LUCHA LIBRE
MANFLOWER
ARMAOUS
MIDAS
BEERS& BEARS
le bain
FRIEDA KAHLO HUMMING BIRD
opposites attract 2018
nature not culture in private ownership
Hot & Delicious
Card board and packaging mixed with black ball point pen.
The WEE ORANGE MAN 16/90 vision
PRIVATEW COLLECTION: San Francisco
Packaging and ballpoint pen the story here is about the orange order and it's obsession with the battle of the boyne 1690 and how it encourages protestant people to look back and fear the future.
RELAX
In the 1980's the record Relax was banned in the uk yet it managed to top the charts . I feel this record really helped change the censorship laws.
My picture reflects those times.
IMPROVING BUT Belfast Still haS someway to go
STRING VEST AND TRUNKS
Using old net backs from onions, cardboard and ballpoint pen
The picture depicts two men in an embrace art a disco.
GAY nights held at THE DELTA, CHARIOT ROOMS, the carpenters WHERE secret places in belfast were belfast's gay community would spend a few hours having a goodtime before sunrise came along and everyone had to go back in their closets.
Shankill Sheila
In honour of a good friend who won the first ever Gay Miss Belfast and met his future wife whilst delivering his drag show in Paisley park. a TOUGH N ROUGH SOCIAL CLUB IN WEST BELFAST.
Sweet dreams and I HOPE HEAVEN IS A DISCO
All in a days work
suicide in belfast was the no 1. pandemic prior to covid 19 for young unemployed protestant males living in loyalist areas.
Let down by politicians and feeling left behind created a vicious circle
rejection and with no prospects for building a long term future leads people to the brink.
PRIVATE COLLECTION :CO.ANTRIM
PRIDE A DEEPER LOVE
PRIVATE COLLECTION: LONDON
This was rejected by the Royal Ulster Academy 2019 but was welcomed by the seahorse gallery belfast as part of the pride celebrations in July.
belfast art galleries are fearful of isolating themselves from core funding and rarely challenge the establishment controlled largely by fundamentalists. It's easier to bury your head and not take on any battles after all it's only art and if we ignore it might just disappear.
SHOW YOU XXXXING CARE
GENTLE WARRIORS
THE BONDING EXCERCISE
SWINGING AND SHARING
UNITED BROTHERHOOD
ICARUS {THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH }
private collection : belfast
Another rejected submission to 2020 royal ulster society
Rumour implied it was too explicit after being shortlisted for exhibition it was rejected.
This picture represents for me the need to keep trying, never give up keep going unfortunately for icarus his time in the sun flying high was short lived before crashing to his death.
Arts funding in northern ireland is very uptight and galleries and curators fear funding cuts from our government bodies which tend to be right wing and disapproving .
2020 the summer of covid 19
The picture shows a woman making a splash in a pool whilst a man sunbathes whilst social distancing.
the space between is alluring them to a deadly challenge.
