He took his time walking around the room, touching clothes and trinkets, tasting water from the the bedside glass.

Pulling back the covers he slid into the bed, faced outwards towards the rising sun and allowing his right hand to to push aside his shirt and touch the place a bullet would would be, Robert thought about what such a scar would feel like under his touch. Lifting his left hand to the light he thought about what it would look like to be missing half of one finger.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Directed by Andrew Dominik

Paintings: Our Bullet Wound 2012, Destined For Great Things 2012, Robert At blue Cut, The Crooked Picture 2012 all oil on found post card, 11.5x17cm

I have started a new blog. After my last post on The Reside Residency I realised that I have enjoyed having an extra place to post things, less formal, may make less sense. Anyway, it can be found here.

Curated by Porter & Jenkinson
The Portico
Manchester
3-29 February 2012

Pictures from the Private view on my Flickr here

Ben Rothery, Alice Pattullo, Alice Bradshaw, Corinna Spencer, Amy Louise Nettleton, Abigail Drumm, Andy Clark, Amanda’s Autopsies, Lisa Temple-Cox & Anne Barclay, Paulina Sandberg, Abraham Emajaro, Kirsty Logan, Andrew G Magee, Jane Hoodless, Jake Tyas, Liam Smyth, Amanda Nicole White, Abigail Betton, Kirsty Greenwood, Fiona Birnie & Kevin Broughton, Laura Deane, Lucy Freegard, Oliver Flude, Russell Mountford, Alison Craig, Hannah Elizabeth Allan, John Brewer, Julia Hembrow, Paul Imrie, Rebecca Key, Rhiannon Moxon, Elizabeth Willow, Tony Richards, Gwilym Hughes, Claire Batt, Damien Woolliscroft, June Kingsbury, Ellie Tarrat

I am very pleased to be taking part in Curious Pursuits and exhibiting paintings from The Beautiful Sideshow. Private view 2nd February 6-8pm

Painting: Destined for great things 2012, oil on found post card, 11.5x17cm

The new issue of my Zine is available from Transition Gallery here. Each copy of The Collector: Moss Haired Girls has a pull out and keep original and numbered drawing inside.

The James Gang committed over 25 bank, train and stagecoach robberies…from 1867 to 1881. But except for Frank and Jesse James…all the original members were now either dead or in prison..So for their last robbery at Blue Cut…the brothers recruited a gang of petty thieves and country rubes…culled from the local hillsides.

Look at those fools. They’re gonna trip and shoot each other into females.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Painting: Robert at Blue Cut 2012, oil on found post card, 11.5x17cm

The picture’s awful dusty. Something began to change in Charley’s stage portrayal of Jesse. His gait seemed more practiced. His voice was spookily similar to the man’s. His newly suggested dialogue was analogous…to a script Jesse might have originated. He began to look at his younger brother with spite…as if he suspected that in some future performance…he might present himself to a live cartridge in Robert Ford’s gun.

Murderer!

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Painting: The Crooked Picture 2012, oil on found postcard, 11.5x17cm