recycled toy jewellery: bear head necklace

Edit: I've put this for sale on Etsy here, for 20USD or 10GBP. If you're in London, I'll deliver it to you too.



This is now piece number 5. An unwanted head from a toy bear, hand cut, finished and hand painted, with little costume jewellery blingy eyes. I hope to start selling more items like this as soon as I can find more plastic animals to mutilate.

recycled toy jewellery: triceratops de los muertos

Another dinosaur ring. For the first time, I'm quite pleased with the painting on this one.

recycled art party this Tuesday 17th July

originally uploaded by dead insect \ /.

We're back again at Favela Chic for the Hungamunga recycled art party.

The idea is you bring scraps, cereal boxes, general junk, and we provide paints, glue and material for you to turn it into beautiful art. More details on the club myspace.

Live bands and DJs play too, and at some point, you dance.

Check out pictures from the last one on my flickr here.

dreams of flying: photography exhibition

Just a really beautiful set of pictures from an award winning photographer, Jan Von Holleben.


Click this picture for the whole set.

handmade urban vinyl mashup toys: idiotcreature_01

For the past few months, I've been buying bits of old toys from car boot sales when I can. The point of all this was so I could create unique toy mashups - cutting off different bits of different toys and recombining them to make new cute stupid creatures.

Anyway I just finished the first one and gave it away for someone's birthday.

unnamed idiotcreature_01


It's made from these two, whom I found for about 20p each in a charity shop near Shadwell.


I cut them to bits with scalpel and painstakingly reassembled them using various glues and putties, then painted it using brush and aerosol. It took about 2 hours work (on and off) to make this one.





I'll try make more soon. I want to do some plush ones too, but need more scraps of material and to learn to sew. I like how when I describe making it, the pronoun goes from "them" to "it" as they get combined.

human whack-a-mole game

The agency I work for, glue London, did an event where about 40 of us (out of about 100) created works of art, and we then had a boozy gallery exhibition night for us and our clients.

The theme was "what brought us to glue", and there were some truly great pieces. My effort was typically big, stupid and tacky - a human version of the arcade classic, Whack-a-Mole, where creatures pop up from holes and you have to bash them with a hammer.

So here it is. Hammer Creature Battle, being played on the exhibition night, Vinyl Factory, Soho. Watch out for the DandAD flag.




It was a lot of fun, but it paled in comparison to some of the other real art done by other gluers, my favourite being this one from Natalie Dean:



You can see more pictures from the party here.

If you'd like to know more about building Hammer Creature Battle, I put an instructable here.

make recycled art! club night this thursday 22nd march

info at www.myspace.com/hungamunga

This Thursday 22nd March, at Favela Chic (Great Eastern Street, nearest tube Old St), I’m helping a bit with this recycled art/craft club night. It’s a little bit to raise awareness of recycled environmental stuff, and little bit so that people who aren’t really ‘arty’ (i.e. haven't drawn anything more than a brand diagram for the past 10 years) can come and mess around and have fun. The idea is that:

1. People turn up with bits of rubbish, cans, boxes, wood, etc…

2. We provide glue, paints, staples, scraps, colours pens, general art stuff

3. Everyone sits around listening to music, getting drunk and having a good time making stuff, drawing, painting, whatever. Then we dance badly to the finest DJs.


this is a thing I made from cans, spoons and cartons at a previous event

The whole thing is going to be absolutely dope. Especially as my friend Ben is playing, who rocks. Hope to see you there! Info at www.myspace.com/hungamunga

we are the jumble

DSC02050, originally uploaded by dead insect \ /.

I saw this just off Brick Lane, Shoreditch, where the busy and jumble-esque market is. Brilliant, I thought, a jumble sale. Then I was like, hang on, it's probably not even a jumble sale, it might be a secret gig, or an art exhibition if it's in a studio.

I googled it and found this:

As part of its tentative exploration of the parameters of the transactional aesthetic, studio1.1 is pleased to present

WE ARE THE JUMBLE
15th - 25th Feb
(during Fashion Week, enrich yourself with our rags)
OPENING THURSDAY 15TH 6 - 9PM

pick your way through the grey area where the Duchampian ready-made meets conspicuous consumption, and jumble is born.

Which doesn't leave me much wiser. It's right next to my office, I'm going to go on Saturday the 24th at 12pm - anyone want to come? If there is no actual jumble I can actually buy with actual currency, I will perform my contemporary movement and object orientated piece "the dance of petrol and lighter".

more fish paintings

aerosols on hardboard, 120cm x 60cm

declarations of love

Love locks, originally uploaded by Massimo6342.

I found this photo on Flickr, from someone who'd commented me. What a sweet idea, using locks as declarations of love.

fish painting

48" x 24"
aerosol on hardboard

Merry Xmas everybody

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