WHAT IS CROYDON SHARED?
An online archive of work from Croydon residents to capture life in Croydon post 23rd March 2020. Lockdown has impacted our lives and we want to collect these experiences and document them on our Instagram. Be it a photo, drawing, painting or poem, we are calling for you to submit your work to share with us here on Croydon Shared.…
“Who am I? Where do I come from? How do I a non-European relate to European society I find myself living in but do not belong to? How do I react to it’s assumptions of white superiority?” – RASHEED ARAEEN
I came across Karachi born, London based artist Rasheed Araeen and his work last year after exploring the wider spectrum of British Art.…
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So imagine…my show done, then Banksy turns up in the Endz…
I popped over to the space opposite Surrey St Market one night where Banksy had a full on installation titled ‘Gross Domestc Product’ – it’s raining, it’s mucky, but then you really want to digest the artworks on show, but this bloomin’ rain, it’s kinda crowded still, people aint rampin’, eff the rain, I take some pics, then this happens STORAGE FULL, I delete some pics to take new pics, then this happens STORAGE FULL, I delete more pics, to take new pics, AGAIN STORAGE FULL…it’s raining, this is long…CRISIS AS USUAL…I leave, I soaked up some of the work at least…*Shout out to a guy named Stuart whom I got to take the shot of me on my phone with the STORAGE FULL sign when the idea hit me…
I came back the next day and took more pictures, but the whole thing was more of a vibe at night tbh…hope you managed to catch it, such a sick concept, and to think I literally cancelled my gym membership at the Pure Gym above only 3 months ago, and saw that space derelict beneath from way back…Big up Banksy!…
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4 months later…THE BIG PEEL…
My first ever designed polyester wallpaper, printed on the largest sheets ever, was actually inspired by the print on Abigail Owuo’s (Stormzy’s mum) dress she wore in the portrait of them two (shot by Olivia Rose after Stormzy gave a talk at Oxford Uni) – Big up wallpaper wizard Colin for helping me realise my vision of a wallpaper / space representing a mother’s wall to wall love…
Think wallpapers are gonna be my thing now…yep
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