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it's been a while...

2012-01-10T22:00:00.004Z

End of the Road

2011-09-22T22:25:00.003+01:00

I went to End of the Road festival, it was very nice.

Rivers and Mountains

2011-09-22T21:44:00.007+01:00

Some pictures mooching and canoeing around Hay on Wye and stomping up the up the Brecon Beacans.

Between a caves open eye and the seas hammering touch

2011-09-11T11:27:00.000+01:00

Animals that live in Wales

2011-06-28T21:12:00.003+01:00

Recording with H&E

2011-06-28T21:04:00.005+01:00

Been recording with the boys...

ATP

2011-06-28T20:58:00.003+01:00

Few photos from an old rubbish 35mm point and shoot camera that I kept in my pocket whilst mooching drunkly round ATP curated by Animal Collective.

Haunted Forest

2011-05-03T23:45:00.008+01:00

These are the photos i took for the deep into the woods exhibition, they are real, these all exist!

Deep into the woods (set up and opening night)

2011-05-03T23:13:00.008+01:00

Just got back from Bristol having helped set up, get drunk and DJ at this ace little exhibition, it's on for a few weeks, ace people involved, Deep into the woods, go check it out!

I went to the Haunted Forest to take a few photos for this show, we met some of the inhabitants!

Welsh hipster

2011-04-15T23:32:00.003+01:00

Phone pics I took in wales, couple of nice ones.

Wales

2011-04-15T23:19:00.007+01:00

I seem to be spending a lot of time in the Welsh borders...

Epping

2011-04-15T23:06:00.004+01:00

Photos of trees in the forest

Ewenicorn

2011-04-15T23:03:00.002+01:00

Pictoplasma

2011-04-15T22:39:00.009+01:00

This is my finished Totem pole, Moondog, riding the shoulders of Ralph Stanley, with bells on! Just finished exhibiting in Berlin as part of the totem character show at Pictoplasma festival. Hopefully coming to a gallery near you soon!

Character Totem

2011-03-16T23:05:00.008Z

Did this live draw event in Bristol couple of weekends ago, three cities, one day live draw in each, culminating in an exhibition of all the totems at Pictoplasma in Berlin! I decided to make mine into Moondog riding the shoulders of a little old man. Was ace fun, met some nice folk, another show organised by the lovely inkygoodness ladies. These pics are work in progress during the day, finishing touches to be added so more pics coming soon, check out the inkygoodness blog for more pics of all the events too!

Bothering Butterflies (and Lizards)

2011-03-10T23:23:00.007Z

Took my friend Zara and my new lens/camera set up for a spin to the Stratford Butterfly Farm, give it a good try out test run, here's what happened...

Toy lens

2011-03-01T01:07:00.004Z

a few test shots with my new lens

I saw a ghost

2011-02-27T20:56:00.002Z

Moody Malverns

2011-02-22T01:27:00.005Z

One of my favorite days out is a Sunday mooch around the Flea market in Malvern, walk and a pub lunch. Here's a few shots on a recent grey misty day doing exactly that!

Culture Label

2011-02-21T23:55:00.003Z

Got this image for sale on this jazzy website through the work i have on visual and something to do with the own art scheme.

Charlie Parr

2011-02-20T21:00:00.002Z

Went to see Charlie Parr play and filmed this song, ace gig, top gent!

Charlie Parr from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

Modart

2011-02-15T00:17:00.004Z

Modart is a great magazine run by very nice people, i contributed a doodle of Bill Hicks a while ago now for an article in the magazine and amazed to see it turn up again in there new hardback "best of" art book. Lot's of friends been featured in the magazine over the years and nice to see them all represented in the book too, plus my fried Jo writes for there blog, support them and go buy it!

Christmas Walk

2011-02-09T11:13:00.000Z

christmas day 2010 from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

A Snowy day Christmas walk with my digital Hedgehog.

Birmingham/Bristol/Berlin

2011-02-07T20:07:00.003Z

Been invited to take part in this show, painting a Totem pole! (red Indian wolf t-shirt wearing opportunity i think) Live drawing event in 3 UK cities, I'll be heading to the Bristol one, then the lot getting shipped to Berlin for the Pictoplasma festival, awesome stuff and big ups to the Inkygoodness girls!

