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CAMERA SQUAT ART SMILER
Go Smiler’s. Kings Cross. Tenement squats. Full scenic Oliver Twist look. Smiler and camera. I stay my girlfriend’s squat. Sex.
Smiler photographs staff at an early London McDonalds, High Street Kensington.
Seamus Luttman-Johnson dead. Mark Greaves dead. Sean Cooke dead. Mark Golding dead. Little Kevin dead. Soph Berens dead. Dan-I and I help carry Chris Cowen’s coffin. I go to funeral of Dan-I. Dan-I’s and my old friend Jake le Mesurier dead. Jake’s mother is Hattie Jacques. Sunday lunch roast with Jake, Hattie Jacques and drugs.
Age thirteen/fourteen I take LSD, Kensington Market, LSD lost soul horror.
Seamus, Schoolhouse Squat, Shepherds Bush Road (circa 1981-1985). ‘Seamus glancing back over his shoulder. . . like a farewell’. Smiler, 2015.
1976. I go Hornsey Art College. I start buying Art Monthly. Smiler goes Hornsey 1978. George Younson head of Fine Art. Used to teach John Lennon in Liverpool.
Diane Arbus.
Thatcher, Shirley Porter, 1970’s feminism. Space Invaders. Stupid table tennis game in pubs. TV adverts for Hofmeister and Carlsberg lager. Pre-HIV/condoms.
Thatcher heroin less a sub-culture, more and more on the streets.
Originally published by Sorika on the occasion of the exhibition Smiler: Photographs of London by Mark Cawson, 12 Oct – 29 Nov 2015, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Curated by Gareth McConnell and Matt Williams.
