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Materials….@matthew.collings_

I use coloured pencils and small bits of paper but I think of what I do as paintings. Pencils allow me by some kind of superstitious childish primitive pseudo rule to paint. As it happens I do also paint with real paints but I feel the drawings are the furnace. All power comes from them. I use a children’s oily crayon called Woody Stabilo as well as the basic pencils – which are usually Faber Castell.

I think of something and draw it any old how. And then I keep going utterly abstractly until there’s a visual powerful logic. I ask Emma Biggs if something’s working and if she says no I keep changing it and I often have to rely entirely on her to pull something through. Sometimes I don’t even think of anything, I just draw an eye and it could be male or female.
I sometimes use my phone and look at photos and I sometimes don’t. I never look at It for Philip Guston.
I really do feel he looked like I have been drawing him for five years now. He’s become my invention.
The materials and my manipulations of them are everything.
I happened by luck to have always had an audience for these drawings and I was able to open the door to a flood of endless content because of the response of that audience. What it liked I did again. And again and again. On the other hand now I think about it, it liked everything, so I don’t know if it really meant anything at all to have it. But I know they’re all out there and I’m grateful to them. They’re my materials too like my memories are materials and my nervous system is a material. ‘

1. I heard Mark Gardiner CEO of the community security trust, which is supposed to protect everyone from antisemitism , on R4 news lying outrageously about the pro-Palestinian demos-saying totally crazy stuff about the illegitimacy of Jewish protest against Israel.

2.How art goes wrong. J J Charlesworth art world luminary in a desert of values having another pint of nuance, somehow always concludes Israel should not be criticised.

3.The usual tropes for de-legitimising criticism of psychotic sadists murdering everyone.

4.Stop Art-World Zionists
Mike Bloomberg, art washing Israel supporting billionaire, former Mayor of New York, chucking tens of millions around in the UK art-world-& JJ Charlesworth, art intellectual who sneers at the left for criticising Israel-both bathe in ideology at the bloody Frieze art fair.

5. Lisa Nandy lies

6.Support Bob Vylan, he is an informed & truthful chanter.

Many thanks to Matthew for the work and the text.
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