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Ella Guru

'You're weird' - Quentin Crisp

About Me

  • See some of my pictures along with some fabulous pictures of and by Mr Joe Whitney in the Tropics of Cancer Art Gallery .
  • Paintings about dance on LondonArt.co.uk : from ballet to burlesque, some great 21st century paintings - including mine!
  • Postcard Art in the USA, the Ming family are exhibiting their first ever FAMILY piece, a contribution to The Arts Upstairs Mail and Female postcard Art show. We won't be there but Jowe Head will be, so go along and check it out!
    artsupstairs.com April 19 - May 11.
  • Sexton, Ella and Lucy are contributing to Music Therapy secret postcard art sale - so if you want to buy an original postcard by one of us for the bargain price of £35 (all proceeds go to the charity), go along and find our pieces - all anonymous so watch out or you might get a Tracey Emin by mistake, thinking it's Lucy's! http://www.musicastherapy.org. This postcard sale is in London, by the way - Postcards can be viewed in person at the launch and Reception at Gillions Art (495 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 4LW) on Friday 16th May from 6:30-10pm. Presales viewing will be on the website from Thursday 15th May. http://www.musicastherapy.org

    • My Interests

    Stuckism, painting, guitar, cycling, scuba diving, going to burlesque shows, masked balls and Gypsy Hotel

    I'd like to meet:

    Like minded surfettes, trannies, and daubers. A man who will cycle around London in a rubber dress, as I very unfortunately, very sadly, broke the last one...

    Ella Guru talks about why she paints drag queens. Video by Carol Lynn.

    Music:

    I play surf music. I listen to the Tigerlillies, Nigel Burch, Bishi, Anjali, the Dead Brothers, Scott Walker, Yat Kha, Natascha Atlas, Temple of Sound, Naked Ruby, the Urban Voodoo Machine, The Tropics of Cancer (Who I used to be in), Japanese Intelligence Mind Control, and lots more. See my band page, the Deptford Beach Babes for music info...

    Movies:

    none recently...Pervirella in the past, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Heathers

    Television:

    Lost (until Virgin cancelled Sky), Desperate Housewives, Heroes

    Books:

    "Domestic Duck and Goose in Colour", "Between a Rock and a Hard place", Biography of Edith Piaf

    My Blog

    Angelica Kauffmann

    I have done an ink and watercolour sketch based on Angelica Kauffman's 'The Artist hesitating between the arts of Music and Painting', from 1791 or 1794, which was in turn based on the Judgement of He...
    Posted by Ella Guru on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:45:00 PST

    Rome travel diary

    I finally finished my Rome travel diary, 2 months late. Start here and click through to the four days' of Spinal-Tap like rehearsals, running through ruins and undressing angels....
    Posted by Ella Guru on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:55:00 PST

    Postcard secret charity sale, and postcards in the USA

    Paintings about dance on LondonArt.co.uk: from ballet to burlesque, some great 21st century paintings - including mine! ...
    Posted by Ella Guru on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:20:00 PST

    Photos on Flickr

    hereon Flickr. Cos i'm too lazy to put them on lots of places like my space, facebook etc..and while you are there, Rome pics too:RomexxE....
    Posted by Ella Guru on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:14:00 PST

    New stuff on www.ellaguru.co.uk

    www.ellaguru.co.uk and www.ellaguru.org.uk are now the same. There's the entry in the Leiden show (electronic collage! not painting!), the new Bishi painting, photos from 100 guitars in Rome (links to...
    Posted by Ella Guru on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:21:00 PST

    Photos from the new camera (Lumix)

    Here's one of Ane Angel at January's Opium Den, being used on the flyer for Feb's Opium Den. (If you like the sound of Opium tea, check out the details on the flyer and go along) And here's Suri Sumat...
    Posted by Ella Guru on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:28:00 PST

    RIGHT now i am really on the verge of giving up this myspace shit

    RIGHT now i am really on the verge of giving up this myspace shitI know this is meant to be some kind of great networking tool but today i have had 2 close friends post comments 'go look at this hot ...
    Posted by Ella Guru on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:24:00 PST

    READ THIS if you wanna be my ’friend’

    Right, i am fed up with Myspace, it is so f*cking slow, i can't look at most people's pages without the mouse spinning and spinning. sorry to sound like a dick but i just don't have time to wait for a...
    Posted by Ella Guru on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:45:00 PST

    The new default picture IS finished

    The new default picture IS finished - but I can't update the caption on a mac and can't access this site from a PC at the moment. Really annoying. Not only is it finished but it is sold!E....
    Posted by Ella Guru on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:10:00 PST

    To new friends

    I've just mass accepted all friend requests. Some were from people I know and want to be friends with . Others had nice profile pics. Others, I have no idea. But I was feeling friendly. BUT, if you sp...
    Posted by Ella Guru on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:25:00 PST