I play guitar, korg synthesiser and sing in our band Strange IdOLS. I make paintings.
Artist David James Smith (not to be confused with the deceased sculptor of the same name) takes simple things and transforms them into fluid, abstract pieces of vivid beauty. He produces his superglossy paintings by building up layers of household paint, resulting in undulating, seemingly poured waves of haphazard, bright colour. There's something naïve and childlike about his palette, evoking penny sweets bought at funfairs; Smith himself even relates gloss paint to Play-Doh. This is the debut solo show from the Camberwell graduate/Strange Idols garage rocker, but its polish and gloss befit a far more established artist. (FG)
- Flavorpill review 2006
What do you do if you wanna go loo in the English Country Garden?
Pull down your pants
And suffocate the ants in the English Country Garden
Get a little spade and bury what you made in the
English Country Garden
Dig a little hole and fertilize a mole in the English Country Garden
*Reveal your tush and go behind a bush in the English Country Garden
Crouch in the mud and make a loud thud in the English Country
Garden
Make them hold their noses when you duck behind the roses
In the English Country Garden
With a bit of toil you can add to the soil in the English Country
Garden
With 16 toots you can kill off all the roots in the English Country
Garden
With a little squeeze you can murder all the weeds in the English
Country Garden
Do a little poo and the snails can chew in the English Country Garden
Cause a bit of trouble and do it in the rubble in the English Country
Garden
The flowers'll think you're class when you show them all your ass
In the English Country Garden
It's coming out the back, in the paving there's a crack in the English
Country Garden
Dump in the flower bed or maybe in the shed in the English Country
Garden
Look out for the nettles when you're watering the petals in the English
Country Garden
Leaving muddy puddles can get you into trouble in the English Country
Garden
Pooing can be fun in a garden in the sun in the English Country Garden
