My painting Georgie Plays Dead is on the wall of the Ben Oakley Gallery in Greenwich this month. Georgie was a friend from college in the 70's who studied sculpture but would also enact spontaneous performance art pieces. His work was very ahead of its time and people often would laugh at what he was doing. I have since seen sculpture with dead animals, glass weapons, spacemen and old age pensioners wearing machine guns, all ideas that he explored in great detail at the time. In my painting he is performing the climax of a fight with fake blood and wearing an original 1977 Seditionaries shirt.
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