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I just became a member of the very cool West London Art Factory.

So yesterday I spent the day with the very talented Jewel Gooby, the owner of the West London Art Factory and she showed me around the studios there and how to use all the equiment.
I made my first print there....the all new Mad in England!! I am going to be selling these for just £10, with £2 going to Reel News. I only have a few, so you need to get down to the Treatment Rooms Collective HQ for the opening of our new show - details to follow....

For more details about the studios at the Art Factory

Taking Liberty's now extended....

Well the pop up shop in a studio has been going so well...that we are extending it up until Xmas...so you still have a few days to make that trip West and bag yourself some real bargins....

Final last days of the Taking Liberty's pop up shop in a studio.......

Well it's been great and thanks to so many of you art lovers and friends who have popped down to my studio over the last few weeks...I'm sure you will all agree that it looks great and that there are many bargins to be had....with 90% going to the artists and 10% going to Reel News we can all afford to shop a bit ethically this year. Good news is, that it's been so successful that we have decided to stay open this Mon, Tue 12 -8pm - with a lovely little Winter Solstice bash to finish on this Wednesday. So go on, make that special little trip down to the Treatment Rooms HQ, formally known as the Black Sheep Curiosity Shop and bag yourself a bargin...photos to follow, but remember there is always new stuff arriving...Gaye Black is due to bring stuff in this week.....

Mad in England - new commission...

I just had to show off this baby I just finished as a private commmission....Very very chuffed with the end piece....

Taking Liberty's - the new pop up shop!!!

Puzzled how to make ends meet this christmas? Does your nearest and dearest expect beautiful gifts on an ever tightening budget? Well you don't want to shop up the west end then...shop with us were shonky but we make beautiful fings, its pikey but its pukka! Love Dotmaster, The Treatment Rooms Crew and good friends....

Introducing Super Vag......my activist alter ego......

Today there is a rather interesting article in the Evening Standard - 'The naming of parts; a new frankness about vaginas...by the respected writer Liz Hoggard. Liz interviewed me for the article and I did provide a few pics...but unfortunately they were deemed a little too much for the Standard...notice there isn't a vulva in focus in the actual piece. But hey - full marks for getting a piece about the undeniable rise of the vagina in popular culture into the mainstream. Way to go sistah!!..And remember there is still time to sew your own vagina and add it to the now legendary Shoreditch Sisters WI vag quilt (Tracey Emin eat your heart out and make way for the Craftivists).
Anyway, I thought now would be a good time to reveal my new activist alter ego - Super Vag, as photographed by the very talented Neelum Bassrall. Read the full article at This Is London

Dada - The Trojan Horse is vandalised and found a new home....

Unbelievably, my horse was vandalised within hours of it hitting the streets of Cheltenham...and there was I thinking this was a posh town. Three horses were attacked, so I am not taking it personally.
Anyway, after being repaired by myself and Nick Reynolds it was decided that it would be better to have the sculpture indoors.
Read the full article at This is Gloucestshire

Building an Iron Age Roundhouse.....with Touchwood Trees.

Just spent a couple of days with some very good friends of mine, (activist and artist's who I have been working with for many years) who are currently building an Iron age roundhouse in some woods in Kent. They are running workshops, so if you fancy learning some skills in building substainable housing check them out .

More details at Touchwood Trees

Dada - The Trojan Horse...leaves the studio for its new home in Cheltenham....

I have been having to work day and night to complete the horse, to that I can go up North on a special ceramica/enamel course - but yes it is finished and I am mighty proud of this piece.
Not sure what Cheltenham Festival will make though....as there is some pretty hard hitting facts and pictures about the abuse that the horse has had to endure at the hands of man.

Waving goodbye to Little Miss DMT.......

Finally, my double headed elephant has left the studio...and will go on display in Sept in Milan.
I simply could not of completed her without a wonderful group of helpers and I thank all of you so very much...Team Treatment Rooms - you know who you are..!!!!!!

Mary Bamber - purchased by the Musem of Liverpool !!!

