Collaboration with Adrian R. Shaw

Adrian R. Shaw and I have worked together quite a few times but not for a while. In the photo above I gave him photos from weddings I went to which he then turned into paintings. We made a publication called: "That's Andy" (A guide to Warhol). And below is a birthday card he made me for my 30th birthday which recently got exhibited at The Sluice Art Fair.

 Ade and I are both fans of Bryan Ferry. I collect copies of "These Foolish Things" which is an album of cover versions that Bryan released in the late 70s. We're planning to work on the sleeves and present them as a homage.

Collaboration with Stuart Cumberland

I known Stuart for about 20 years and always admired his paintings.

Last week I saw a table that a neighbor had thrown away. The table's surface had been scratched, stained and damaged. I sent an afternoon sanding it down and gave it several coats of primer till it looked nice again.

 I contacted Stuart and suggested that if I brought it round to his studio he could paint on it. He replied "That sounds like a plan."

Stuart examined the table as though he was a vet looking at a sheep. Let's wait and see what happens next!

Collaboration with The Spammed

The Spammed are a supergroup. Each member of the band was hand picked by Harry Pye. So far The Spammed have recorded 2 wild cover versions ("Tommy Gun" originally by The Clash. And "Revolution" by The Beatles.) The line-up is Rat Scabies on drums, Kevin Eldon singing, Neil Innes on Keyboards, Horace Panter on bass, Micko Westmoreland on guitar.

Collaboration with Ruth Binfor

Ruth Binfor is a London based artist working with books to create collage and photographic montages. We've begun work on an A1 piece that is inspired by a famous record label logo. 

Here's a detail...

Collaboration with Barry Thompson

Artist Barry Thompson and I are both fans of this National Gallery painting of Saint Veronica from 1420. Legend relates that when Christ fell as he was carrying the cross Saint Veronica wiped his face with her handkerchief (sudarium). The image of Christ's face was then miraculously imprinted on it.

The saint's name is inscribed on her halo in Latin (Sancta Veronica); Christ's halo has an abbreviated Greek form of his name (ihs.xp.ih.x). Barry and I are currently working on a drawing based on the painting. I'm drawing Jesus and Barry is doing all the tricky bits.

Collaboration with Hugh Mendes

Hugh Mendes has made a name for himself making paintings based on newspaper obituaries.

In Jan 2015 two Police officers Ahmed Merabet, 42, and Franck Brinsolaro, 47, were shot dead by Siad and Cherif Kouachi, during their attack on the offices of French satirical magazineCharlie Hebdo. I asked Hugh to help me make a painting of Ahmed whose death moved me.

Collaboration with Emma Coleman

Emma Coleman and I have known each other a long, long time. She contributed to two shows I curated ("Four By Four" and "100 Mothers"). I found a cartoon of Richard Nixon by Philip Guston. I had an idea we could somehow turn the small b&w cartoon into a large full colour painting. Emma talked about the Frost/Nixon film and suggested we also painted David Frost. I said we could have 2 seperate paintings and then she came up with the idea of the Frost and Nixon both being on a TV screen. Below is a work in progress of the Frost painting...

Here's Emma with the end result...

Collaboration with Astrid Horkheimer

Astrid Horkheimer and I have had fun collaborating on several collages. Including some like the one above that will feature in a promo video for a song by Micko Westmoreland. Recently we made a collage featuring 42 images of Elvis Presley (Sadly 42 is the age Elvis was when he died). The image below is a detail of a work in progress.

Collaboration with Chris Coombes

Chris Coombes and I have been friends for a good 15 years or more. He is a Chelsea graduate, in 2012 his work was featured in The Whitechapel Gallery open and he curated "Video Show" at The Fuction Room in Stoke Newington. A few years back I was invited to curate a group show for The Deptford X Festival. The Mayor of Lewisham came to open the show and we posed next to my Tin Tin in Deptford painting...

Cheeky Coombes saw the photo on Facebook and swapped my face for The Mayor's which resulted in this masterpiece:

Collaboration with Luke Gottelier

Luke Gottelier and I have made several works together including this painting which was made with acrylic, oil and ties.

Collaboration with Brian Griffiths

Brian Griffiths sat and answered 42 of my questions during a long train journey to Blackpool.
Harry: What is your idea of beauty in nature?
Brian: "Something between a robin standing on a sparkling snow covered log and a clown falling over."

Collaboration with Caroline Jupp

Caroline Jupp is the co founder of The Library of Unwritten Books. Library of Unwritten Books is a collection of possible books that began in 2002. Short interviews are recorded with people about a book they dream of writing or making. Limited edition mini books are published from transcripts of the interviews, which are made available to readers at exhibitions and special events. Touring book-boxes also display the books at everyday venues such as cafés, pubs, libraries and launderettes. The books are collected through random encounters in parks, city streets and public places, and by invitations to visit literature festivals, public libraries and community centres. People are prompted to spontaneously record their unrealised ideas, fictional tales, and personal histories. There is no selection procedure and all contributors to the library receive a free copy of their own unwritten book. The collection is evidence of the common desire to write a book and is an ongoing survey of this literary phenomenon.

Caroline and I have been talking about doing an event based about our Dads. The 23rd of April is when World Book Night takes place. We're planning an evening in which we do readings from our father's favourite 42 books.  

Collaboration with Ed Hill & Jacob Louis Beaney

Jacob Louis Beaney runs a fictitious museum and has self published books of his cartoons and poetry. Ed Hill was born in 1989. His paintings recently featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries at The ICA in London.  Ed, Jacob and myself are all fans of Cool Hand Luke (a 1967 film starring Paul Newman). We're planning to collaborate on a comic strip version of the movie. I made 2 very rough drawings this morning...

