Subtle and subdued lighting at ‘Cambridge Galleries’ Just a quick entry for now (being a little tipsy, you see)… Tonight’s Cambridge Galleries Private Viewing of the Cracktown v1.0 Tour went really well. Very positive. Found myself in full conversation/guided tours with visitors for around 4 hours – a lifetime record of non-stop talking for me, […]
YOU +1 ARE INVITED TO THE PRIVATE VIEWING OF THE CRACKTOWN v.1.0 EXHIBITION Private View from 6.00pm – 9.00pm, Thursday 16th April Brutal landscapes and works of industrial decay at Cambridge Galleries April 15th – May 5th Cambridge Galleries invite you to Phil Barrington’s new show ‘Cracktown v1.0’, with the Private View on Thursday 16th […]
…Or scraping the barrel? [“Enter Here (Widescreen) + Revision”. 2007 & 2009. Part of an irregular series of unseen shots and unuseable images from Cracktown v1.0’s cutting room floor]
Monday 23rd Feb So, the King’s Lynn stop of the Cracktown tour has ended, and I’m catching up on all the little things that have piled up on my creaking and spluttering back burner for the past 6 months (that is, before the promotional campaign for the Cambridge show in April picks up). The first […]
21st February “Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen”[I always loved that deeply emotive and epic M*A*S*H grand finale] Time to pack up and leave town, I reckon. I decided to conduct a last-minute experiment, leaving the Gimp Sandwich Board™ in the gallery cupboard throughout the final day to see if the absence of that free-standing street advertisment […]
18th February The artist Andy Stringer came back into the gallery for an extremely interesting, and ultimately humbling, discussion and critique about my work in general, and the Cracktown v1.0 blog world in particular. Thank you Andy for the time and consideration you took in evaluating my work, and for your almost-stream-of-consciousness printed essay. The […]
14th February My god, today has been busy at the gallery. Not complaining. Saturday 14th Feb; the busiest day yet, and I haven’t talked to people as much in my entire life before this week. I’m now going home exhausted each night as a given. Its great people are interested in my work, though, with […]
This is the trailer for Phil Barrington’s Podcast #1 [Feb 2009]. Shortly before Christmas, Phil Barrington took over King’s Lynn’s Duke’s Head Hotel with the town’s own Steven Pottle, artist and poet extraordinaire. Together they embarked on hours of discussion, drinking, poetry readings and assorted tomfoolery. And Phil recorded the event. The full Steven Pottle […]
12th February 2009 So, mid-week through my invigilation of the first stint of my Cracktown gallery tour and I’m completely bowled over. The response from the public to my work has been unexpectedly astounding. I’m getting a fair few people coming through the door, all of which have gone on to view my entire collection […]
9th February 2009 Sitting cross-legged for 60 minutes next to a well-dressed man, who’s wearing a gas-mask and black gloves, was not how I originally planned my first morning of the exhibition, but the EDP photographer wanted it, so… Not many people ventured out to the show before the opening event at 6pm (I’d forgotten […]