Author Archives: Shaun Caton

ASSEMBLAGES

L st and foound

A large, battered looking envelope, thudded through my mail box and I noticed a San Francisco stamp mark. Opening it, I discovered 10 articles of bisque porcelain in the form of ‘Frozen Charlottes’, manufactured sometime between 1850-1920…

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NEW COLLAGE WORKS 2019

Lets Talk About Art 49 x-39 cm 2019 The Dancing Bird of Olmec 50 x 89.5 cm 2019 OSPITA 50 x 100 cm 2019

IL GIARDINO GROTTESCO – PERFORMANCE

The 58th Venice Biennale Palazzo Pesaro Papafava (Alive in the Universe) June 2nd 2019 Photographs by Julius G. Beltrame

Germination of an idol: Reflections on animistic totems in life and art

I would like to introduce you to a friend who lives in my bag. She’s actually a London stone, picked up off the street. You see, she looks a bit like a person and some think she resembles an owl. I take her everywhere with me. Visitor to the London Tribal Art Fair, 2017.

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New Collage and Gouache Works July-August 2017

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For Old Times’ Sake

Three hour performance at the Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, County Kerry, Ireland, July 30th 2017. Photographs by Alan Landers.

magic edge

Birthday poem for Caroline Wiseman, 2017.

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Grottesco

In my lifelong hunt for the grottesco – I have travelled far and wide, both physically as a sort of acquisitive eyeball, or as a metaphysical tourist, and mentally, in my daydreams and reveries.

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rainschemes for insomniacs: a kitchen stink drama

Shaun Caton and performers in part 3 of his epic performance, “rainschemes for insomniacs: A kitchen stink drama”, produced by the Pacitti Company for SPILL Festival of Performance 2016. Taxidermy specimens kindly displayed by the Ipswich Natural History Museum collection. Photographs copyright 2016 by Julius G. Beltrame.

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