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LAYLA SPENCE

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About Me



i am an artist, of some sorts. i also like reading. books. pORTSMOUTH BASED. But really I live in Gosport . I started up the Poor Artist Club and finally started being pro-active. I have only had two people come up to me and say 'do you mean poor in quality', both of them ugly, both of them abstract expressionists. I do not like them. i am expected to go mad and/or be a drug addict, but i expect a bit more of myself. and those of you who haven't seen me in ages, i weigh 8 and a half stone (lets never speak of it again) THE POOR ARTIST CLUB APPOCALYPSE "SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BLACK EYE SMILING" Artist collabiration cross-continental between Australian artist Damien Lasaration and English artist Layla Spence. Video by Lasaration. Music by The Red Host (Spence). Song contains samples of "The Weekend" by Dustin and Garret and "Bamboo Bangaa" by MIA.

My Interests

making the beasts with two backs. ART. writing. making music under the name of THE RED HOST.

Music:

The Kills We Smoke Fags Selfish Cunt The White Stripes BEIRUT patrick wolf THE SPUNGENETTES klaxons dreamburger (PITBULL TERRIER PITBULL TERRIER) M.I.A. The Red Host.... the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Movies:

a bout de souffle un chien andalou Hedwig and the angry inch orphee

Books:

A Season in Hell by Rimbaud, Remainder by Tom McCarthy, Warhol (from the Tate Modern exhibition), Ted Polhemus' Street Style, Nausea by Sartre, various issues of The Face before they stopped it, Tank "pOLITICS" BY aDAM tHIRWELL "A Rebours" by J-K Huymans, JT LeRoy

My Blog

ART FOR SALE

Each piece is £35. For postage, please email me ast [email protected]. "VV" 2006 Indian Ink on cartridge paper Framed: 40.6cm x 32.8cm (16in x 13in)   "Mimi" 2006 Indian ink on cartridge p...
Posted by LAYLA SPENCE on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:24:00 PST

CRITICAL ANALYSIS CROSS CONTINENTAL

So this artsist from Australia called Damien Lasaration asked me to write a thousand word critique about a piece of this art work, in exchange for a personalised postcard. So I wrote this: "Disarm" by...
Posted by LAYLA SPENCE on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:38:00 PST

THE POOR ARTIST CLUB SHOW

Yes, I can confirm that there will be a Poor Artist Club show. In the Eldon building on the Fine Art hall way. Yes, sounds small, but it is a start! And it's a pretty decent space, be better then what...
Posted by LAYLA SPENCE on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:29:00 PST

FUCK 'THE ARTIST WAY', YOU SUCK!

yeah so i brought a book to help me get out of my creative funk; its called 'the artists way', i can't remember who wrote. i read the first bit, did what it said, wrte down those stupid 'morning pages...
Posted by LAYLA SPENCE on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:08:00 PST

things and things and things

this blog has no point, I've just been thinking, maybe listening to too much Beirut, repeated "lon gisland", and i've been trying to think of my new art project. site-specific, what to do for that? do...
Posted by LAYLA SPENCE on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:36:00 PST

Poor Artist Club

POOR ARTIST CLUB   The Poor Artist Club is a response to criticism and the sense of injustice you feel when you're told what you aspire to is wrong. When they tell you to go for the easy option a...
Posted by LAYLA SPENCE on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:39:00 PST

Art? what is it good for? absolutely nothing

so, the art work problem i have... been thinking of dressing up as a soldier, for metophoric reasons you must understand. not litteraly i ain't fighting no particular cause, except my own. none of tha...
Posted by LAYLA SPENCE on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:31:00 PST

I actually painted a picture today, the first one in 4 months!

yeah decided i was gonna dress up like tracey emin for my work, because most people i have asked think i'm gonna end up like her (smashing bottles against simon mainly). so i got a picture of her with...
Posted by LAYLA SPENCE on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:43:00 PST

stupid lyrics

don't you just hate those writers thats lyrics sound like a pile of shit, like reallly bad messy shit. like all heart felt rubbish, "blah blah oohhh he left me...", i mean SHUT UP! your all crap fuck ...
Posted by LAYLA SPENCE on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:40:00 PST

message for megan...bree tells lies... my art project...

well, my art project is basically about autobiography, thats the official title. i'm doing it about my future and what i want, and don't want out of my life. i dressed up as jolene because i don't wan...
Posted by LAYLA SPENCE on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:40:00 PST