Home

An area of town where homeless hang out. A piece called `Home` cos home is where the heart is. Welded metal frame with three potato prints of hearts.

Shrine - Hedonism

Shrine to Hedonism

Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, trapped in the cycle.

Found shoe, welded metal cage.

Placed behind night-club in Hanley.

Gadgets for Life - Contact

Street Tools for Life – Contact.

For emergency use only. In the event of breakdown in communication, break glass and use phone.

Plastic box with mobile phone embedded in plastic.

Placed on main street near shopping precinct.

Gadgets for Life - Insight

Street Tools for Life – Insight.

For Emergency use only. In the event of loss of insight, use switch to illuminate the situation.

Metal light switch, welded steel.

Placed on main street near shopping precinct.

Fish at the Baltic

A successful trip to Newcastle!

Tate - StIves

Bland, gray, stuffy, up-its-self, what more can I say about Tate StIves except maybe living on it`s name. Well, there was a bit of colour added if only for a day.

Barcelona

Back from a trip to Barcelona. Tagged these spots.

Money Tree - BBC

Money Tree – An object symbolising disgust and anger at waste and greed.
Over the last few months we have learned a lot about how licence fees are spent by the venerable BBC. The obscene fees for over-rated performers, the obnoxious and consistent greed of executives when filling in expences claims. I wanted to say something about this and created `Money Tree`, which has been fixed to the wall of BBC Manchester over the weekend. Welded mild steel, conctrete, resin and a Five-pound note. It represents the fruitfulness of the upper branches compared to the bareness of the lower levels. Concrete `notes` scattered around the base are the wasted fruit which are not used for constructive program making.
Fish

Fished at Stoke Gallery

"This is a challenging exhibition and some content is of an adult nature."
So says the blurb for the exhibition of works by Banksy et al. Well, I don`t think so, none of this was edgey or challenging. Where is the spark and fire of these guys? Putting this work on the white, safe, gallery wall has diluted it to mere marks on paper. No social context or bite.

The gallery has been `fished`.

Boom & Bust II

In response to G20 - Fished Wilmslow, apparent capitalist capital of the world! Royal Bank of Scotland.

Boom & Bust

Fish is `ere!

Bust I -
coloured concrete.

First hit `n run in Carlisle. "Boom & Bust" economy - sound familiar? What are the banks playing at? Do they feel guilty?

Artist Statement

The gallery is confinement, a prison for art. Let it out on the streets, let art growl and be in your face. Let art devour the narrow minded. Fish has a history of placing sculpture in rural and urban space. This blog is a record of a new thread, a new campaign in the war against the boring and mediocre. So, let it be.