School of Saatchi V School of Moogee

FACEBOOK GROUP JOIN MOOGEE’S CRUSADE AGAINST MEDIOCRITY http://www.facebook.com/groups.php#/group.php?gid=181984094372 Name: School of MOOGEE V School of Saatchi Category: Entertainment & Arts – Fine arts Description: JOIN THIS GROUP IF YOU BELIEVE THIS IS SIMPLY PR FOR SAATCHI NOT ART AND THAT CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE U.K. HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A [...]

Art World Friezing over???

Bloomberg reports that the London art market has fallen 80% in a year and that Sotheby’s and Christie’s sales alongside this year’s Frieze fair will collapse from £107 million to nearer £20 million. In the current climate people are not spending or looking for better value for money which means the Affordable Art Fair will [...]

Twang Scaffold

Twang Scaffold At Last! A collaborative regenerative interpretive art solution for urban squares utilising cross disciplinary theatre, building trades/ schizophrenia and gaffer tape and puppets Backed by several leading academic institutions, a bloke from Hucknall who runs a scaffold business and a few art students. ‘cutting edge building materials ‘ said The Builder ‘helps people in two minds to make it [...]

OXYMORON

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Hill of money – mountains of cash

It has come to my attention that the Arts Council of England. A glorious body of noble souls are at this time perusing some submissions for a large wad of cash – 12 X £5000,000 – for specific art projects related to the glorious Olympiad of 2012. Now I thought that every hair-brained, stupid artistic nonsense [...]

Field

field from Shaun Belcher on Vimeo.

getting back on track: latest project in progress

LATEST PROJECT: track Using images of ‘migrant’ plant life found along a disused railway line in Oxfordshire over which I am superimposing sets of three words which reflect on not only the migrant plant histories but also reflect wider current concerns with displacement, nationality and sense of place. The Didcot to Newbury and Southampton railway line [...]

Moogee at Goldfactory: July 2008..Woofism

Moogee the art dog has been savaging the pretentious, the idiotic and all the other manifestations of the I.A.W. (International Art World) for a few years now. This was Moogee’s first trip out of the kennel at the now defunct Egerton Studio in what was once the largest artists studios complex outside London. More of [...]

Suit of Nettles : Lincoln Collection 2008

12 paintings each related to a song on the album ‘Suit of Nettles’ (hear below). Drawing on American South Folk Art and contemporary ‘Modern Folk’ artists like Daniel Johnston and Margaret Kilgallen. As the Professor from Derby said ” this is not naive art..this is knowingly done” ..it takes a lot of knowledge to paint [...]

Photo-text

A series of low resolution images  from  South Oxfordshire which were then added to with texts. These were the first experiments in mixing text and photographs and the first time I explored the ‘hinterland’ between ‘artwork and poetry’ which are two key cornerstones of my artistic practice. The one word additions are not illustrative but explore [...]