The Medusa Fora

An artist inspired by The Pogues

"LULLABIES OF LONDON, FAIRYTALES OF NEW YORK" (Yup!)

Private View: 7.30-9.30 pm tonight! All welcome
Venue: GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill, SE5
Exhibition Dates: 29th April – 14th May
GX Gallery
43 Denmark Hill
SE5 8RS
London
United Kingdom
p: +44 (0) 20 7703 8396
f: +44 (0) 20 7277 2658
e: info@gxgallery.com
w: http://www.gxgallery.com


Ed's a London painter and regular at the Pogues London shows for nearly 20 years

His last two exhibitions at the GX Gallery "20,000 Streets Under The Sky" (after the London novel by Patrick Hamilton) and "London Calling" (no explanation needed!) have been complete sell-outs. And this year he's added New York ...

"Ed Gray exposes the richness and contrast of London life in a most exciting way. Like Hogarth did two centuries ago, Gray manages to strike a good balance between stylisation of imagery and the reality of the subject matter, or as the artist himself says, 'to search for the glitter amongst the grime.' Going from Soho down to Brixton and from Columbia Road across to Billingsgate, Gray searches for characters and places to paint. This young British artist depicts isolation amidst engagement, frustration amidst calm, boredom amidst excitement and love amongst anger with breathtaking accuracy and artistic vision."

The link between what he's doing with paint and what MacGowan has done with song (Transmetropolitan, Old Main Drag, London You're A Lady etc) should be obvious; hence the title, among other reasons

The paintings are not of The Pogues.

http://www.edgrayart.com/Exhibition2006.htm

It's on for 2 weeks, and tonight there's free drink, so stop by (and buy a print!)

Terrific work. Love the NYC sketches (very Jack B Yeats) and the London paintings which are redolent of Georg Grosz

really good stuff .Did he do the artwork for the recent Stereo MC's album?
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Ah, those paintings are amazing! I wish I lived in London so I could see them as well, envy you guys who do- Atleast this time And in a way my thoughts also went to my next to favourite Yeats brother when I saw the online gallery..

Hellbeard wrote:Ah, those paintings are amazing! I wish I lived in London so I could see them as well,

I wish I lived in London too.

philipchevron wrote:Terrific work. Love the NYC sketches (very Jack B Yeats) and the London paintings which are redolent of Georg Grosz

Thanks, I'll let him know!

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Stereo MCs cover was him. He did thataround 2000, it hung in a gallery in Brixton for a couple of weeks. 5 years later he gets a phone call...

People can see the 2005 London paintings here:

http://www.edgrayart.com/Exhibition2005.htm

2006 should be online soon...

Well worth checking out

http://www.edgrayart.com/


A dozen (loosely) Pogues inspired paintings now on-line




http://www.edgrayart.com/Thepaintings.htm

Plug!

TRANSMETROPOLITAN (YIP-II-AY!!)

New exhibition by Pogues-inspired artist Ed Gray

http://www.edgrayart.com

http://www.gxgallery.com

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& see back page of today's Guardian (Saturday 3 May)

Heather wrote:

Hellbeard wrote:Ah, those paintings are amazing! I wish I lived in London so I could see them as well,

I wish I lived in London too.

Every so often I wish I was living back in London again. Last week's election sort of reminded me that I'm glad I'm not.

But those are great paintings.

Thanks Firehazard. I'll let him know! He'd be here himself but he spends 15 hours a day locked in an old industrial building in Mile End skidding around in paint.

Boris, god help us ...

Transmetropolitan is the default song on my internal jukebox, it seems to strike up in my head on cue when in London and in the last few days I've sat in a rosy park (without VP wine), caught the bus in Brixton (oh the lovely boulevards...). worked in Kings X (what dear old streets..), visited Camden (but saw no poofs outside the Palace), Soho (dreamed), passed along Whitehall (lechers!) and within a 100 yards of the ICA ... and I wish I could say I drank the rat's piss and kicked the shite whereever I went but ... I behaved myself.

Philip, was "Transmetropolitan" a MacGowan coinage?

Oh, to be rich and able to hang several of those in my house. They are stunning.

His website says all the paintings there have been sold (no surprise) but prints are available: All paintings from the exhibitions are also available as limited edition high quality Giclee prints on german etching paper or canvas


Somehow they just sound out of my price range.

Just beautiful, though--thanks, CM!

CM wrote:

Philip, was "Transmetropolitan" a MacGowan coinage?

Hmmm, good question and one to which I don't know the answer. Before Steve Sondheim wrote the titles/lyrics "Send In The Clowns" (1973) and "Everything's Coming Up Roses" (1959), neither of those phrases were in popular use, though they now feel like they have been with us always. I can't recall, when I first heard a white label pressing of Red Roses For Me in the Rock On shop in 1984, whether the word surprised me or not.

Thanks!

Ed heard 'transmetropolitan's an old term used on Chicago public transport but the net doesn't back that up ... But it is a pizzeria in Athens Georgia ...

Funny what google throws up

THE POGUES REUNION

~July 29, 2004~

The Pogues reunite in Maysville , Kentucky ...

(From left to right: Henry E. Pogue V, Henry E. Pogue IV, John P. Pogue Sr., Robert W. Pogue, Peter H. Pogue, and Paul K. Pogue.)



http://www.oldpogue.com/News.htm

Just wondering if anyone else has made Pogues inspired art.

A couple of years ago I mentioned a piece I was working on called "Judgement Dogs: Last Chance at the Gates of Hell", inspired by a combination of "Rake at the Gates of Hell" and Rodin's "La Porte de l'Enfer". The piece was in its infancy at that time and is now complete, exhibited in November and December winning Best in Show (how Westminster!) in the Art Glass Association of Southern California annual event. Here is a link to some pictures on my website. http://www.art-hell.com/Site/Collaborative.html

Cool stuff! I liked the heartshaped thingy