SOCIAL JUSTICE & RADICALS – Mary Bamber – A Revolutionary Woman
Mary Bamber - has just been brought by the Museum of Liverpool and will go on permanant exhibiton there....

Artists: Carrie Reichardt & Nick Reynolds
Location: St George’s Plateau

An informative mosaic figure of suffragette and social revolutionary Mary Bamber – once described by Sylvia Pankhurst as the ‘finest, fighting platform speaker in the country’ – reclaims the original ‘Speakers’ Corner’ on St George’s Plateau just as she did in the early 1900s.

Draw inspiration from Mary’s achievements, have your say and discover more about those women who dedicated their lives to bringing justice and equality to all.

Dada - The Trojan Horse

My horse for Cheltenham is coming along nicely...with Nick Reynolds busy re-modeling it to make it a fine creature....hope Cheltenham appreciates our hard work!!!

The Rise of the Non-Conformists Part 2

Yes its back, bigger than ever...The Whitecross Street Party - held in the heart of London’s internationally renowned art scene over the weekend of the 23th and 24th of July. The street will be transformed and include some the world's most creative living non-conformist artists. The urban art exhibition continues along Whitecross Street until 19th August 2011. Happily the area famous for its historical creative's, dissidents and mavericks will now see again 'en mass' - Rise of the non- conformists.

Please come along, look out for the Tiki Truck and my flying eyeballs.........

Guest Speaking tonight in Oxford

I am talking tonight at the Catalyst Club being held for the first time in Oxford at the stunning Grove House.

Busy working on the new elephant for Milan....

Been very busy in my studio, with a whole team of lovely friends and volunteers, who have been helping me mosaic Phoolan's double headed sister for the new Milan show.

Horse Parade in Chelthenham

I have just been asked to take part in the Fine Form; Horse Parade. It is an an unusual exhibition of life-size horses and sees artists faced with an innovative blank canvas to experiment on this summer in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Cheltenham Festival.Organised by Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Fine Form: Horse Parade, a special exhibition of unique equine art, will be on show from Monday 1 August 2011.

Watch this space....

Phoolan's double headed brother or sister....

Just about to start working on a double headed elephant for the Milan Elephant Parade...am I am sucker for punishment or what.
Expect something very different this time round...and watch this space!

Object of desire...Time Out.

Nice little write up in Time Out....I am apparently the object of desire.....

Right Royal Mug

Ceramic production of Royal Wedding Memorabilia is feverishly underway as the World supposedly goes ‘Kate-n-Will’ Crazy.

So I thought I would produce my very own subversion of the much sought after Royal Collection.

My latest artwork is produced in the UK by ‘Heraldic Pottery’ in Stoke on Trent and has a Limited Edition of only 500. . At a price of only £40 per piece, you’d better get yours before they’re all gone! Each Mug is made from the finest English Bone China and there’s been no expense spared producing the UK’s Underground Version of the stuffy Royal approved collection. A true ‘Anarchy Heirloom’ to be passed down from generation to generation! In addition, £5 from the sale of every ‘mug’ is being donated to fund frontline video activists ‘Reel News’. These priceless artworks arrive to your door in their very own signed and numbered certificate.
If you wish to buy one...then click on the Buy Now button on the right hand side ......quick before they all go.......

Solo show at Ink_d - Brighton...

Yes, finally I have my first solo show...
"Mad in England...."

As we build up towards the media mania of The Royal Wedding, I have has decided I just can’t take it anymore – Mad in England represents the Great British Empire as ‘Cruel Britannia’ through my unique anarchic vision. Subverting many of the British Establishment icons; Union Jacks, Royalty and Quaint English Tea Sets and customs, I set out to smash the system but in rather genteel way……

As always, my work will be some of the most radical, politically charged (and really quite weird) ceramic and mosaic work you are ever likely to see in the UK.

Private view is on March 10th at Ink_d Gallery...From 6pm – 8.30pm
96 North Road, Brighton BN1 1YE

Please RSVP
gallery@ink-d.co.uk

http://www.ink-d.co.uk/whats-on/

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