Lord Magpie this Saturday, 5th Feb

Poster by Ray

Update / Mou

A Ray in the Life should be finished by the end of the day. It can then be seen it at the 'Hong Kong Whispers' opening in Brixton on Wednesday. And then again at some point in Hong Kong. Details to come.

Coming Soon

A Ray In The Life: A Psychogeographical Negotiation


A new project with Raymond Wong and Oscar Oldershaw for the exhibition Hong Kong Whispers.

20th January -26th February 2011
Preview 19th January 2011 6.30-9pm

Contemporary Arts and Learning
198 Railton Road
London SE24 oJT

"Hong Kong Whispers is a group exhibition, which addresses the cultural and historical relationship between Hong Kong and the UK. Proposing a definition of an art exhibition analogous to a game of Chinese Whispers. The exhibition explores the miscommunications that happen in cross cultural art exhibition, and attempts to create a space in which meanings can be discussed, debated, and challenged."

As the Arts Council England cut their funding for the exhibition, our budget has been entirely provided by the Hong Kong Economics Office. So far, we've used it to buy well deserved kebabs.

http://www.wix.com/hongkongwhispers/hongkongwhispers

Collected early Lord Magpie videos

"So, school sucks as usual"

The Arsehole

I performed as the Cult Leader/Arsehole character in Spartacus Chetwynd's 'A Tax Haven Run By Women'. 

"At last I find something magical in the form of the eccentrically named Spartacus Chetwynd and her troupe of bizarre actors, performing A Tax Haven Run by Women, another of Frieze's special projects. Abject human seals drag themselves across the floor, their costumes a bloated rag-bag of remnants. A sinister looking chap called Cult Leader Asshole – a sort of pope – hangs about, while haughty senoras dance, and another gaggle of troupers, some with their foam-rubber, pipe-lagging entrails, make an incomprehensible appearance. There is a cat-bus, or a bus in the form of a cat, with too many crustacean-like legs, whose shape comes from a Manga animation. There is also a group of "women who refuse to grow old gracefully". They are warring with an "oppressed body-part puree", though I might be wrong."

- Adrian Searle, Guardian reveiw

"The women who refuse to grow old gracefully"


The Catbus

Seal orchestra

Spartacus with the Oppressed Puree during the intermission

Paul Kindersley

Reveiws:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/13/frieze-art-fair-2010-review

- Adrian Searle, Guardian

http://www.timeout.com/london/gallery/586/spartacus-chetwynd/1

- Time Out

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t6c5

- Grayson Perry Contemprary Art Special, Culture Show

http://londonist.com/2010/10/a_more_subdued_fair_than.php?gallery0Pic=4#gallery

- Londonist (nice picture)

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/article-23887689-lali-chetwynd-i-am-spartacus.do

- Ben Luke, Evening Standard (nice interview)

The Culture Show

Grayson Perry interviews Spartacus Chetwynd:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00bmbxy

I've been assisting with and performing in 'A Tax Haven Run By Women (In The Style Of A Luna Park Game Show)', Spartacus Chetwynd's Frieze commission.

She seems to be in all the papers! I will try to collect the photos and articles about it here when it's finished.

Annika Ström

I'll be working for Swedish artist Annika Ström at this years Frieze Art Fair.

Lord Magpie with Rowan Coupland

www.myspace.com/rowancoupland
I recommend seeing him if you get the chance. He's on tour at the moment promoting his album which features artwork by Ray Wong of Lord Magpie. I'll put a picture up when i find one.

Lord Magpie at the Goldsmiths Degree Show party

Live in Peckham! At the Goldsmiths BA Fine Art degree show after party, 2010.

Video by James Hedges.

On the Beach

Degree Show Installation