Turner prize won by Martin Boyce- What do you think?

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Permalink Reply by Ben Allen on December 5, 2011 at 21:24

Most excellent !!  Thats two old drinking buddies, who have won ! (the other .....Douglas Gordon !!)

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Permalink Reply by Bronagh Lawson on December 5, 2011 at 21:30

Ben you cant get away that easily, details we want details. Where and when?

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Permalink Reply by Ben Allen on December 5, 2011 at 22:06

Glasgow 1991

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Permalink Reply by Bronagh Lawson on December 6, 2011 at 10:20

Ben details I want details.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Allen on December 6, 2011 at 10:43

When the M.A. kicked off in Belfast many students from Glasgow school of art came over to Belfast.

I think they were all taught to be amazing as many are now high profile working artists and quite a few were nominated for the turner prize including Christine Borland.

Before artist run gallery / group Catalyst there was  Transmission Gallery in Glasgow, so the ever changing management were these art superstars in the making .

Mark Pawson & myself proposed & got an exhibition at transmission & i then lived in Glasgow for a few months & this involved a lot of drinking , street market hunting, nightclubbing (Sub Club) socialising & exhibitions in peoples houses.

I looked after the gallery show a few days a week & on my day off a TV film crew filmed a rock group playing using our work as a backdrop, may have been Franz Ferdinand ? I missed the entire thing!  This was in the days before mobile phones !!!

Martin Boyce & Ross Sinclair were part of this scene & wanted to be doing what Mark & I were doing & Later Ross, Mark and myself had a show in Catalyst when it was upstairs in exchange place, it was called Art Zombies, i got to design the poster which was printed by Ross & then pasted up all over Belfast, we covered the floor walls and ceiling with stencil t - shirts spray painted umbrellas, skateboards, junk sculpture , photo copy art and big screen prints on tarpaulin, one of which was of Bobby sands which was sold to a lady who once went out with him !

Another notable group show at Transmission was The Festival of Plagiarism, where i met sex Pistols designer Jamie Reid, for this show i travelled to Glasgow on my motorbike which was parked in the gallery for the duration, a few visitors said it was the best "art piece" !

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Permalink Reply by Bronagh Lawson on December 6, 2011 at 13:22

Ben do you have any pictures these are great memories.?

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Permalink Reply by Ben Allen on December 6, 2011 at 14:31

Yes, i do, but i have to get away from the computer & make stuff to sell ......im at st. georges market this sunday, monday , tuesday & wednesday !!! & the following week, sunday, monday , tuesday and wednesday too

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Permalink Reply by Bronagh Lawson on December 6, 2011 at 15:51

ok x. but you cant work all the time x

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Permalink Reply by Peter Richards on December 7, 2011 at 16:44

Art Zombies was an excellent show ... I think the first show that I saw in Catalyst

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Permalink Reply by Ben Allen on December 7, 2011 at 18:15

Thanks!  We pulled out everything for that one!

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Permalink Reply by Bronagh Lawson on December 8, 2011 at 8:54

ben when you get a minute we would love to see photosB

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Permalink Reply by Ben Allen on December 10, 2011 at 1:54

Ross A Sinclair, Martin Boyce, Mark Pawson  & Euan Sutherland is in the foreground

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