'Phil Myatt' zine

A zine about Phil Myatt, best known for setting up ‘Mothers’ club in Erdington in the late 60s, using the photos, anecdotes, and recorded conversations I gathered from/with Phil when I was researching my ‘A Real Rock Archive’ project…

…such as when he ran a nightclub in Spain in the 60s and a bunch of key players from the England World Cup-winning squad turned up and he convinced Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst to play on his club’s football team in a beach football match against a rival nightclub the following weekend (I have a photo of this team as evidence).

First Phones...

A list of the moment a mobile phone first appears in popular TV programmes from the 90s and 00s i.e.

The Sopranos - S1 E07

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - S4 E08

First Words...

A list of the words spoken by the first woman to speak in any film, and the time at which these words are spoken in the film. (This could be broken into decades as a series of mini-projects).

Possibly written/printed as a list.

Possibly compiled into a zine.

Wal Goch

A wall made entirely from old house-bricks found in the River Taff.

Margate t-shirts

A series of printed t-shirts that reference the key businesses of my Margate youth (most of which aren’t there anymore), in the way people covet vintage stores selling old American utility workers shirts etc:

Brandybucks, Martell Press, The Kent Hotel, Pisces, The Cottage, Franks, Thorleys, Club Caprice, The Golden Curry, The Ship Inn, The Nayland Rock, Baba Kebabs, The Badge Shop…

Immigrants t-shirt

A t-shirt boldly stating ‘IMMIGRANTS’ on the front of it, with illustrations of key/essential plants and vegetables now grown/growing in the UK that were imported from elsewhere.

A Repurposed Statue

The world is in a constant state of upheaval and in recent years we’ve seen various uprisings and societal collapses. What often goes along with that is the destruction of public statues and monuments representative of a formerly oppressive regime.

Statues tend to be heavy things, so when they’re not being dragged into Bristol docks, they’re often dismantled using cranes.

I’ve often been struck by the powerful images of statues of dictators being removed from their plinths, hoisted high in the air, by a chain round their neck. There’s something very brutal and precarious about this image - like a metaphorical lynching of the oppressor.

For this work I propose a temporary (could be permanent) public sculpture that consists of a removed-statue, hanging by a chain round its neck, dangling from a crane.