We, at The Stove, are delighted to be working with Bill Drummond on the Inbetween:Dumfries project......but what, pray, is 1) the man himself actually going to be doing?.....and 2) who does Mr Drummond actually think he is? :
Answer 1)
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Why Andy Warhol Is Shite
In 1973 Bill Drummond was coming to the end of his first academic year
at Liverpool School of Art. He was studying painting. He loved painting. He
wanted to spend the rest of his life painting. But something was troubling him.
He thought even if he became a successful painter, even a great painter, all it
would mean that his paintings would hang on the walls of a rich man apartment
in New York.
The young and idealistic Drummond instinctively felt that this is not
what art should be about. He put down his paint brush, walked away from the
easel and out into the streets of Liverpool, in the hope that he could discover
a way of making art that… The rest of his professional life to date has been about
trying to work out what the “that” might be.
Some months before he laid down his paintbrush, he had visited the first
Andy Warhol retrospective in the UK. It was at The Tate (Britain). The
exhibition had blown him away. But over the next twelve months what had
initially done the blowing, began to trouble him. The troubling progressed to
the point that he thought what Andy Warhol represented was everything that was
wrong with Art in the world at that time.
All the first year fine art students were expected to write a 4,000 word
history of art essay on a topic of their choice. This essay was to be handed in
by the end of the first academic year. Although he had a title for the essay he
was unable to put any more than a few unconnected words on the page.
Most of the several hundred thousand words that Drummond has written and
published since the summer of ’73 have been a continuation of this uncompleted
essay. What he hopes to present in Dumfries will be 45 minute performance
lecture based on where he is at with the essay at the moment. The working title
is, as it was then, the now rather naïve Why
Andy Warhol is Shite.
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| Mr Drummond standing in the Penkiln Burn (nr Newton Stewart) with a salmon and bluebells |
Answer 2) Bill Drummond's life - here
You can be part of the audience for Bill's lecture 'Why Andy Warhol is Shite' by coming to Greyfriars Church (DG1 1DF) at 6pm on Thursday 8th November (free).
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