Birdbrains

2011-01-27T01:06:00.002Z

A little sketch I did, trying to draw with a brush. I also realise I ripped this idea of at least 2 people.

Straight8

2011-01-19T12:19:00.004Z

Don't think I ever posted this, this is an old film i made with my friend Prime objective for the Straight8 competition.

watch it here, Fidget

Wistman's Wood

2011-01-12T23:05:00.005Z

Visited these amazing ancient woods on Dartmoor, like an eerie film set. Just still getting used to my new camera and messing about with the white balance setting for tungsten/fluorescent light etc, by setting it "wrong" for outdoors got some great colour accidents, pushed a bit in photoshop, hey presto, psychedelic album covers!

Family Portraits

2011-01-12T21:33:00.004Z

A collection of hipster family portraits that I'm fond of, if only i'd used a real camera.

Teignmouth Pier

2011-01-10T23:59:00.002Z

At night with no tripod

Dartmoor

2011-01-10T23:05:00.007Z

For New year I went to visit Mr.Peplow again, went for a walk on the misty moors with nature adventurer, photographer/film maker and guide Rob Darch, very atmospheric and a bit surreal.

Snow Way

2011-01-10T22:18:00.006Z

OK so i got a new camera, the new Olympus Pen, ashamed to say I've gone digital! Initial practice shots on a Christmas day walk in the very cold deep snow around my folks neck of the woods, nice.

Super Sonic

2010-12-13T18:27:00.003Z

Health and Efficiency 'yesiwalkalone' at Supersonic 2010 from GaryRadar on Vimeo.

This is a live film of Health & Efficiency (that i'm a member of) playing at super sonic 2010, put together by the talented Mr. Radar, can't find his sight but he's done some amazing vids for copter and black mekon in the past, check em out!

old half film

2010-12-02T21:29:00.010Z

Summer!

Chinese New Year (in Manchester)

Malvern Ghosts

There are spuds in the floor!

Hanna & Barry's Cornish wedding adventure

Logfest

Berlin

Just got a bunch of film developed and scanned, spanning about a year or so, the joy of my little half film camera is that i use it sporadically so you get a wonderful miss matched visual diary of overlapping events and days out over I think maybe year and a half? Great getting the negs back and looking at them thinking, when was that, then realising, reminiscing and feeling all warm and smug, especially looking at summer fun times during the coldest December on record! I've roughly cobbled these together to different places/events so they make some kind of sense.

Click on image and zoom in to have a good butchers.

Fame Film

2010-10-04T22:31:00.004+01:00

Fame Festival from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

A little film of my travels to Grottaglia, Italy for the Fame Festival. More footage of the place than the art, oh well.

Fame Festival, Grottaglia

2010-10-04T21:25:00.013+01:00

Tagged along to Fame festival with the Beat13 crew, this is the third year Lucy has been involved and she done us proud! The Festival and town are absolutely amazing and i cannot recommend it enough if you fancy an arty farty bit of sunshine fun times. Great weather, some of the loveliest people I've met and the food was so good I doubled in size in one week, lent a hand grabbing a hammer and putting some wonky nails in the wall too so earned my keep! The town itself was beautiful let alone all the cheeky interventions and house sized doodles dotted about the place. As usual I took way too many photos, these are just a selection from the old hipstermatic nonsense, got a few rolls of film to develop too which I'll one day get round to scanning and posting on here.

check it out here FAME

Met some of the loveliest people ever from all corners of the globe, here's a bunch of links to all there skills;

Jessie

Eric

Escif

kristofoletti (check out the amazing mural he's just done on the Hadron super collider!)

and should probably include this beauty made at an abandoned monastery on the edge of the town for last years Fame fest, genius;

combo

And here's a review of all the shenanigans by another nice lady we met.

Songs without words, trees without leaves

2010-08-31T23:30:00.013+01:00

OK how to start, this has been one of the most difficult pieces I've made in a long time, not technically but because of its personal significance, I got a little obsessed over it. It's finished and on the gallery wall but it's still bothering me and I feel in needs a full explanation, so here goes.

