![]() Given how often we denizens of the 21st century have trouble getting humor from less than a century ago, it feels satisfying indeed to laugh just as hard at these drolleries as our medieval forebears must have - though many more of us surely get to see them today, circulating as rapidly on social media as they didn’t when confined to the pages of illuminated manuscripts owned only by wealthy individuals and institutions. Then, of course, we have the bunnies making their attacks while mounted on snails, snail combats being “another popular staple of Drolleries, with groups of peasants seen fighting snails with sticks, or saddling them and attempting to ride them.” We see this in the Middle English nickname Stickhare, a name for cowards” - and in all the drawings of “tough hunters cowering in the face of rabbits with big sticks.” In 2011 Spike did a full time one year MA in performance and visual practice at Brighton University and passed with a Distinction in 2012, and currently practices as a full time artist, holding exhibitions and travelling to Japan in 20.This enjoyment of the “world turned upside down” produced the drollery genre of “the rabbit’s revenge,” one “often used to show the cowardice or stupidity of the person illustrated. ![]() As well as supporting artists such as, Charlie Murphy and Brian Catling. Spike then got accepted to do a three year degree in Fine Art at Kingston University.Īfter graduating in 2010 Spike attended various live art workshops at Toynbee studios in London supported by Arts Admin who ran funded weekend workshops. In early naughties after a series of a diverse range of employment, an opportunity rose for spike to return to education, where in 2006 he did a foundation in the arts at Kingston University where he met his collaborator the artist, photographer, performer, poet, director, fishmonger and Shaman Alex Chase White. Since 2014 he has lectured on how artists respond to the effects of the Japanese Tsunami. Spike self-funded a one month residency in Japan on April 25th to May 23rd 2015, where he travelled from Narita to Gifu, Kyoto, Hiroshima, (Rabbit Island to do a performance with the rabbits!) and then returned to Tokyo and Sendia one of the affected areas of the Japanese Tsunami in 2011. He is self-funded, self-motivated and proactive in the arts. Spike does not receive any funding or support from art organisations or Lottery Funding or even Arts Council Funding. Spike practices as a Live art performance artist, he is also a maker and creator, working with film, video, photography and carved wood paintings. IA is an autobiographical exploration of the stratification of personality, work in progress since November 2013. Spike is currently working on a body of work called "Introspective Archaeology" This is a one-day special event, worth seeing, an opportunity to bring the kids, big kids, grand kids, family and friends to discover well known painters and their paintings through the eyes of the rabbit, with a quiz and an opportunity to draw your own portrait. ![]() White Rabbit has been photographed with the likes of Joe Brand, Paul O’Grady and the mayor of London Boris Johnson. He spends his creative time painting and eating chocolate.Įaster is time for the bunny to get out and display his talents, normally seen on a green Japanese bike cycling through the village to amusement of the public he certainly can bring a smile to your day. White Rabbit is an existential, nomadic, narcissistic flaneur, who has travelled all over the world and spends every first of the month sitting on a wall near the river Thames in Barnes greeting people heading off to work in the early hours of the morning. Its Easter and the white rabbit is in abundance with creativity, surrounded by chocolate eggs and paint brushes, a unique one day performance/exhibition. When you arrive at a pink house at number 70 Barnes High street, as you enter through to the hall at the back you will encounter a make shift burrow, in the centre of the room you cannot help but notice a large white rabbit painting by an easel! Around him are paintings of Picasso, Van Gogh, Gainsborough, Bacon, Grant, Wood and many more, then you realize they are all off the white rabbit.
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