popular culture

Margate t-shirts by Mark Gubb

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…

Who Needs Enemies... by Mark Gubb

Every episode of the US sitcom ‘Friends’ recategorised to describe what the episode truly contains, using the established format description of ‘The one with…’

Such as…

in S2E10 - The one with Russ - Monica begins dating ‘Fun Bobby’ again and the gang realise he’s an alcoholic (hence why he’s so much fun). So they convince him to stop drinking and he becomes boring, so Monica breaks up with him.

So, ‘The one with Russ’, gets recategorised as, ‘The one with judgement of an alcoholic’

Blackboards by Mark Gubb

Fill a room/gallery with blackboards, so it looks a bit like an exhibition of Joseph Beuys blackboards from his lectures, but the diagrams on the blackboards are copies of blackboards from scenes in films, such as when Lieutenant Harris is writing on a blackboard in front of the new recruits in the first Police Academy movie.