The work is for Inkygoodness 4 with the theme and title of play; i had an idea for this show and had kind of started on it when I received the terrible news a very lovely friend, Arina who had tragically been in a coma from a road accident the week before, passed away, absolutely heartbreaking, words cannot describe how to react to something like that and somehow it seemed fitting to make this piece a sort of tribute to her and to honour her memory.

So this then lends a huge weight to the work to make something worthy and tasteful and not self indulgent, over sentimental or cliche, finding the right subtle and tasteful signifiers and symbols, my concern is that I'm not using this to give my work gravitas but make the piece a heartfelt sign of respect.

My initial idea around the theme was based loosely on the music I love to play, a folk art piece about traditional folk song, traditional instruments and the history of this music.

So being that Arina was from Latvia, a country i visited in 2003 and was made to feel very warmly welcome by it's lovely inhabitants, I began to explore and research it's musical and folk heritage, as a tribute to her, her friends and family and her beautiful homeland.

I discovered a wonderful bit of Latvian cultural history and the remarkable work of Krišjānis Barons, father of the Dainu Skapis - Cabinet of Folksongs, he collected and collated traditional Latvian folk songs, written up on tiny slips of paper, preserving a rich cultural and national heritage , previously unrecorded to any significant scale.

So I created my own mini "cabinet of folksongs", using found objects, weathered wood, images and relics that related to my thoughts, emotions, ideas and memories.

To make mine relevant I used snippets of lyrics that I related to, most i was listening to whilst making it and things just jumped out, bits of contemporary song, 60's hippyfolk and old traditional songs. I used some American folksongs some of which are believed to have routes in Europe, being that America is founded on a settled immigrant population. I liked the significance of this, old traveling tales brought from the homeland and the mixing of folklore and heritage.

I took elements of Latvian culture, the national bird, the White Wagtail, which again has links to Latvian folksongs, my quoted take on this being "little birdie", some embroidery designs, badges, buttons, photos of the frozen Baltic sea in spring, trinkets and treasures, things that reminded me of my Latvian friends, past, present and missed.

A lot of my work is about nostalgia and i suppose none more than this, it's a cabinet of memories as much as songs, to be passed on like all those folk tales, I guess my idea is that to honour someone is to remember them and pass on there stories. This is my attempt to remember a lost friend and pass on her story, so many people I've spoken to are saddened by the tragedy but i hope you can take this and use it to cherish what you have and realise how fragile we all are.

All proceeds from the sale this work will be going to Arina's family, and i would also like to dedicate this to Ieva.

more jarheads

2010-08-23T23:49:00.001+01:00

Made another one of these for my friends birthday...

Decked Project

2010-08-17T14:58:00.005+01:00

Skuitar from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

I was invited to submit a piece to this skate art exhibition. I've done a bit of painting on boards over the years so fancied setting myself a challenge, combining some of the other loves of my life, thus the Skuitar is born...
Decked Project

Decked Project online

2010-08-15T23:56:00.003+01:00

Here's a pic i borrowed of me playing the skuitar on the decked opening night. Seems to of proved popular!

modart

imagecore

surely?

Berliner

2010-07-30T01:08:00.004+01:00

Berliner from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

This is a holiday film I made whilst grumpily mooching the streets of Berlin, doing my usual obsessive filming and ignoring the Misses. I had a nice time really and i put it to music so it seems i had some sort of plan to my filming, which i rarely do. We came across some ballet dancers in one of the big train stations which was rather lovely and surreal.

Harry

2010-07-30T01:01:00.002+01:00

My friend Harriet is making some pretty tidy art these days (tribute to Harvey Pekar above) and did a really sweet post about my birthday card so spreading the love, check out her blog

Health & Efficiency online!

2010-07-20T10:40:00.003+01:00

wow we finally have some tracks up on the interweb, check them out here!

Fern Hill

2010-07-20T10:28:00.001+01:00

Fern Hill from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

This is another little film i made with my Harinezumi whilst mooching through the Welsh borders. Bit of Dylan Thomas messing about with narrative again.

