‘hashtag gorgon selfharm selfie’
[acrylic on 80x30cm canvas]

‘All who set eyes upon this girl will die.’

One can imagine that this fact would not be conducive to high self-esteem.  I use this idea at first in a playful manner to suggest how she may exploit modern technology – to connect with those she cannot physically be around.

The selfie of the painting is also a mirror to existing culture, in which implied meaning is far more serious. In our modern world, there are so many troubled youths who feel so ostracised from society that they use their online connection to express their pain, through acts of self-harm.

i dont usually like to explain what my paintings are about – but this one is very different – this stuff needs to be talked about.

self-harm, and so many other mental health related issues are ignored or stigmatised. and that is never going to help. if you know people who are hurting – help them. please.

anyway.

this painting needs to be adopted. get in touch via the contact page of you’re interested [link]. and prints are available over here [link]

some friends of mine who run good vibrations magazine [link] were putting on a techno night in liverpool. the idea was that it would be monster-themed to tie in with the cover of the latest issue [which i'll tell you about soon!]

there would be burnt-out smouldering wrecks in the club, evacuation tunnels linking areas, old B&W godzilla movies projected against the walls, and they drafted me in to help decorate the DJ booth.

they simply asked for teeth  at the top and bottom of the booth’s window. but we ended up going for this…

it’s pretty big – the chair should give you an idea of the scale!

here are a couple of photos of how it looked during the night. this first one is stolen from one of the DJs - sneakbeats [link]

and this one shot (which is stolen from good vibrations mag [link]), shows the view from INSIDE the DJ booth! turned out pretty cool eh.

if you’re interested you can even checkout the live set from sneakbeats [link]