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Jessica Harrison. Ceramic ladies in traditional poses demurely reveal their insides
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why not tissue growing
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my soggy lungs and the meat around my ribcage.
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by Trevor Brown
born london england - went to school - went to art school - worked in design studios - worked in advertising agencies - freelance illustrator - very boring - till… 1985 begin publishing photocopy booklets of ink drawings with titles like graphic autopsy, necro porno and abused images in editions of around 100 copies …or sometimes only half a dozen - distributed via the underground “industrial music culture” mail order network - work inspired by novels such as jg ballard’s crash and the french bazooka productions artist collective 1991 growing interest in japanese art/culture and correspondence with masami akita, noise musician, sm writer and director / cameraman for kinbiken - also important career motivating friendships formed with french artist romain slocombe (the pioneer of “medical art” - a significant mentor) and william bennett (leader of the notorious electronic-noise band whitehouse for whom i illustrated a number of cd covers) - begin airbrush painting 1993 first ‘exhibition’s held during fetish nights at the mythical torture garden club in london - frustrated with the repressive state of england, move to tokyo with teddy bear artist konomi izumi (aka hippie coco) 1994 work published in numerous japanese magazines - infamous disemboweled jesus painting for deicide’s once upon the cross cd - birth (pioneering!) of the now widely imitated “baby art” artistic direction mixing images of dolls with previous less innocent interests 1995 contribute regularly to the japanese uncompromising art / eros / grotesque magazine too negative and first major exhibition at ng gallery formed by the too negative editor - start self-publishing colour post card sets 1996 publication of my first book (hear no, see no, speak no) evil by ng gallery, a full colour hardback limited to 1000 signed and numbered which sells out within six months thanks to a bit of tv coverage 1997 first book with my major publisher editions treville (pan exotica) 1998 first american exhibition held successfully at the merry karnowsky gallery, los angeles - birth of the baby art web site 1999 collection of black and white works published including many (embaressing) early works 2000 a gradual shift toward oil painting 2004 publication of li’l miss sticky kiss which i (alone) consider one of my finest achievements 2006 second reprint of my most successfull book my alphabet 2007 publication of rubber doll, a popular return to earlier fetish themes - and self-published babies book as a lavish box set 2008 copyright theft issue with immature pop band crystal castles 2010 trevor brown’s alice book well-timed to cash in on the year’s alice fever
