Video artist Lisa Byrne gives an exclusive interview to Xavier Zapata about her recent work The Taxi Trilogy. I was riding in a taxi in Wales, on my way to Bridgend in utter darkness. An urge to fill the gloom got me talking to the taxi driver. He spoke of how he’d just got back [...]
A Non-Ironic Reenactment of Jade Goody’s Death
Several of our writers, including interviewer extraordinaire Wil Crisp, got down to the Guy Hilton Gallery on Sunday afternoon for a re-enactment of Jade Goody’s death. If it sounds strange… it was. Wil managed to get an exclusive interview with controversial artist Mark McGowan, who spoke about the piece. Check out Wil’s interview. The Guy [...]
Zero Cents: post-modern graffiti thug?
My initial impression of Zero Cents was ‘Get me away from him.’ I am glad to say though, after he had finished his joint, relaxed a little and I had stopped staring at him like I wanted out, things warmed up. Forget Banksy, Zero Cents is the street art phenomenon of the future. Zero Cents: [...]
AME72: A Mancunian in Tel Aviv
Raised ‘up North’, AME has a tinge of Mancunian swagger about him, but meeting him on the beachfront of Tel Aviv is not merely a dodgy experience for me. AME is a full time guerrilla artist, making his living from doing street art and selling work to buyers around the world. He has to be [...]
