Viva Brighton Issue #48 February 2017
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ART<br />
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COMMIT TO A PATH OF SORDID GLORY<br />
COPING WOLF FULL OF COPING PILLS<br />
HAVE A FUCKING PARTY<br />
along as I’m finishing the little fine details. I’m unashamed about it. I<br />
don’t choose to hide anymore. Like with my job - as a mental-health<br />
peer worker - part of my everyday is sharing my lived experience and<br />
my recovery story with people, and the art is an integral part of that. Art<br />
is very cathartic for me.<br />
What’s with all the cats? The Cats of the Roman Empire! Oh, man.<br />
Once I started painting I became fixated on a particular shape; it looked<br />
a bit like a shield, a basic cat-face shape. Everything I painted became a<br />
fucking cat. Like, everything. It was partly funny and partly demented.<br />
To stop me from destroying every single painting with a cat face, I cut<br />
out lots and lots of bits of cardboard and, whenever I felt a compulsion<br />
to paint a cat face, I would make a little cardboard cat. And then once<br />
I was done I would get rid of them, put them outside and leave them<br />
wherever I was going for someone to find.<br />
What’s this about a werewolf picture swap at the show? I collect<br />
werewolf drawings, but I’ve got strict rules. I would never ask anyone<br />
directly for one, but if someone owes me something, or if I’ve done a<br />
good deed for somebody, I’ll say, ‘you know what, a werewolf drawing<br />
will do it’. So that’s the currency. I’ll put up a load of cat paintings on the<br />
wall at the show and, if people want a cat, they can trade me a werewolf<br />
drawing. Win-win. Lizzie Lower<br />
Jazz Up Your Lizard, 1st - 5th, Gallery Lock In, Little Western Street.<br />
stevemurison.blogspot.co.uk<br />
WHISPER SOME MORE YOU SWEET DEVIL<br />
IT’S NEVER JUST A CAT<br />
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