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About Me

I do too much. I spill things. My brain fizzes a lot.ModMySpace Profile Customizer

My Interests

cutting up magazines, London, people watching (actually full on staring is even better), art postcards, Paris, the view out my window, singing old blues songs, walking around cities, camping, reading reading, DJing with a bag of 7"s, ridiculous free drinks things, French clothes, Chess Records and 50s RnB, Bernard Hermann, dirty basslines, Belle du Jour, Don't Look Now, Rear Window, Cabaret, The Conformist, Taxi Driver, Dead of Night, weird interactive things, Greece, wasting time, art!! esp Hans Bellmer, Robert Frank, Ed Keinholz, Jose Parla, Christian Marclay, Goya etc etc, spontaneous days and nights

I'd like to meet:

NO BANDS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
If i know you, I'll add you.

Music:

Television:

Books:

The B Club www.myspace.com/thebclub

My Blog

Listen to my radio show : Friday May 23

I'm doing a record show for Diesel radio on Friday May 23 between 2-3pmListen to it on http://dum.diesel.com/radio or 87.7FMI've been going on about the station all month so was very happy when they a...
Posted by Francesca on Wed, 21 May 2008 12:29:00 PST

Paul Simonon and Cindy Sherman

A couple of pieces on PonystepInterview with artist/musician/bull fight enthusiast Paul SImonon (of The Clash)http://ponystep.com/article.aspx?articleid=31on Cindy Sherman and filmhttp://ponystep.com/...
Posted by Francesca on Tue, 20 May 2008 03:17:00 PST

Berlin biennial

Blogged the Berlin Biennial for Dazed... I wasnt a huge fanhttp://www.dazeddigital.com/incoming/the-2008-berlin-bien nial/
Posted by Francesca on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:37:00 PST

blabbing away about work, street art, innocence, rubbish

I wasn't sure whether to put this up or not... it may be a temporary addition.I did this interview for someone and saw it had emerged online. Its me blabbing away about cultural trends.... http://blip...
Posted by Francesca on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:48:00 PST

Wishy washy watercolour s

in praise of watery paints http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/watercolours.html ...
Posted by Francesca on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:09:00 PST

Identity Theory

The rather great Identity Theory asked me to do an interview with them... http://www.identitytheory.com/visual/gavin_index.php...
Posted by Francesca on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:15:00 PST

End of an era

Very sadly the BBC collective has closed down - but there's an archive of all the art reviews and filmed interviews I (and others) did over the years here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/C54668 ...
Posted by Francesca on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:37:00 PST

TimeOut this week

I wrote some of the cover feature for this week's TimeOut on street art (January 30 - February 5 2008). I did the profiles of CutUp, Caliper Boy, Eine, Adam Neate and Dface - if you fancy a...
Posted by Francesca on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:27:00 PST

Intro to Street Renegades

You can get a taster of my new book here.... http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/2007/10/book_frances ca_gavins_street_r.php...
Posted by Francesca on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:12:00 PST

Style.com Q&A

Short interview with me on Style.com http://www.style.com/trends/blogs/style_file/2007/10/outside r-art.html...
Posted by Francesca on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:43:00 PST