Better late than never!

Ins Kino has launched its first collection just in the nick of time for SS'11. - a capsule collection of women's wear silk shirts, hand printed and constructed 100% in London.

Aside from frantic sessions in the print studio and cycling round London delivering samples like a very inefficient courier, I don't feel like I've done much of the actual production work myself. Its been a throughly collaborative process getting this baby off the ground; and there are many friends to whom I am much indebted -

Hanna Sager Forsberg for the pattern cutting (who also creates beautifully simple clothes, check out her website...)

Anawoura and Rahima for the sewing

Mat from Playarea for the logo and general egging on

Rob from lcf for the digital print assistance

Dan for use of the studio (Dan makes lovely bespoke wallpapers and furnishings, http://www.danielheath.com)

And Lark Rising for the constant consultations.

Phew. Phewey! So there you go. I'm really pleased with it. Hope you like it too.

All thats left now is securing stockists...

Fashion tourism in Antwerp

Dogs invigilating in galleries, Walter and me, bread and sellotape; a lovely juxtaposition. It is now my ambition to have my clothes stocked in the RA shop down Kloosterstraat. One day...

Know your garden!

Just finished reading this seminal book which gives real insight to early '70s thinking. Pretty cosmic stuff. Wicked cover by Alan Aldridge too.

There is a river flowing now very fast

A friend gave me this. Sounds exciting doesn't it?

There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World

Installation by Chris Cobb in the Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco where books were re-organised according to their colour. Makes so much more sense than the Dewey Decimal system n'est-ce pas?

Fondu

Found these old postcards of Cheddar caves at the Kingsland Waste. I think the yellow is supposed to represent molten cheese.

Whoooopiii

I'm off to California for a month to find some inspiration.

Crayons and Toothbrushes

Blues

My photo was published in the yesterday's Guardian Weekend supplement as part of a competition on the theme of colour.

Fine Cell Work at the V&A

Courtesy of Fine Cell Work, I helped out at the V & A's launch evening of the HMP Wandsworth quilt commission as part of their seminal 'Quilts 1700-2010' show. Fine Cell Work are a charity who teach and promotote needlework as rehabilitative practice to prison inmates. The above quilt was designed and constructed entirely by men from Wandsworth prison, the unusual structure derived from the hexagonal shape of the prison building itself. It's brilliant what they do. Go see!

Nevermind

Last night I watched a Nirvana tour video and then some of Stan Brakhage's hand painted films (all on VHS, no less) and marvelled at how they were both a product of the mid-90s and then lamented the loss of this lovely coloured aesthetic which I failed to recognise for what it was when it was actually happening, perhaps because I was 10 years old. Then I coloured in these rocks.

'In reality light is either a particle or a wave. In art it is solid'.

Recent small scale drawings influenced in part by conversations with artist Jo Lewington about relative and ultimate reality, which I am trying hard to understand. Also reading up on Joseph Albers and Goethe colour theory. My obsession with spattering continues. More on this to follow...

RIP Lee McQueen

The world is a poorer place.

Carrot

Carrot costume I made for a Los music video. Other vegetables available on request.

Performance Rules

I attended two err performance/happennings last year. Marina Abramovich Presents at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester in July and Subtle Mob, London curated by Duncan Speakman and chums. Neither bore much resemblance to the other, except for their reliance upon the participant’s commitment to utter openness for the whole duration of the piece. I didn’t know what I was letting myself in for or what or what might be asked of me. The idea was to turn up and put yourself at the mercy of the curator. And voluntary submission is a great thing! Putting my trust in the, as it turned out, very capable hands of the artist was on both accounts hugely enlightening. Of course it was! A good exercise in learning not to be fearful of potential humiliation - what a waste of worry that is.

Jacket

Finally finished making my jacket. The hexagons are all hand embroidered in satin stitch.

Lead Squid

My acting debut! in music video for The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, cleverly filmed and composed by Jason Kohnen using cine 8 film footage in June, deepest darkest Sommerset.