it should be, but that doesn't mean it will be, as we know. See you soon!
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that would be spectacular...really...sigh....have to work though...(bartender..wee hours) but that's okay, love the long drive home to settle at 3 am. lol. Thanks much...;)
