Fine Artist, Poet, Songwriter, Multimedia Lecturer, Web designer. Based in Nottingham U.K.
The strange world of Shaun Belcher..cartoon dogs, dead country stars.....and ducks..
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Moogee the Art Dog
Time to close down the Arts Council ?: AXIS RANT
From the AXIS RANT page Feel free to bark back… Our new Ranter-in-Residence for February, Shaun Belcher, starts off on a topical, if controversial note, asking ‘has Arts Council England (ACE) failed? Do we really need it anyway?’. Shaun asks if the lottery years have set ACE up for a fall as we move into tighter financial times [...]
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 [...]
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nottingham CREATIVE BUSINESS awards Posted in art criticism, nottingham, nottingham art scene
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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 [...]Mailing List
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Limited Edition Suit of Nettles CD pack. July1st.
Limited to 50 copies this is a digipack enclosing a copy of a mini Suit of Nettles 'retro CD' plus images from the paintings series all enclosed in a cardboard box. Individual hand drawn CD.
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Trailer Star - Suit of Nettles
Ltd. Ed. 50 Art cover in card box to tie in with exhibition.
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James McSweeney: Blue River (… Continue
TSR 007
Trailer Star - Suit of Nettles
Ltd. Ed. 50 Art cover in card box to tie in with exhibition.
See and hear art show at
http://www.shaunbelcher.com/suit
TSR006
James McSweeney: Blue River (… Continue
Posted by Shaun Belcher on August 11, 2009 at 7:30pm
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Leonard Bullock
More Blues than Jazz? Not Garage Rock? Leonard Bullock, ‘To/For Whom It May Concern,’ 2001-2008 Oil, encaustic, polyurethane, venetian turpentine, spray paint, collaged fabric, car decals, monster decals, cat decals, mother of pearl, and painted fiberglass elements on polystyrol, 38 1/8 x 54 5/8 inches Interview http://badatsports.com/2009/episode-198-leonard-bullock/ Saatchi review: PAINTINGS Original letter ( response to a comment on SHARKFORUM) Dear Mr. [...]Time to close down The Arts Council? My AXIS RANT
From the AXIS RANT page Feel free to bark back… http://www.axisweb.org/dlForum.aspx?ESSAYID=18075 Our new Ranter-in-Residence for February, Shaun Belcher, starts off on a topical, if controversial note, asking ‘has Arts Council England (ACE) failed? Do we really need it anyway?’. Shaun asks if the lottery years have set ACE up for a fall as we move into tighter financial times [...]Saatchi..you having a laugh? LOL
I still in a state of shock but thought I’d cut and paste here as well just in case it all an administrative error and when I wake up all gone….still in an ironic world this as ironic as it gets! From: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/art_news/schaun_belcher_saatchi_online_critics_choice_by_victoria_chaine_mendrzyk/6192 Shaun Belcher is a prolific artist whose practice encompasses photography, painting, drawing, poetry [...]Withering away in the Jackson Cage?
Bruce Springsteen lyric from The River album Jackson Cage Down in Jackson Cage Well darlin’ can you understand The way that they will turn a man Into a stranger to waste away Down in the Jackson Cage Well I not exactly this far gone but there some pretty bad side-effects of the always-on internet life. As a lecturer in almost impossible to [...]Splintering…the web starts to unravel…
I have been reading some interesting post-iPad observations on the ‘t’internet as Peter Kay’s mum would call it and it all pointing to a happier bunch of mums and a way sadder and less happy bunch of ‘geeks’ or whatever you want to call us bloggers, internet users etc etc Basically this means that ‘tethered applications’ [...]© 2010 Created by Shaun Belcher on Ning. Create a Ning Network!