(Above: A scene with "Alibi" played by Ralph Waite and Below: Harry Dean Stanton a.k.a "Tramp" singing to take his mind of things)

(Below: a drawing by Jacob: "What we have here is a failure to communicate.")

 (Below: a drawing by Ed Hill of Paul Newman as Cool Hand Luke)

Collaboration with Marcus Cope

Marcus Cope is a painter, curator and co-founder of The Marmite Prize. A poster of our painting The Four Tates has been exhibited in Pimlico tube and featured on the cover of the Tate Enterprises staff handbook but the painting itself has never actually been exhibited anywhere.

Each square is based on the collections of a different Tate (Modern, Liverpool, St Ives, Britain). This is what it looked like in the tube station a few months back...

Collaboration with Blacklist Editions

Blacklist Editions are a London based screen printing company run by Jonas Rannson.

Jonas and I will be working on a Warhol inspired print based on a photo of me dressed as Elvis Presley (who died at the age of 42). Below is a photo of Jonas at his studio helping Gordon Beswick and I hold a print we made for Elefest.

Collaboration with John Moseley

"Warhol's Superstars" by John Moseley and myself is quite large: 182cm wide, 91cm high. As you can see in the photo below we've barely half completed this painting of Gerard Malanger, Brigid Berlin, Ingrid Superstar, Ultra Violet, Viva, Baby Jane and all the other Factory regulars.

In 2003 John and I made edited a publication called "Pippa: The Magazine for Depressed Women, published by Men". We launched it at The Flacca gallery in London and The Permanent Gallery in Brighton. I also appeared in "Tummy Bug" a film that John wrote and directed in 2004.

Collaboration with Liz Murray

Liz Murray completed her MA Fine Art at Chelsea in 2005. She was the recipient of the Red Mansion Art prize, which took her to Bejing in 2006. Recent exhibitions include 2010 ‘Pack of Fifteen’, Lucky Strike, London, ‘Is Mary Here Again?’, 2009 Waygood Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne; 2008 ‘Terminal’, Tate Britain, London; Jess Flood-Paddock / Liz Murray’, Standpoint Gallery, London. Murray has been selected for a 3- month residency at Futura, Prague to explore the transformation of the Golem from Jewish myth to city souvenir emblem

Liz Murray and I have begun researching each other's roots. Liz comes from Southall (in Ealing, West London) and I come from Lewisham (in South London). We plan to make maps of each other's childhood homes. It's likely that the maps will be made slightly in the style of Outsider artist Howard Finskter.

Collaboration with Sarah Sparkes

Sarah Sparkes is a talented artist and curator I've known for quite some time. And it was the exhibition Sarah put together on her 42nd birthday that partly inspired me to do this project We collaborated on a painting before...

We're currently working on a painting of rock musican/author Julian Cope visiting Stonehenge.  (While Sarah has been doing her research) I recently tried drawing him... more images to follow soon.

Collaboration with Elsa Tierney

Elsa Tierney is an award winning jewelry designer. A few years back she generously gave me a birthday broach...

Her attempts at capturing my sensitive features impressed me and so I was delighted when she recently agreed to work on a series of new broaches with me. (Images to follow soon)

Collaboration with Kate Murdoch

Kate Murdoch's practice is centred around a lifetime collection of books, clothing, found images and objects both from her own life and from the lives of others. (www.katemurdochartist.com)

Kate and I are working on collecting and presenting "42 Objections of Affection". Our cabinet will feature objects connected to couples, places, religious idols and pop memorabilia. This is how it looks so far...

Collaboration with Bob & Roberta Smith

Bob & Roberta Smith is standing against the Tory M.P. Michael Gove who tried to take art off the school syllabus. Our collaboration is likely to feature Gove who I've already had a go at painting...

 

Collaboration with Fanny Janssen

Fanny Janssen is an artist who also teaches at St Martins and writes for Laissez Faire magazine. We're both fans of Cindy Sherman and plan to pay tribute to her "69 Untitled Film Still" series from the 1970s. Below are 3 images from our first session. It would be nice to exhibit 42 images - each the size of a passport photo. Like Sherman's series, Fanny will appear as made-up people in scenes that could be from a film. I will be taking the photos and supplying the make-up, clothes, wigs and props. 

Collaboration with Tinsel Edwards

Above: Tinsel Edwards is holding some Harry Mermaids paintings which she intends to work her magic on. After Tinsel graduated from Goldsmiths she helped set up The A-Side B-Side gallery and Pushing Pussy records. We've also discussed the possibility of making a large painting of New York bands that played at the legendary CBGB club such as Richard Hell, Blondie and Talking Heads.

Collaboration with Mel Cole

Mel Cole recently graduated from Chelsea collage. She and I have worked on several drawings together. The one above reminds me of Liz Fraizer of The Cocteau Twins. I photographed the drawing badly and then had to play with it on photo shop. I've always liked Andy Warhol's early drawings and think Mel's bits have captured some of that style. Below is another work in progress...

Collaboration with Mikey Georgeson

After leaving Winchester Art School and coming back to London in 1995 I became a big fan of a group called David Devant & His Spirit Wife. I'd go and see them in venues near Charring Cross rd such as The Buffalo Bar, The 100 Club, The 12 Bar Club. The band's lead singer (Mikey Georgeson) wore a wig that was the same as his real hair, a white suit with a Playboy badge and would often do magic tricks between songs. I attempted to paint him years ago but gave up. A few days ago I decided to invite Mikey Georgeson and Gordon Beswick to help me make the painting better...

Within 2 hours the painting improved a great deal. Gordon added curtains and Mikey painted in more of a crowd and added speakers. The painting is going to be dedicated to The Buffalo Bar which is sadly being threatened with closure.

Collaboration with Erica Macarthur

Erica and I are making 42 handmade birthday cards together....