Marriage is punishment for shoplifting
Treating a space as a one off gallery and sites specifically is something that excites me, presenting its challenges to the artist and the voyeur. In this space 18 York Place it’s Georgian architecture are something to play with, even the remnants of the previous occupiers who used the rooms as offices, each floor colour coded each room door labelled, e.g. I.T room, Sonya’s office, the kitchen and reception.
I wanted to bring artists to Scarborough that perhaps would never dream of visiting let alone exhibiting in a not so very popular visual arts venue. Scarborough is a town stuck out on the famous East coast desert where the last train or bus to Scarborough from York or Leeds is about 9pm. Famous for its British holiday destination, according to some locals it’s the birth place of tourism, due to its famous spring discovered in the 1700’s.
I was thinking of a title, when I scanned through my WHSmith diary with it’s one line quotes at the bottom of every page, and I found ‘Garf, marriage is punishment for shoplifting, in some countries.’ Mike Myers, 1963-, Canadian actor (from 1992 film ‘Wayne’s World’) I came over in a flood of excitement and revived my interest in Wayne’s World, Youtubeing it and watching Garf do his dance to Jimmi Hendrix’s foxy lady, which I think would make a great keep fit routine. It makes you think back to the 90’s when we didn’t have www and these guys represented a fantasy with their home TV show. In their no special town ‘hi I’m in Delaware’.
I was interested to learn that Skarthi the founder Viking of Scarborough was not just a warrior he was also a poet. Unfortunately I failed to find any of his poems, but did source his brother Fleyn also a poet who is linked to Flamborough (a coastal village on a peninsular stuck about 7 miles out to sea) near Scarborough, on wikipedia, which one can enjoy listening to it spoken in it’s original language poems about a woman he had a long lasting thing for.
The artists I have invited to participate in the show are people I know that I’ve met along the way in my career, from Yorkshire Coast College to art school in Edinburgh, to my trip to Athens Biennial 2007 where I exhibited in the Young Athenians show
I thought it would be exciting to bring a group of artists together whose work I believe will hold an interesting conversation when brought together in the space of 18 York Place which was kindly offered rent and rates free by the Scarborough Council and is being supported by Create and Wold Top Brewery.
The Jolly Roger
Treating a space as a one off gallery and sites specifically is something that excites me, presenting its challenges to the artist and the voyeur. In this space 18 York Place it’s Georgian architecture are something to play with, even the remnants of the previous occupiers who used the rooms as offices, each floor colour coded each room door labelled, e.g. I.T room, Sonya’s office, the kitchen and reception.
I wanted to bring artists to Scarborough that perhaps would never dream of visiting let alone exhibiting in a not so very popular visual arts venue. Scarborough is a town stuck out on the famous East coast desert where the last train or bus to Scarborough from York or Leeds is about 9pm. Famous for its British holiday destination, according to some locals it’s the birth place of tourism, due to its famous spring discovered in the 1700’s.
I was thinking of a title, when I scanned through my WHSmith diary with it’s one line quotes at the bottom of every page, and I found ‘Garf, marriage is punishment for shoplifting, in some countries.’ Mike Myers, 1963-, Canadian actor (from 1992 film ‘Wayne’s World’) I came over in a flood of excitement and revived my interest in Wayne’s World, Youtubeing it and watching Garf do his dance to Jimmi Hendrix’s foxy lady, which I think would make a great keep fit routine. It makes you think back to the 90’s when we didn’t have www and these guys represented a fantasy with their home TV show. In their no special town ‘hi I’m in Delaware’.
I was interested to learn that Skarthi the founder Viking of Scarborough was not just a warrior he was also a poet. Unfortunately I failed to find any of his poems, but did source his brother Fleyn also a poet who is linked to Flamborough (a coastal village on a peninsular stuck about 7 miles out to sea) near Scarborough, on wikipedia, which one can enjoy listening to it spoken in it’s original language poems about a woman he had a long lasting thing for.
The artists I have invited to participate in the show are people I know that I’ve met along the way in my career, from Yorkshire Coast College to art school in Edinburgh, to my trip to Athens Biennial 2007 where I exhibited in the Young Athenians show
I thought it would be exciting to bring a group of artists together whose work I believe will hold an interesting conversation when brought together in the space of 18 York Place which was kindly offered rent and rates free by the Scarborough Council and is being supported by Create and Wold Top Brewery.
The Jolly Roger
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