Footnotes: the emerging artist
Coming full Circle
1. In my twenties I worked in the City, and I had the super ‘glam’ role of promoting a leading British container shipping company. I wined and dined top shipping journalists and persuaded them to dedicate decent column inches to the cause. Meanwhile, my friends went to art school and university and became artists, filmmakers, and journalists, and I continued to smile – so much my (PR) face cracked.
2. I didn’t even know what a shipping container was, when I first started. However, back in the late sixties and seventies, container shipping revolutionised the way cargo was shipped and did away with the corruption, smuggling and pilfering, by providing a secure and efficient way of shipping goods round the world – until, later, of course, when criminal gangs begun to ship people.
Last week, a new gallery called: ‘cartel’ opened in a swankily chocolate-brown-painted container at The Old Police Station in New Cross. Well I never ….. The containers also function as artists studios.
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