When you attend what I would call
a 'rock 'n' roll event,
you get a lovely vibrant crowd
of people who are fans, people who just will
stand in this room and look around and take
everything in and enjoy art. Whether it's
photography, or whether it's pieces of art
they will come here and just soak it in and
enjoy it. I think that's what you've been
able to create today in this room, so it's
a great pleasure to be here and also stand
by this which, spookily matches my jumper.
Well I've been working on a David Bowie project,
collecting the handprints
from a hundred musicians
who've worked with him over the years and
we're doing this big mosaic panel so we're
creating his sort of biography out of handprints.
It will be a 6ft round disc this is a two
year project but so far the enthusiasm and
the diversity of the people from the theatre
world to photographers to musicians to fashion,
I can't imagine any other musician would have
such an interesting background.
I hadn't actually realised
how much of Bowie's
artwork there was
I'm just such a big fan
so to actually see his work and the photography
is amazing because I just relate it to every
bit of Bowie music and it just gives it that
little bit more roundness than just being
a flat piece of work so oh my god it's the
best, I'm telling all my friends when I go home
It's been an absolutely brilliant, brilliant
evening. Met some fantastic people and the
art, well what can I say? The art has been
amazing.
So we're completely like imbibed in Bowie
here,
what an incredible artist and my major major passion
is spirituality and tarot cards
and he's done the Major Arcane series which
inspired all these works on the tarot cards I mean of course he has, he was ahead of everything.
We've got the music going on, we've got extraordinary food,
we've got an extraordinary set up, it's totally him. I love it.
