#nicolayalexieve

[ghostofatree]

The Book of Learning had been sketchbook 19 and next was the Book of Gaps. I cannot yet archive that book because it recorded the years around loosing my amazing mum and I am not yet brave enough to revisit it in detail. It led to a show called Square Mile in #thebridewellstudiosandgallery but for now I will show sketchbook 21, after a period of grieving in which making art was impossible a few years later the Book of Lapis, the cover of which was dedicated to my protector Saint Derek of Dungeness in his Blue Lapis Pureland and based clumsily in his own gold-leaf Square covers. For some reason Houdini was there and the inner cover is a self portrait as shadow over the angel wings made by one of my excellent Foundationers. I was delighted to be invited by @spells_against_civilisation to join #notjustcollective and came up with some early lino cuts to honour dissident political groups such as the Diggers, The Levellers, The Suffragettes The Luddites, The Saboteurs etc. Plate 6 was a quote from Gerrard Winstanley and I printed this image into a gold-leafed spade for him. there was a vegan glass raised, (appropriately enough at this point in time as we as a culture start to wake up the murder, exploitation and privilege that has pretended to be acceptable to now) of to anti slavery local lad William Roscoe. Finally a little more success that year as the mighty Kitt Cherry had managed to get an article about my work mentioning Nicolay Alexyve. The article was taken down soon after so it was an honour to have been censored by Putin but I printed off a translation before that #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #linocut #derekjarman #derekjarmanblue #lapis #diggers #luddite #saboteur #queerartist #gerrardwinstanley #nicolayalexieve #sochiolympics (at The Georgian Quarter) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClgkNqNsa0_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ghostofatree]

The Book of Learning had been sketchbook 19 and next was the Book of Gaps. I cannot yet archive that book because it recorded the years around loosing my amazing mum and I am not yet brave enough to revisit it in detail. It led to a show called Square Mile in #thebridewellstudiosandgallery but for now I will show sketchbook 21, after a period of grieving in which making art was impossible a few years later the Book of Lapis, the cover of which was dedicated to my protector Saint Derek of Dungeness in his Blue Lapis Pureland and based clumsily in his own gold-leaf Square covers. For some reason Houdini was there and the inner cover is a self portrait as shadow over the angel wings made by one of my excellent Foundationers. I was delighted to be invited by @spells_against_civilisation to join #notjustcollective and came up with some early lino cuts to honour dissident political groups such as the Diggers, The Levellers, The Suffragettes The Luddites, The Saboteurs etc. Plate 6 was a quote from Gerrard Winstanley and I printed this image into a gold-leafed spade for him. there was a vegan glass raised, (appropriately enough at this point in time as we as a culture start to wake up the murder, exploitation and privilege that has pretended to be acceptable to now) of to anti slavery local lad William Roscoe. Finally a little more success that year as the mighty Kitt Cherry had managed to get an article about my work mentioning Nicolay Alexyve. The article was taken down soon after so it was an honour to have been censored by Putin but I printed off a translation before that #sketchbook #drawing #drawingsketch #nostalgia #memories #linocut #derekjarman #derekjarmanblue #lapis #diggers #luddite #saboteur #queerartist #gerrardwinstanley #nicolayalexieve #sochiolympics (at The Georgian Quarter) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBQs9UWgO7J/?igshid=p14v0x5x04bf