Not My Hype

2010-05-17T11:20:00.005+01:00

Name check in the Creative Review thanks to this little exhibition I was involved in. Blogged about it the other week, seems to of had some good feedback and attendance, let's hope it gets touring to a gallery near you.

Home from the Sea

2010-05-13T11:44:00.000+01:00

Home from the Sea from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

Coco

2010-05-05T00:07:00.002+01:00

Bristol Day Trip

2010-05-04T23:56:00.006+01:00

We went to Bristol for the day, here are some iphone arty farty pics of my friends and stuff what we saw.

Deckades

2010-05-04T23:45:00.005+01:00

Went to Bristol to check out this exhibition at Howies, basically a museum of Skateboards from the past, plus some nice hand painted boards by a selection of talented hands, including a few mates of ours and outcrowders. They had my first board, Vision Psycho Stick, circa "88 and still rolling...

Not my Type

2010-05-04T23:40:00.002+01:00

My Friends put this exhibition together of all the letters from the Alphabet, plus a few extras, each artist does a letter, I got the letter "R" for Roper, an ode to 80's skate graphics, Radical!

iphone & cornwall

2010-04-21T22:23:00.009+01:00

I recently succumbed and got me an iphone, much as i hate digital photography it has a sweet analogue camera app, some of the images are uncannily close to some of my Holga shots so fair play Apple. Anyway took it for a test run to fill it with sand in Cornwall, here are the results. Err did a lot, photos are of B&B cats and daffodil fields, St. Micheal's mount, St. Ives, Lost gardens of Heligan, Polzeath, Port Isaac, Padstow, Betty and things along the way.

Electric Eskimo

2010-03-31T23:04:00.003+01:00

Not done much for a while, finally finished a new number I've been messing about with for ages called Burn it Down, it's a 2 part track with a noisy bit, think H&E are influencing the Eskimo! Also uploaded the soundtrack piece i made for 2010 film, called the Beetles 3rd. check them out here.

the zoo the zoo in 1972

2010-03-22T23:34:00.002Z

we went to the zoo, my camera is not new, so the photos look like 1972.

london again

2010-03-22T23:18:00.004Z

Another weekend in the smoke...

H&E

2010-03-01T21:47:00.001Z

H&E test from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

health&efficiency

secret library

2010-03-01T21:33:00.005Z

holy shite I made new work! Portrait of John Steinbeck painted/scribbled onto sewn together pages from old books for secret library exhibition.

Brighton and Bristol

2010-03-01T21:10:00.008Z

I recently passed through Brighton and Bristol on a road trip. I took some photos.

tjb the end

2010-03-01T21:08:00.001Z

we finished the joyful bewilderment now.

The Joyful Bewilderment from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

2010

2010-01-06T12:38:00.004Z

the first day of 2010 from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

Another little film with my favorite camera, new years day walk on the beach with good friends Mr. Peplow and Miss Tyndale. Saw the new year in down south and went to see the sea at Buldleigh Salterton in Devon. This is the first film I also made the soundtrack for.

Eden Project

2010-01-03T21:39:00.002Z

Eden from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

Here's a little film I made whilst visiting the Eden Project. It is a nice place, you should go there.

Christmas day 2009

2010-01-03T21:35:00.002Z

Pitt Rivers

2010-01-03T21:24:00.004Z

ANTHROPOLOGY AND WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY. Pitt rivers museum

Winter Woods

2009-12-18T11:19:00.001Z

winter woods from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

Me and my friend Emma went for a walk in the woods to test my harinezumi camera. We came across a length of wool, disappearing off the path into the trees. Emma began to follow the thread and untangle it as she went, wandering deeper into the dark depths of the woods. Eventually it led us to a clearing to discover a strange and magical festive surprise...

