Traction

I've just done an interview with Traction Magazine. Topics covered include derelict buildings, experimentation and bowls of fruit. The interview is online at http://tractionmagazine.co.uk/post/70388802120/mark-beldan

Served

I have a work in the First Come First Served exhibition at the Lion & Lamb Gallery. The show runs until the 11th of January.

http://lionandlambgallery.co.uk/?page_id=12

Lion & Lamb
46 Fanshaw Street
Hoxton
London N1 6LG

Dials

City Park, 2013

I have a few images in issue 29 of Five Dials, along with a short interview about painting, imagined depravity and net curtains.

http://fivedials.com/fivedials

Site

Another Camp, 2013.

Cut

There will be a closing party for the DKUK show at Ancient & Modern.

Friday 30 August 2013 from 6pm

Ancient & Modern

201 Whitecross Street

London EC1Y 8QP

dkuksalon.tumblr.com

Soirée

I've collaborated with Toby Ziegler on a playlist for the Cafe at Camden Arts Centre. The Shadow of Your Dog will feature unlikely French songs- cockney chanson, francophone doo-wop, post-punk cabaret, St. Tropez disco. Come along if you can!

Wednesday 21 August 2013
7-10pm

Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road
London NW3 6DG

http://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/eve-nh-15

Psychic

Below are a few photos of the paintings as they were installed at Amatorska for the Psychic Freefall exhibition. Many thanks to Agnieszka Szczotka for taking some of the photos, and to Agnieska and Marcin for all the work they did to make the show happen!

Basement, 2013 and Owls, 2013

Basement, 2013

Corner, 2010 and Hedge, 2012

Corner, 2010, Hedge, 2012, and Fence, 2013

Fence, 2013

Houseplant, 2013

Cut

A few views of the day at DKUK.

Reading material in the waiting area.

Hanging sculpture and wallpaper by Toby Ziegler. Collage elements and haircut by Daniel Kelly. Afternoon movie by Douglas Sirk. Model: Nerys Mathias. Dysfunctional soundtrack not pictured.

Salon

Another Rose, 2013.

On August the 2nd, I will be creating a one-day project, Only Your Hairdresser Will Know, for Daniel Kelly's DKUK pop-up salon at Ancient & Modern Gallery in London.

The day will be a celebration of fraught home situations and difficult living arrangements. Expect a soundtrack of pop music's most dysfunctional domestic dramas, a stack of tell-all waiting-room literature, and more.

In the centre of this maelstrom will be Daniel Kelly- artist, qualified hairdresser and sympathetic listener.

Come and get your hair cut. It's safer than staying in!

12-8pm Friday 2nd August

DKUK: A Pop-Up Pen and Pencil Salon
Ancient & Modern
201 Whitecross Street
London EC1Y 8QP
Appointments: 07866 809 813 dkuksalon@hotmail.com

There will be a series of artist projects, changing daily, running until the 31st of August.  The preview for the salon is the 1st of August 6-9pm.

Check http://dkuksalon.tumblr.com/ for more details.

Freefall

Owls, 2013.

I'm putting together a small solo show, Psychic Freefall, at Amatorska, an exhitition space within and throughout a flat in New Cross.  A group of new paintings will be insinuating themselves within the domestic surroundings. 

The invite image and information:

Opening reception
Friday June 28 2013

29 June - 14 July 2013
by appointment at amatorska@live.com

Amatorska
54b Waller Road
London SE14 5LA

http://amatorska.tumblr.com/

The exhibition text:

Oh, for a cheerful room, a room without malice or discord. Perhaps a room painted yellow- not a cloying or sickly yellow, not the yellow of jaundice or of piss, but a happy and sunny shade.  The walls will be clean, free of stains from leaking pipes and sprayed cooking fat.

The deep bay window will allow in light and air, but never burglars or the nightly swearing of ill-tempered neighbours.

The windows should be hung with patterned curtains that delight and fascinate but never oppress. They very definitely must not look like the window dressing of a bankrupt business or a condemned hospital. They most assuredly will not have brown stains, and they should not smell of smoke or last week's soup.

By the sunny, breezy window there shall be delicate little chairs. Pretty pieces of furniture too charming to ever be thrown or broken in anger. Perhaps a comfortable sofa with all its cushions intact, not slashed or burned or spilled upon.

The room should be filled with houseplants that are a pleasure- a complement of happy flowers to enjoy air and sunshine with!  Plants that never drop failed leaves and infertile blossoms all across the clean floor. Plants that never mysteriously die despite constant attention. Plants that never linger on as a perpetual, barely-alive disappointment.

Then- down a substantial but not overwhelming number of steps, and out through a very simple but very secure door- a garden! Not a dark and dank place where odd things lurk, neither should it be barren and exposed and sun-stricken. Ah! Could it be arranged that the tops of the trees and bushes be trimmed a centimetre or two every few days?

Flower

Rose, 2012.

Park

City Park, 2012

Another Secret

I've made another record sleeve for Secret 7" this year.  The show will be open for viewing in Shoreditch on the 13th and 14th of April 2013, and all the sleeves will be on sale on the 20th and 21st of April.  All profits will go to Art Against Knives.

Come down and see if you can find me!

Mother London Biscuit Building
10 Redchurch Street
London E2 7DD

10am - 6pm

More information:

http://www.secret-7.com/