ren spits at magpies

• 2013-05-19

  …the only reason i got married was because it was illegal, i proposed to him!”
  “did you get down on one knee?”
  “no. i don’t do knees.

  — Alice Walker on Desert Island Discs. Absolute heroine. 

• 2013-05-15

  Give Us A Smile Love (cardboard reflective version) 2013

  Ren Aldridge

  BOOM

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  Artists statement for degree show catalogue

  “I consider my practice as an artist in the widest sense, encompassing activism/ organising, event planning and music alongside more traditional mediums such as sculpture, installation and performance. My work often involves collaborating with others, either as an organised group or in the creation of participatory work. The project I am presenting at Goldsmiths BA Fine Art degree show 2013, entitled ‘Give Us A Smile Love’ incorporates a large public sculpture attached to scaffolding, a platform with performances and events timetabled to take place on it, a mapping project connected to activist organisations concerned with street harassment, and an installation centred around the notion of kitchen table organisation.”

• 2013-05-07

  go past the cemetery, up the track, through the hole in the fence, up the stairway to heaven and drink an apple juice. if its particularly sunny take a snickers ice cream bar. oooofff. 

  the other day me joe crywank and poodle went and played some songs up in joe’s secret place. watch the playlist to see everyones stuff. this is my one. i was going to call it run but it sounded waaaay to coldplay. so i called it ‘don’t date musicians’, for innumerable reasons, the main 2 being that 1. you will have songs written about you and 2. we are all egotistical melodramatic over-sensitive fools..

  your face is strange when you’re asleep/ the crinkles round your eyes smooth out/ you’re ageless/ and far from any ground that we’ve both walked

  you got your sights on the farthest lands/ behind which the sun rolls where we can’t see/ you got your dreams in another place/ no potential in this time or in this space

  and i know you’ll run/ and that i’ll stay/ build what i can with what i have cos darling that’s my way/ and i wrote this song on your guitar while you were chasing trains

  i got my sights on a fallow land/ the sun rises and it sets upon my kin/ not all my dreams feature your face/ you’re not the only man to make my heart race

  and i know you’ll run and that i’ll stay/ build what i can with what i have cos darling that’s my way/ and i wrote this song on your guitar while you were chasing trains/ i know you’ll run and that i’ll stay/ oh i wrote this song on your guitar while you were chasing trains/ i don’t believe there’s answers out in some other place

  so when you run/ and if i stay/ then i’ll play this song on my guitar and think of you old flame/ and hope that you find answers in someone elses face/ but most of all i hope you find somewhere that you feel safe. 

• 2013-05-06

  

  GO SEE THESE PEOPLE ON TOUR.

  monika helped me make the poster look all profesh. i think we will team up for posters from now on. 

• 2013-05-01

  

  #fit #tankgirl #goggles

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  Two letters! And they spell the name of the first band I was ever in. And we were #metal wooaaaooo. #metalwork #welding

• 2013-04-26

  

  I got plans #giveusasmilelove #gertbigsculpture #publicart #sculpture #streetharassment #hollaback

• 2013-04-24

  

  New #nailart this ones called tiedyingshitpurplethendoingmetalwork #superdupersexynails

• 2013-04-22

  

  Cosmic #tiedye attempt 1