Vancouver

2009-12-08T00:05:00.007Z

Recently went to a Capsule birthday gig featuring Lightning Dust, members of Black Mountain and Pink Mountaintops of which I'm rather fond of. Also coincidently friends of friends in Vancouver, who i visited about 4 or 5 years ago. I was looking for a pic for a submission and found this lot of said trip so thought i'd sort through and bung a load on here. Vancouver is fun and they are nice there and make damn fine music.

may cottage

2009-11-27T00:46:00.001Z

This is where I grew up...

cheer up

2009-11-26T00:11:00.003Z

I was listening to sad music on a dark stormy night this week and drew this chap in my sketchbook. Cheer up little fella, it'll be ok.

some old pics of hong kong

2009-11-25T00:23:00.004Z

The Ballad of Jed Clampet

2009-11-25T00:18:00.004Z

Realised I have not drawn for a while, now the nights are dark its time to stay in with a sketch book...

Hedgehog & Efficiency

2009-11-09T23:35:00.007Z

Here's some pics I took with my new favorite camera at our last band practice. We recently played this gig which you can check out here. Health & Efficiency web site coming soon...

hedgehog in London

2009-10-27T23:19:00.006Z

Just scored one of these harinezumi cameras thanks to Lee going to Japan, test run on a holiday to London with Stef, my new favorite toy, amazing little camera! The old men are from a brilliant installation at the Saatchi gallery.

Hong Kong

2009-09-23T00:22:00.005+01:00

Hong Kong from Lawrence Roper on Vimeo.

I Just put this together with some bits of footage I found buried in my hard drive. Filmed on a basic digital camera a few years ago when i was in HK for Christmas. I am a stern believer in analogue, beauty is in the imperfections; i love old cameras, i still use film, play real instruments and prefer vinyl records. Using a low res shitty camera, which gets wonderfully confused trying to focus and get the exposure right and cheating with a few after effects I'm quite pleased with the results. I had a bunch of Lomo photos i took at the same time so tried to create a sort of cross processed film/super8 style version in video. I got the idea from this, the first as far as i can tell lo-fi digital camera, currently only available in Japan it seems.

GreenNan

2009-09-15T01:06:00.002+01:00

Every Summer we go camping in my Nan's field and this is the poster i made for this years trip.

Pinhole

2009-09-15T01:00:00.002+01:00

Some messing about pics trying out my Lomo Pinhole camera, got the Accordion from a flea market and its bloody lovely.

Health&Efficiency

2009-09-15T00:04:00.006+01:00

We finally took our latest musical interlude out of studio4 and played to a few friends in the Ideal ramp space, fun little gig, more coming soon...

Credit to Steve for pics

Barcelona Half Film

2009-09-14T23:57:00.003+01:00

Finally got round to scanning in these from my trip to Barcelona with the girls earlier this year, film wanders through Devon and Brum too with a few pics from the line steppers show.

Supersonic09: shred the shed

2009-07-28T23:00:00.006+01:00

This year for Super Sonic the Outcrowd decided to have an exhibition in a shed, which seemed a slightly silly idea so we did it. Dismantling, building and moving sheds is hard work but think it was worth it. I made some new jar head pieces for it, which seemed to go with the shed theme but realised its a total Barry McGee rip off, oh well, they still looked nice.

Coke/Olympics 2012

2009-07-21T22:33:00.009+01:00

2012 London Olympics / Coca Cola : Custom Board Presentation from Simon Peplow on Vimeo.

These are Dan Magee's pics and sweet video of what i done for Cola and the Olympics. The brief was set by a company called Egg Strategy from the States. Via Dan, Myself, Vaughan Baker, Si Peplow and Arran Gregory where selected to hand customise 23 decks in 24 hours for the Coca Cola and Olympics 2012 Activation board. Day one we where pampered at the snazzy Mother marketing agency in trendy East London, doodling away through thunder storms till very late! Day 2 a slightly jaded presentation at Cokes head office in Hammersmith, but a steady flow of free pop soon got us buzzing and twitching into action.

TJBristol

2009-07-20T23:50:00.009+01:00

Took the TJB to Bristol, showing at the delightful Here gallery, another good turn out, met more lovely folks. Ended in one of the most funny restaurants I've ever perused. Bristol is great, lets all move there. Looks like it could be on for a few months so check it out if the ques are too long for Banksy. Think i mostly stole Rob, Lee and Hollies photos, thanks.

supersonic09

2009-07-20T23:46:00.002+01:00

time for some shed building ...