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

Ari Marcopoulos 2010 Whitney Biennial

Detroit, 2010

'Although Marcopoulos shot Detroit while visiting friends in that city, this looped video conveys the energy and open-ended feel of the domestic scene it portrays. Detroit merges his attention to particularities of cultural identity with the intimacy of a home movie. The kids in the video skillfully adapt the gritty conventions of noise rock for an audience of family and friends.'

Don't piss it away

these two videos seem to pretty much sum up my approach to making...

End of Freaky Friday

Janice Kerbel